Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francis Bacon's, at 65, bears witness to the preservative effect of doing what you feel like, no matter how extreme, when you feel like it, no matter how late the hour. "I don't really care about my life," says Bacon. "I've led a very hypnotic and curious one - being homosexual I have lived with the most marvelously disastrous people. Of course one suffers. You like somebody and you suffer from it. But that's how life is." Born the son of a horse trainer in Ireland, raised in a thick atmosphere of decayed...
...There are two sides to me," Bacon explains in a recently published interview with English Art Critic David Sylvester. "I like very perfect things, for instance. I like perfection on a very grand scale. In a way I would like to live in a very grand place. But as in painting you make such a mess, I prefer to live in the mess with the memories and the damage." In photographs of the artist in his studio, we see the most famous English painter of his generation lurking in his lair. The camera flattens the owl-like eyes and avian...
Today through Saturday the Harvard swimmers and divers will be splashing it out against the best talent in the country, and while Essick refused last night to make any predictions. Harvard is looking to Hess Yntema and Bob Fullerton to bring home the bacon...
...Larose '66. If hotel does not have it in its wine cellar, order in advance ... Stock YB's kitchen in advance of his arrival with: two heads Bibb lettuce. Nice, fresh. One dozen brown eggs. Under no circumstances white eggs ... Mr. Brynner brings with him special Canadian bacon. Make sure he can put some of it in the hotel's freezer and the balance will go in his own kitchen." Et cetera, et cetera...
Pilot Systems. The heart of the operation is a product-coding system under which each of thousands of commonly sold items is identified by a ten-digit number-33900-10020 for an 8-oz. package of Jones hickory-smoked bacon, for example. Postage-stamp-sized rectangles printed on boxes or labels by the packager carry both the product's code number and a set of light and heavy lines that allow an optical scanner set in the newfangled check-out counters to identify each item. The scanner feeds the data to a computer programmed with the store...