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...rest of O'Hara's life--the move to New York, the succession of affairs, the eventual job as curator at the Museum of Modern Art--was equally filled with the motion and sounds of colorful personalities, including Jackson Pollack, Larry Rivers, LeRoi Jones, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler and Allen Ginsberg. These sections of the biography are almost impossibly juicy, filled with gossipy anecdotes and discussions of trends in all the artistic genres with which O'Hara became involved...
...morning of Sept. 22, Clinton was hurriedly briefed on the plan in a crowded Holiday Inn suite in East Lansing, Michigan. Ronald Pollack, the executive director of Families U.S.A., a foundation that develops programs for the elderly, told Clinton that managed care was a secret weapon he could spring on Bush. Clinton could strike a populist chord by helping business lower costs, by providing Americans with cradle-to-grave coverage and by standing up to such special interests as doctors, drug companies and insurance firms. Best of all, the plan required no new taxes. Clinton loved it. As he heard...
...Clinton was so excited that he asked if he could release cost estimates based on the managed-care idea to the public. Magaziner was all for it. Others opposed the move, however, saying the numbers would stir debate, even if the new approach was sound. Pollack told Clinton that his group would soon release a "bipartisan" report detailing managed competition's effect on the budget. Why not, Pollack said, let his group put numbers out? Clinton agreed. That way the numbers would be available but could not be directly linked to Clinton's plan. Two days later, after...
Parts of an interview Brown had conducted with Cruise earlier in the week were shown following the talk with Pollack...
...began by saying I didn't feel the end of the book literally translated would be good for the movie...because it deals with the corruption of Mitch McDeere," Pollack said. "The major areas we changed had to do with giving Mitch McDeere some change for a life...