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...socialized health-care system picks up the tab for treatment and meals. But fed up with bland food, she has been taking short trips outside: "I leave after lunch and manage to hit three or four restaurants before I feel satisfied. Then I come back to a new hospital tray for dinner." She would like to leave the hospital and cook for herself, but the big problem is money. Rosen lives on a pension of $7,680 a year, and government regulations allow only $2,100 more for people with handicaps. "That," she complains, "would last about a month...
Another work at the Lehnbachaus was a metal table on wheels, placed over a tub of waxy material. A cabinet-like frame hung on the wall above. The guide booklet said the waxy stuff represented human fat; the rolling table, an embalming tray and the tools in the cabinet, embalming tools. The observer was supposed to reach and overcome the death taboo, called "The Morgue," the work aimed to fill the senses with revulsion and horror so that the viewer gradually lost his sensitivity to death...
...most divine of jewelry stores, Hoving, 83, has stepped down-but not, mind you, to stop working. In a starched white apron and starchier style, Hoving bustled through his own retirement party, tirelessly ladling eggnog for employees and friends. He took time out only to accept a sterling silver tray, his farewell gift, and to comment on his next professional endeavor: dispensing pearls of wisdom to U.S. firms on how to enhance their products and images. The minimum price for Hoving's services: $100,000. "I'd get every little drugstore coming in if I didn...
...small party on Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side, the hostess sets two small trays before her guests. One contains the familiar white lines of cocaine, ready for snorting through rolled-up dollar bills or tiny straws. The other tray also holds lines of fluffy white powder, but they contain something new: a potent form of heroin that has begun flooding the illegal drug markets of New York and other Eastern cities...
...photographs are remarkable. There they all are, the gray brothers, stretching, playing, howling in unison with Fox and his human children, fighting mock battles. Or just sitting, looking out at the world, with half-closed, quizzical eyes, a compelling mixture of Old Dog Tray and Ming the Merciless...