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...trip to Paris in the mid-1890s that confirmed his direction as an artist. Dissatisfied with Impressionism as an art of insubstantial surfaces, he immersed himself in dark tonal painting, based on Manet and Frans Hals. He wanted the image to be not a shimmer of light but a lump in the mind, given urgency by slashing brushstrokes and depth by strong contrast. He liked Hals' vulgarity and reflected it in his portraits, one of the most spectacular of which is in this show--Salome, 1909, a portrait of a dancer known as Mademoiselle Voclezca. Her long leg, thrust...
...Health Net's Greaves and QualMed's Hasan formally agreed to merge their companies. The merger triggered a "termination agreement" under which Greaves would receive a lump-sum payment of $1.1 million because technically he had been terminated from his former positions--even though he became cochairman and co-chief executive of the parent of the merged companies, Health Systems International, a job that paid a base salary of $865,000. "I gave up my sole authority as president, chairman and ceo," says Greaves, "and my contract said if that happens you get paid out your contract...
...March 31 Greaves signed a new severance deal that paid him a lump sum of $2.8 million, plus assorted other payments, and guaranteed him and his wife health care for the rest of their lives. The agreement also called for Health Systems International to buy back as much as half of his common stock, which brought him another $13.3 million. And Greaves signed a generous three-year consulting deal. All told, his exit brought him $18.1 million, equivalent to the average monthly premiums paid by nearly 134,000 subscribers...
...late August, less than two months after she had signed with Health Net, Christy discovered a lump in her left breast...
...promised, President Clinton vetoed the sweeping G.O.P.-sponsored overhaul of the welfare system that would have given lump-sum federal grants and shifted basic responsibilities to the states. Clinton said the legislation came packaged with too many spending cuts and too few incentives to move people from welfare to work...