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The Medical Emporium: Health Insurers Pushing Patients To Shop By Price
The Hartford CourantEmployees of the city of Manchester, N.H., can receive up to $150 if they choose low-cost medical providers for colonoscopies, CT scans and other procedures. It's a pilot program offered by one of WellPoint's Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans for the...Tags: General Practitioners, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Yale University, West Hartford, Colonoscopy
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Arts & Crafts revival has lasted longer than original movement
Arts and Crafts, or Mission, furniture is described in most catalogs and books as functional and simple, with straight legs and arms. Pieces have little decoration, just visible mortise-and-tenon joints. Light or dark oak was preferred. It was a short-...Tags: Germany, William Morris, Gustav Stickley, New York City, Economy, Business and Finance
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Karl Marx, Harper Lee sold big in 2011
Tribune NewspapersUsed book-selling website AbeBooks' biggest sale in 2011 was of Karl Marx's "Das Kapital," the three-volume first edition published by Otto Meissner in 1867. Ironically, someone paid $51,739 for the seminal critique of capitalism. The second-highest sale...Tags: Karl Marx, Thomas Carlyle, Book, Hart Crane, Services and Shopping
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Emma Thompson and Dakota Fanning in a Brit period piece?
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThis is “out-there” casting, and how. Oscar winner Emma Thompson has scripted and taken a big supporting role in “Effie,” a bio-drama about an infamous unconsummated love affair of Victorian England — influential art... -
Book review: 'Venice: Pure City' by Peter Ackroyd
Los Angeles TimesThe works of man are many and wondrous, but if I had to pick one that most completely embodies the concept of the sublime, it probably would be the autumnal view from the terrace of Venice's Gritti Palace, across the Grand Canal, to the great church of...Tags: Rome (Italy), England, Los Angeles Times, Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008), Venice
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Fantasy Xmas shopping for book lovers: Christie's droolworthy auction
Jacket CopyLooking for just the right gifts for the book lovers in your life? Today, in two auctions, Christie's is auctioning some rare and stunning literary artifacts. Cormac McCarthy's typewriter is only the beginning; there are first editions and letters and....... -
Cormac McCarthy's $254,500 typewriter
Jacket CopyCormac McCarthy's typewriter sold at auction today for 254,500 bones, more than 12 times the estimated cost of $15,000-$20,000. And the thing barely works! Functionality isn't the point, of course: Provenance is. It's notable that McCarthy has written all... -
'Rebirth of a Nation' by Jackson Lears
Jackson Lears is a formidable, compellingly original cultural and intellectual historian.
In "No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920," Lears skillfully delineated the role of aesthetic radicals -- notably...Tags: African Americans, Herman Melville, Heads of State, Government, White House
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Hipster Moderne
IF you want to see a car designed for designers, you need only turn your oversized Philip Johnson-style spectacles toward the Audi TT.
From the moment the first concept car appeared at the Frankfurt Auto Show in 1995, it was clear the TT meant to...Tags: University of Paris, Amusement and Theme Parks, Car Tires, Vehicles, Rem Koolhaas
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Dike Blair at Mary Goldman Gallery
Times Art CriticA dozen gouaches and a matched pair of installation sculptures by Dike Blair continue the New York artist's eccentric dialogue between perception and objects. His second show at Mary Goldman Gallery nicely elaborates long-standing concerns rather than...Tags: Sandro Botticelli, Manhattan (New York City), Arts, Arts and Culture, Hawaii
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Rhapsody in wood
Times Staff WriterEven played against the twilight drama of the Pacific Ocean rushing and roaring as if aimed directly at the glass wall of this redwood living room in Malibu, the small, solitary chair has a commanding presence, serene and reassuring as the rosy horizon...Tags: Philosophy, New York, William Morris, Science and Technology, Minority Groups
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