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...decline of religious faith and the corresponding rise of the movies. "The novel's central thesis--that movie theaters have become modern America's houses of worship--is never really demonstrated in action," notes TIME's Paul Gray. "It is fascinating to watch a writer of Updike's dexterity cram and mold some tremendously diverse material into a single book. He renders, as tellingly as ever, the magic of individual moments. But for all its author's labors toward unity, In the Beauty of the Lilies remains an assemblage of separate and unequally inspired fragments...
...rated. So let's get with it, moviemakers! If the Bard writes about a Moor who loves a Venetian lady, show them naked in bed together, and have Iago woo Emilia from the rear. If the subject is villainy on a royal scale, as in Richard III, cram the screen with ingenious murders. Everyone says that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd have been a screenwriter. But would he be Joe Eszterhas? Would he have shown one of his characters enjoying fellatio--then gasping in horror as a dagger, thrust upward by an assassin hiding under the bed, suddenly...
...with Arizona's program, one of TennCare's greatest successes has been in mainstreaming Medicaid patients, who no longer see doctors at so-called Medicaid mills. This too was accomplished cunningly. The architects of TennCare created a controversial rule called the "cram down." A doctor who opts out of TennCare is not permitted to participate in BlueCross and BlueShield's commercial network, thereby losing a huge amount of potential business from approximately 1.2 million non-Medicaid people, including state and municipal employees and teachers. Initially, almost one-third of the doctors in the BlueCross and BlueShield network refused to join...
...learning that one floor above the Loker Commons the new first-year dining hall, Annenberg Hall, will barely be able to accomodate diners. Space is tight in the newly renovated Memorial Hall. Considering all the goodies that Oppenheimer wants to cram into his student center, the request is simply unreasonable...
...killing Danny Hansford, a Camaro-driving handyman and hustler. But the book is no typical true-crime thriller; it is as close to Paul Theroux as it is to Dominick Dunne. Populated by a townful of Southern Gothic characters, from patrician bon vivants like the polo-playing Harry Cram to Williams' canny, football-obsessed lawyer Sonny Seiler to local eccentrics like maid Gloria Daniels, who conducted tours of her employer's mansion, occasionally supplementing them with renditions of Stormy Weather, the book is a portrait of a gossipy and class-conscious Savannah--mannered, monied and soaked to its soul...