Word: denialism
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Health insurers -- who would gain millions of new customers under Bush's plan -- hailed the proposal. The President was praised for addressing one of the major flaws in the existing insurance system: denial of company-sponsored coverage to new employees if they suffer from "pre-existing" ailments. With Bush's plan, companies could no longer legally turn down applicants no matter what their health status, but the cost of private coverage would still be prohibitive...
...Newspaper Editors in 1983, he asked the assembled power elite of print whether they thought their publications shared the same standards and values as the sensational tabloids sold in supermarkets. After the editors got over their astonishment that anyone would pose such a question, they responded with overwhelming denial. No rational adult, their reasoning went, would take such twaddle seriously as a source of news. Beatty responded that the chasm between serious reportage and junk journalism, so vast in the editors' minds, was far narrower in the minds of consumers -- and in the reality of what gets printed...
Among voters at large, Clinton's insistence that responsibilities accompany rights is resonating as a Democratic answer to the family-values themes that George Bush and Ronald Reagan have used to capture crucial middle-class Democrats. One particular expression of Clinton's approach, Arkansas' denial of a driver's license to school dropouts, wins applause before every audience he addresses, including two recent gatherings of wealthy Republicans...
...beginning, the CIA has been a focus of Kennedy- assassinati on conspiracy theories (bitterness by some agents over Kennedy's Bay of Pigs "betrayal" was an obvious motive). This year the first and most relentless conspiracy theorist of them all, Mark Lane, has come out with a book, Plausible Denial, which targets high-level CIA figures as the plotters behind the assassination. Lane presents what he calls new and conclusive evidence that the CIA was setting up Oswald in the months before the assassination by having an Oswald impersonator meet with Soviet and Cuban agents in Mexico City, the better...
...unwittingly spread a lethal epidemic lifted documentary into poetry. Mark St. Germain's play, part fevered memory, part aborted repentance, was hauntingly staged by artistic director Gregory S. Hurst on a painterly landscape blending hospital confines with the lonely beauty of the dunes. As Mary, Estelle Parsons blazed in denial...