Word: altmans
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LIBRETTISTS: ARNOLD WEINSTEIN AND ROBERT ALTMAN...
...history they hardly even had electricity. Hence the Russian artists satisfy our nostalgia for that lost phoenix of Modernist desire, an art that was both experimental and politically effective. To this day, one can't look at the Constructivist designs for agitprop events -- the red panels of Natan Altman's bold transformation of the huge Palace Square in Leningrad for the first birthday of the October Revolution, or the steel-truss tribune designed by Lissitzky to carry Lenin forward like a high diver over the heads of a crowd -- without a feeling of exhilaration: this, not the bureaucratic and murderous...
...ALTMAN: We have rationing today, de facto rationing...
...ALTMAN: What he's outlined is not likely to reduce the explosive inflation of health-care costs, and that's the ultimate long-term problem...
...ALTMAN: Clinton is not proposing a payroll tax. The real payroll tax that has gone on is what's happened to health-care costs on the Bush watch. Health-care costs have risen to 13% of gross domestic product, and to 8% of payroll...