Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when they, along with other activists of the 1960s and 1970s, accepted sub-Cabinet positions in the Carter Administration almost two years ago. Now both are in the news: Claybrook for engineering the recall of 7.5 million Firestone "500" radial tires, and Foreman for ordering cutbacks of nitrites in bacon because they are suspected of being carcinogens...
...More efficient," says Baldrige. Asparagus and very crisp bacon may be eaten with the fingers, and salad may be cut with a knife, she ordains. (The old stricture against cutting salad with a knife was meant to spare the hostess's silver-plated blade, which could be corroded by vinegar dressing.) But it still is "heresy to cut spaghetti." Somewhat conservatively, Baldrige advises that fried chicken "should be eaten with the fingers only on such occasions as picnics, barbecues, boat rides and other informal outdoor gatherings." As for caviar, "never take more than a teaspoonful, or you will have everyone...
From Van Gogh to Francis Bacon, the unease of some artists could reach such obsessive dimensions that it transcends mere dis play and becomes exemplary. In modern art, the father of anxiety was a Norwegian, Edvard Munch...
...Emilia Bassano Lanier, the half-Venetian wife of a court musician and "a bad lot." As for those who find evidence of homosexuality in the canon, Rowse dismisses them as "silly buggers. The idiots can't see that Christopher Marlowe was a roaring homo, and Francis Bacon was a homo, but that Shakespeare was more than normally heterosexual-for an Englishman." Such fulminations have provoked assaults by critics, who find the challenger "impudent," "self-advertising" and full of "melodramatic fantasies." Rowse counters in iambic pentameter, by cursing "the blinkered outlook of academics." His most persuasive replies, however...
...spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam and spam...