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...rest of us--have been on a six-year decline. In 1990, raises averaged 5.5%; next year they will hit only about 4.3%. The U.S. median income of $34,076 wouldn't cover the tax bill of this year's investment banker. "Wall Street is totally out of context with general industry," says Johnson. "The average person is worried about the increase in the cost of living, and Wall Street is taking a quantum leap. It is so out of touch with the environment people work...
...moment, picked to represent the best work of all the AIDS scientists." Ho, a virologist who directs the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, did not make it easy for our staff; he was concerned throughout the project that his work be put in the context of all that is happening in the field. It was only when science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt laid out our comprehensive editorial plans that Ho realized what decision had been made. "Does that mean I'm Man of the Year?" he gulped. "That makes me very uncomfortable." Ho relaxed when convinced...
...Horn, painted in 1938, the second year of his exile from Nazi Germany. Max Beckmann holds a bugle, which he has just blown. His eyes don't meet yours; he looks away, listening for an answering note. It's a piercing image of the artist deprived of his context, hoping to connect, uncertain that he can. European man, signaling from a collapsing world...
...context of the service adds an element of integrity to the performance of the cantatas. motets and organ music. These pieces are compelling and thrilling as art for art's sake, but hearing them performed today in the original setting of a religious service can be especially poignant. Authenticity has glorious alchemical properties...
...these ideas were banal nearly 30 years ago, they seem even more so in the context of today's habitually ugly headlines. It is curious, then, why anyone would tackle a remake of the film without having come up with anything more insightful to say about the nature of evil. Nevertheless, In Cold Blood the mini-series arrives this week...