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During the era that health-care providers understandably remember as the Golden Age, circa 1965 through 1985, all these factors operated at full force to isolate American medicine from financial reality. Medicare and Medicaid added millions of paying customers, and in the meantime, neither the government nor private insurers put up much resistance to rising prices. By now, though, the private sector has wised up. Almost two-thirds of privately insured Americans are under so-called managed care: 20% in health-maintenance organizations, which provide all or most medical services under one roof, and 44% in preferred-provider organizations, which...
Dunaway is considerably more relaxed than in recent roles (noteably as Depp's lover in the well-intentioned "Arizona Dream" in 1994). Brando, too, seems content to let the film pass him by, with only a snapshot of him circa "On the Waterfront" to suggest his former power...
From Hitler's mesmerizing Nuremberg rallies circa 1935 to direct mail in the 1970s to the trivializing eight-second sound bites that have marked recent campaigns, the techniques of this era have too often favored power seekers or clever interest-group mobilizers while discouraging ordinary voters and making them cynical. This distorted top-to-bottom information cascade must give way to a next stage of technology -- one that will reverse the flow, thereby ending a half-century's buildup of lawyer-lobbyists who represented interest groups (including the media) more than they did voters...
...anticipated. February is a horrendous month to fall in love--it's a horrendous month to do just about anything.) According to Butler's Lives of the Saints, that date is the anniversary of the martyrdom of Valentine, a Christian religious figure who was beaten and subsequently beheaded circa 269 A.D. I went through not only CVS but the Coop as well, without finding a single Valentine's Day card that made so much as a token reference to this key historical fact. Clearly, the revisionist hegemony is both deep-rooted and far-reaching...
...most perfectly realized painting in this show has to be White Forms, circa 1955; the balance between the rushing black and the captured density of the static white seems exact, perfect and yet imperiled by the energy of movement. Such structures have a lot to do with the way New York City and industrial America generally were described by photography. When Walker Evans looked at the Brooklyn Bridge or Margaret Bourke-White at the Hoover Dam, they saw hieroglyphs of power; so, moving through Manhattan, did Kline. The graininess and stark contrast of Robert Frank's photos...