Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time he is a complex man: on one side he needs to be loved by all; on another he is a machine incessantly producing charm; on still another he has the wisdom of an Indian sage. He is like one of those figures of the painter Francis Bacon who show on their faces all that is happening in their guts-he has the same devastated plasticity." (Two Bacon paintings appear under the credits on Tango, and several scenes in the film were visually inspired by his work...
...beat, or rhythm," says the superb cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, Bertolucci's collaborator since The Spider's Stratagem. Storaro douses Bertolucci's films in ravishing light-working, as many cinematographers do, from ideas in painting. He and Bertolucci drew their inspiration for Tango not only from Francis Bacon but also from Vermeer...
...company housing and to shop at the company store. He was named scrip, but only as an advance--its value was deducted from his future salary. In order to help any grandfather through the crisis, relatives in Chicago would send him, his wife, and their six children bacon and ham. But when the company store discovered he was no longer purchasing these staples, they cut off the scrip. There was nothing left to do but head North...
...Francisco report in Lancet that sodium nitrite, a preservative mixed into some hot dogs, sausages and cured meats, can cause "hotdog headaches." The pair base their findings on the study of a 58-year-old man with a seven-year history of painful, nonthrobbing headaches whenever he ate frankfurters, bacon, salami or ham. No other food seemed to induce the headaches, but randomly administered doses of sodium nitrite did. The doctors are not sure how sodium nitrite causes the headaches, but have no doubt as to how they can be avoided. Once their patient excluded hot dogs and cured meats...
...GRAPEFRUIT DIET Consists of little more than eggs, bacon and grapefruit (which is supposed to dissolve body fat) and allows dieters to eat as much of these foods as they wish. Those who follow this diet supposedly lose up to ten pounds a week, but not because of any fat-fighting properties on the part of grapefruit. Most of the people who try this diet get so tired of the limited selection of foods that they simply cut down on their eating...