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"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...
Paint, in Bacon's hands, acquires a strict and intimidating richness. Working in fast oval loops of the brush, he can give the skin of his nudes a kind of granular density, a thickness of imagined substance, that is quite old-masterly. The flesh is loose, but it is...
Incredible Money. This sybaritic service is the idea of Ward Sylvester, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate and Hollywood promoter. "A lot of young musicians are making incredible money," he explains. "But nobody is targeting them as a market." Sylvester also observes that entertainers do not like commercial airlines and...
To remedy the situation, Sylvester in 1973 purchased a ten-year-old United Air Lines jet for $750,000 and hired an experienced flight crew of 16. For an additional $750,000, he then ripped out Starship's seats and furnished it fit for a shah.
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