Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daniel Altman often wishes on stars...
...first glance, the poster from Robert Altman's film "The Player" might appear to be just another randomly placed prop gracing the set of First Night, a convincing facsimile of a video store. Eventually, however, the parallels between the movie and this play become clear. First Night attempts to accomplish with light-hearted humor what "The Player" did with dark satire--to blur the distinction between the worlds of illusion and reality. Yet, while "The Player" illustrates the danger of individuals who lose contact with the real world, First Night wants to affirm the beauty of dreams and their power...
Others said to be under consideration include David Boren, a Yale alumnus and a current trustee, Stanford University Business School Dean A. Michael Spence, formerly dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Sidney Altman, a biology professor at Yale...
...setting the prices.' Price controls are not compatible with price competition." In Ellwood's system, costs would be controlled by competition among health-care suppliers to serve the members of the large pools of consumers. He believes that such incentives would eliminate the need for price controls. But Stuart Altman of Brandeis University, a top Clinton health-care adviser, thinks that the two mechanisms can work together. Challenged during a meeting of the Clinton health-care brain trust last week, Altman dismissed criticism of the apparent conflict: "I don't think Congress is going to give us the keys...
...eerie persistence of a half-heard spell. But even his eccentricity is so wide- ranging, so continually renewing and surprising, that it probably isn't fair to call it typical. Anyone who expects the morose, slightly spacy voluptuary who sang, most famously, on the sound track of Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller -- the Cohen who sounded like Villon with frostbite -- is in for a mighty shock encountering The Future...