Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...service arrangement with a particular doctor, and they would have to pay more to keep that arrangement. The Clinton plan includes strong price incentives for patients to switch to more economical health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations, in which groups of doctors and hospitals provide care for a flat fee -- and usually at a cost to the patient of longer waiting times and rationing of specialists' services. "Most people would be forced into HMOs because that's all they would be able to afford," says Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State who has proposed a "single-payer...
Granted, the old Greenbergian version of Modernism -- the idea that art advances by shedding its superfluities and ending up in a state of idealized blandness, flat frontal sheets of color, a discourse of the medium alone -- cuts no ice today. Granted, too, the recoil from such prescriptions was both inevitable and justified. And yet color-field painting did produce some very beautiful and rigorous works, and it is hard to see how an exhibition that includes six Jasper Johnses and five Andy Warhols could not have found room for a Morris Louis Unfurled or a Kenneth Noland target...
...health care seem inevitable. Congress is hearing a loud message from back home: the public may not yet know exactly what it wants, but it is clear on what it does not want -- the present system. Pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted focus groups for Republicans in June, terms flat opposition to reform "a loser. You have to say, We're serious about making changes but at a pace that is a lot more compatible with a private market...
...What is the point of going on? Aren't there any problems in this book? Unfortunately, the only serious trouble to visit Conroy's story occurs when Claude is at the keyboard. Here is what happens when he sits in on a jazz session: "G minor C seventh, A-flat minor D-flat seventh, A minor D seventh, B-flat minor E-flat seventh, and then a quick little half-tone figure to come out exactly right on F dominant seventh. It was so exciting...
...This was not at all what we expected," senior co-captain Jennifer Garcia said. "We were flat in the first set and that set the tone for the whole evening...