Word: float
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Most physicians have a quick answer: almost anybody else. Given managed care's sorry record, it's easy to see how doctors might be just a bit skeptical. While the administrative savings could be big for HMOs, they still earn 10% to 30% of their profits from the float--the interest on holding onto their premiums for an extra 30 to 90 days. At the same time, industry coalitions like MedUnite often collapse...
...Francesco Terilli's ivory crucifix is especially beutiful. Terilli is the only acknowledged artist in the show, and, not unsurprisingly, this piece shows the most raw artistic talent in the collection. Christ, positively luminous against the simple black wooden cross, hangs barely pinioned to the crossbars, threatening to float off at any second. His hair and crown of thorns are rendered with ethereal detail, his face delicately worked, even the drops of blood from the wound in his side are ivory. This piece can't help but draw your undivided attention-and it's no wonder that it captured...
...more. "I'm a freeta," Hattori explains. That's a new word, referring to people who float from job to job, dabbling in one dead-end, low-skill position after another. It's putting a nice spin on what used to be called loser. That's O.K. with Hattori. It's even cool. Hattori graduated a year ago?March 2000?from Yokohama National University, a prestigious public school. "I never really looked seriously for a job," he says. His parents, both government bureaucrats, pay his rent. "I'm optimistic about my future," he says. "It isn't like...
...people, who number no more than 3,000 at present, are growing by a couple of hundred a year. They try to avoid attention, but that's difficult in a vehicle that's about as subtle as a parade float. Curious highway patrol officers sometimes pull them over just to get a peek inside. Celebrity hounds, hoping to cadge an autograph off some rock star, sprint across parking lots and bang on the doors, demanding that the occupants identify themselves...
...every girl's bedroom pin-ups, Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and started the first few minutes of his movie with a scene showing exactly what men do to each other in bed. At one stroke, amid much audience perturbation, he unmoored the taboos and let them float flamboyantly close to the mainstream. Asian audiences were intoxicated and its filmmakers' impulses raged against society's machinery, creating a new cinematic landscape of sexual ambiguity and opportunity...