Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.