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...capture the feverish, nightmare quality of the experiences Bacon depicts, he has developed what is essentially a surrealist dream style to near perfection. Every brush stroke bears the mark of absolute conviction, from the fields of poison green and fetid lilac that deck his backdrops to the calculated white ejaculatory splats that he lashes across the legs of his subjects. There is hatred and hostility in Bacon's vision, but of late it seems to be mellowing. Nothing in his current show comes near to matching the insane intensity of his screaming popes of 1949-53. A study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Prelude to Butchery | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...really troubled Wilde about this assignment was what he saw happening to Biafra and its people. "A chaplain travels from village to village administering last rites to the dying and blessing the heaps of the already dead," wrote Wilde. "Vultures screech in the brooding, muggy sky. The air is fetid with despair and death. Reporting this story is depressing beyond description...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 23, 1968 | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...Buses, trains, taxis and all French commercial aircraft came to a halt. At first, French automobilistes created huge traffic snarls as they tried to go about in their cars; then, as gas supplies gave out, the streets became uncommonly deserted. In Paris and other cities, garbage accumulated in huge, fetid piles. Prices of some food items doubled and tripled in most cities. Even so, French housewives indulged in panic buying, not knowing how long the economic paralysis might last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Battle for Survival | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

Balaguer is even planning a tourist industry along a 25-mile strip of powdery white beach on the eastern end of the island. Appalling poverty and misery still remain, of course; fetid new slums have sprung up north of Santo Domingo, and a yearlong drought in the parched, scabrous southern peninsula has decimated cattle herds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: A New Stability | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...long straight streets of the old quarter enabled Communist gunners to knock them out from half a mile away. With only three of their original twelve APCs still operative, the ARVN troopers started the same house-to-house combat as the Marines on the other side of the fetid Perfume River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Battle of Hu | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

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