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Even as medical bills climb, 277 so-called health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are managing to keep their members healthy and out of the poorhouse to boot. HMOs are group-practice health plans in which a family pays a flat fee of, say, $160 per month, and in return is provided with comprehensive medical care, ranging from doctors' visits to heart surgery. The idea behind the plans is to reduce costs by making doctors and administrators accountable for healthcare expenditures...
...door." Short of requiring withdrawal, the College can do nasty things like kick people off of sports teams and force their by-lines out of undergraduate publication. On paper it all sounds rather dire, but who can take the administrators seriously when they're threatening to boot one out of every nine people in a single class? More importantly, are students going to learn anything about computers as a result of all this excitement...
MOST OF THE people in line at the Sack Beacon Hill asked for tickets to Das Boot Pronouncing it like what cowboys wear, probably ready to see another complex, harshly intellectual film, as they have come to expect from recent German filmmakers. Once in the dark, however, they discovered that Boot not only means "boat," but is pronounced just like the English word; and, moreover, that this is a good old-fashioned action-packed American-style war movie. Complete with a tough, taciturn captain, young bloom-of-manhood sailors just doing their duty, suspense, explosions, and the general message that...
...Boot is one of the highest-grossing films in German history. It provides the audience with its favorite (American) kind of entertainment, while soothing consciences about any collective guilt. These men are good; They are soldiers, not Nazis, Mostly they are dark-haired, Southern-spoken. Only one "overgrows Hitlerjugend," as the captain calls him, shows a tendency toward uniform-worship and blond Aryan arrogance. The tall, chisel-cheeked heroes of Leni Riefenstahl could never fit in the low ceilings and grime of a submarine...
...audience for this movie, moreover, is not entirely accustomed to watching subtitled films--this is being shown at a Sack Theater, not at the Orson Welles. Das Boot is being promoted as a movie that happens to come from Germany, not as a "foreign film," with all the connotations of all-art-and-no-plot that the term carries for American. If the same audiences who like action-packed movies are willing to read subtitles and be depressed, Das Boot will be a hit in America...