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Bacon's work is not pessimistic (or optimistic, for that matter), for it lives outside these parentheses on a terrain of amoral candor about the most extreme situations. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"-so William Blake, whose mask Bacon once painted. Bacon's career has been a pursuit of this truth, from the transvestite bars of 1920s Berlin to the green baize of Monte Carlo, where he still assuages his passion for gambling. He is the Genet of painting, most particularly in the lavishness with which he uses his own psyche as experimental...
...Patriarch, long hardening into his time, he grew weary of waves and stiffened himself like a flatiron. Having dared so much ocean and sky, time and terrain, he let his eyes droop and then slept, a boulder among other boulders...
Like one of the telephone poles in the empty landscapes he used to paint, Edward Hopper looms lonely and somewhat isolated in the terrain of American...
APOLLO 15 Astronaut Dave Scott was hardly exaggerating. As he stepped off the ladder of his moon ship Falcon to become the seventh man to walk on the lunar crust, Scott faced the most awesome terrain ever explored: stark mountains, treacherous gorges, strange mounds and craters. "I can look straight up and see our good earth there," he said. A quarter of a million miles away, the world looked up and saw Scott, his peculiar light-footed movements carrying him across color- television scenes of stunning clarity...
...rehearsal during which electronic time delays were built into the system's circuitry to simulate the moon's distance. Perhaps just as difficult was the need to satisfy the conflicting demands of two masters: scientists and the public. NASA's geologists were primarily interested in terrain and rocks, while NASA's public relations men and the television networks wanted to focus on the astronauts themselves for a maximum amount of time. NASA worked out a compromise to appease both scientific inquiry and public curiosity...