Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noses, big mouths, teeth all crooked, hair in the ears -- I'm not at all against such things. Older people don't necessarily appear worse to me than younger ones." Of course, Dubuffet's nudes in the 1950s are sexist, as sexist as Rabelais -- those rosy-brown, squashed-flat, gross and scarily funny "Corps de Dames" that form such a spectacular counterpart to the women De Kooning was painting on the other side of the Atlantic at about the same time. But no moral nitpicker today could accuse Dubuffet of ageism or lookism...
...Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, which control more than 30% of the private health- insurance market. While the majority of the "Blues" are financially sound, others, like Empire, have been walloped by spiraling health costs and "cherry picking" -- the loss of the best customers to for-profit rivals. Gross mismanagement and lax oversight in many states have raised urgent questions: Can the Blues still carry out their mission as insurers of last resort? Are they too big and powerful to be regulated properly? Should the executives of these nonprofits enjoy the same perks as their brethren at FORTUNE...
There are some real surprises in the film, but usually they work out rather well. Wilfred "It's the Right Thing to Do" Brimley as the firm's menacing security agent would seem to be a case of gross miscasting, but he pulls it off well. There's a hidden edge of steel to all of his genial suggestions to eat Quaker Oats after all. Holly Hunter as Tammy, the secretary/lover of a private detective killed while digging into the firm is a delight--she goes from persona to persona with razor-sharp acting and timing...
...Harvard governance bodies--The President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers--are reduced to the position of a mere rubber stamp of the administration, the only source of their information. Yet each member of these two governing bodies is liable for dereliction of fiduciary duty and gross negligence. They risk losing at least $1 million a day for Harvard...
...haircut hubbub even had a complex sideshow: the disclosure that the Administration had abruptly fired seven longtime employees of the White House travel office, which handles trips for the press. The move should have been a public relations plus -- rooting out shoddy accounting practices and gross mismanagement in an office with large amounts of unaccounted-for cash and noncompetitive contracts...