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...audience, absorbed by Sketches of Frank Gehry, Sydney Pollack?s very fine documentary about our era?s master builder. There are critics? represented in the documentary by a rather shifty-looking academic?who would resist that rather grandiose description of Gehry. But the truth is that the great buildings of his maturity are utterly inimitable. You can?t even pay him an homage; it would look like plagiarism. So one is stuck with the notion that he is some kind of genius, but one who, unlike, say, Frank Lloyd Wright, is somewhat discomfited by that term...
...virtues of Pollack?s documentary that it keeps Gehry pretty much in human scale. The two men are clearly friends and the film director - making his first non-fiction film - shoots in a style much less formal than he usually does in his features. He is also very much present in the movie, himself shooting with a small video camera while chatting with Gehry and using some of this material in the film. Despite his own successful career - full disclosure here, I?ve known Pollack casually for many years and employed him as the impeccable narrator of a number...
...what Haddock described as a “parliamentary twist,” a further review of last week’s meeting found that the bill only required a simple majority. The bill had passed by a 26-19 margin. —Staff writer Rachel L. Pollack can be reached at rpollack@fas.harvard.edu...
...incomes less than $14,700, just 1.7 million had enrolled in the program as of April 28, according to the organization's survey of state statistics. "The President and congressional leaders said their top priority was to sign up low-income seniors, so this is terribly disappointing," says Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. "These are the people who need the help the most." Medicare spokesman Peter Ashkenaz acknowledges that the low-income elderly have been "a difficult group to reach," but he points out that they are exempt from the May 15 deadline and officials will continue...
...payments. The senior then must pay the next $2,850 in costs until the bill reaches $5,100 and Medicare resumes paying. For many seniors who signed up early, the doughnut hole will soon arrive. "Once they hit it, they're going to be enormously surprised and upset," says Pollack. "When they're in the doughnut hole and they pay 100% of their drug costs, they still have to pay the monthly premium. So this is like going to a gas station and all of a sudden there's no gas going into your car, but the dollar signs keep...