Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortages across the U.S. have hardly initiated the new Middle Ages. But a skittish uncertainty about fuel, along with other factors like the stand-down of the DC-10 fleet and the way that dollars shrivel like cheap bacon when they go abroad, has begun to work changes in the way that Americans are approaching their annual ceremonies of leisure. Many vacations this year are being curtailed, especially the traditional summer trips that Americans en masse have taken since the early '50s-the long cross-country excursion by car. Now, having glimpsed the mortality of the machine, many Americans...
Expatriate R.B. Kitaj brings home the Bacon...
...master images of 20th century art and literature was the City: the ville tentaculaire, condenser of populations and their unease, republic of anxiety, seedbed of desire. From Edvard Munch's top-hatted masks parading the streets of Oslo to Francis Bacon's pinstriped executives howling like caged baboons, the City secreted images of alienation. To the eye of modernist poetry it got more spectral as one came closer to it, as the capitals of Christendom did for T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land, almost 60 years...
...painting today, the chief image maker of the City, apart from Bacon himself, is a 47-year-old American from Cleveland, Ohio, named R.B. Kitaj (pronounced Kit-eye). Kitaj has been living in London for more than 20 years, and has not shown regularly in the U.S. Consequently, he seems more of a name than a presence in American art. In England, his reputation is, if anything, exaggerated in the other direction. He is widely regarded as a reincarnation of America's cultural expatriates of the 1920s. When the catalogue essay for his present show of 50 drawings...
...food at Adams is noticeably better. The salad bar, for example, is markedly more varied than those at other Houses. At Adams, you can sprinkle celery salt in your tomato juice, garnish your salad with real bacon bits, anchovies or mushrooms, spread honey-butter on your slice of bread, and wash it all down with tomato juice or percoaled coffee with real cream...