Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when painting mostly runs to stale geometries, pop playthings and optical gimmickry, an artist who tackles the image of man with originality is a rare figure. Such a man is Britain's Francis Bacon, but it is unlikely that his portraits will ever hang in any corporation board room. His paintings attack conventional concepts of beauty, plow the flesh and reap a contorted yet keen vision of mortality...
...mark of courage for anyone to consent to a Bacon portrait. In fact, the painter rarely has his subject present, prefers to work from photographs strewn about his London studio. Says he: "Sitters inhibit me; if I like them, I don't want to practice before them the injury that I do to them in my work. In private, I can record the fact of them more clearly...
...Jackson in an era that looks for a more patrician patina on its politicians, he strikes many as plain corny or simply crude. Last week, for example, while en route to Manila, the wife of an allied Prime Minister had just confided to her seat mate that she preferred bacon even to caviar when the President leaned over, speared one of her two rashers and devoured it. Then he ordered another portion -for himself...
...House on a 354-to-25 vote. Not a dollar was put into or subtracted from the legislation as it was reported out by his Subcommittee on Public Works Appropriations. Since "Big Mike" likes to keep all House members happy, every state had at least one slice of bacon. But Kirwan was undisguisedly most elated about his own project. "This is going to be the greatest canal," he bragged, "in the history of mankind...
...addition to such continuing treatment of the subject, we have had seven cover stories on America's cities in the last four years. They have dealt with progress as well as problems-for example, Mayor Richard Daley and the development of Chicago (March 15, 1963), City Planner Edmund Bacon and his achievement in Philadelphia (Nov. 6, 1964), and Mayor John Lindsay's approach to the troubles and delights of New York...