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...Dwan Gallery. A veritable apotheosis of the ordinary, it is West Coast Artist Kienholz's reconstruction of a favorite Los Angeles artists' greasy spoon, a kind of frozen happening quickened by sounds (random conversations, taped on the spot, and jukebox background music) and circulating odors (stale bacon grease) pushed around...
Hughes has been appointed Bacon Exchange Professor under a program that subsidizes the exchange of Harvard and French university professors. He has not yet determined the subject of his lectures...
...dogs an hour, all of a uniform weight and length for better cost control. Another, guided by computer punch cards, can chop up huge chunks of meat., frozen or fresh, to supply 1,000 Ibs. of meat paste every four minutes. Still others turn out smoked ham and bacon in twelve to 24 hours (v. 56 hours in the ordinary process) by electronic controls, automatically pump salt cure into ham, package bacon at the speed of 60 units a minute and stuff sausages in a new high-protein edible casing...
...steaks, roasts and other beef cuts that now constitute 50% of the average American's meat menu cost 11% more last month than they did a year ago. Pork is 16.5% higher; in many places, pork loin has risen from 590 a lb., to 790, and bacon costs as much as $1 a lb. As shoppers substituted chicken for beef and pork, poultry prices inevitably rose by 7% (current U.S. average price for fryers...
...century of Cimabue and Giotto, of St. Francis, St. Dominic and St. Thomas: an epoch of religious renascence that brought forth two major religious orders and the last great golden flower of Scholastic philosophy. But it was also the age of Marco Polo, Charles of Valois and Roger Bacon: an epoch of magnificent secular energy that propelled the rise of the middle classes and the independent city states, divided Italy between the party of the Pope (Guelph) and the party of the Emperor (Ghibelline) and embroiled Italians in a century-long civil war that concluded with the collapse...