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When Susan Evans of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication held focus groups about living wills, she uncovered a deep mistrust between doctors and patients around the subject of dying. Doctors think patients don't want to talk about it; patients think doctors lack the time and training to do so. Some are cynical about doctors' motives. "The longer I am on a machine," one patient said, "the more money they make...
...Lincoln-appointed board members had any background in the visual arts. Never had a collection of such quality been controlled by such a quintet of aesthetic ignoramuses. To help in its deliberations, the board appointed an advisory committee. Its honorary chairman was the publishing mogul and collector Walter Annenberg. It included several museum professionals and one art dealer, Richard Feigen...
...conservation committee. Some were rejected because their condition was fragile. There has been no major conservation." In an interview published in last month's issue of Art & Auction, Glanton (who is black) tried to nuke his critics with the claim that they were impelled by racism. Walter Annenberg entered the fray with the ponderous declamation that the hundred or so students who, headed by an engineer named Nick Tinari, are now seeking a court injunction to prevent the paintings leaving the U.S. are "just a bunch of complainers who act as if they're important figures in the art world...
Perhaps so, but they were something to Barnes, even though he wasn't at all the gentleman that Annenberg is. In the meantime, the voice you hear muttering as you revel in your first sight of the Barnes paintings may not be an acoustiguide. It could be the livid shade of the antiseptic millionaire, undeterred by the artgoing public's exclamations of delight...
...illness and violence. According to recent studies, slightly more than 11% of the mentally ill are prone to violence, roughly the same percentage as in the general population. In reality, most mentally ill patients are withdrawn, frightened and passive. For 25 years, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication tracked television portrayals of the mentally ill in prime time: more than 72% of the characters were portrayed as violent...