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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...
...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...
...jokes in San Angelo, Texas, for most of his 56 years. People laughed when someone put a live rattlesnake, with its mouth sewn shut, in his bedroll at a chili-cooking contest. They laughed even harder when he tried to peddle Hawaiian Delight pizzas, a terrifying concoction of Canadian bacon, pineapple chunks and cherries smothered in tomato paste and melted cheese...
...Maximoff dropped a second or two off his top performance of the year in the 200 individual medley, but he nonetheless managed to bring home the bacon for the Crimson with a meet-record time...