Word: blue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blue Shield published the information. The result, says Polansky, was "an enormous amount of crank-letter harassment" as well as "slanted and distorted unfair newspaper publicity." Added the doctor: "The harassment has grossly affected my wife's health and the well-being of my family to the point that my receipt of these moneys, though earned and deserved, is simply not worth the retaining." With that, he sent back a check for $169,000 to Blue Shield and invited the agency to re-audit his books, and to "honor only those invoices which are supported to your satisfaction...
...figures for a single year. Michigan's Medicaid program had paid $169,000 to Dr. Sanford Polansky, of Benton Harbor, for 1968. His case, along with the names of 80 other physicians who had collected more than $25,000 each, were in the records of Michigan Blue Shield, which serves as Medicaid's fiscal agent in the state...
...Polansky would treat you even if you didn't have the money." Polansky has had to keep his office open seven days a week, and to work twelve-hour days except on Tuesdays and Saturdays, when he let himself off after nine hours. As for his charges, Blue Shield itself notes that they "are not only moderate, but are below average in many significant cases." One example: he charges only $90 for delivering a baby...
...pelvic girdle and his phallic guitar, closed his eyes, tossed his head and sent a solar wind of nostalgia over the 2,000 middle-aged record executives, hotel guests and show folk assembled for the opening night. It was like being back in the innocent '50s with Blue Suede Shoes, Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, Don't Be Cruel, Heartbreak Hotel, All Shook Up-and of course, the mangy Hound Dog ("cryin' all the time"). But things weren't quite the same. The audience was too grown up to scream and squeal. They clapped instead...
...become the co-author of a bestselling novel." Each contributor would write one chapter of no fewer than 2,500 words centered around a sexy suburban homewrecker named Gillian Blake. "There will be an unremitting emphasis on sex," the memo ordained. "True excellence in writing will be quickly blue-penciled into oblivion...