October 1, 1998

Tour of East Hampton, LI, home of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner offers insight into their private lives as well as their art; photos (M)

Accounts of anxiety-filled dreams about computers are showing up in public spaces of Internet and in off-line conversations; people are posting their dreams in dozens of on-line dream journals, Web rings and newsgroups, and computers play starring roles in some of them; most therapists say computers have not been in common use long enough to become part of dreamers' repertory, but Barbara J Lee, clinical social worker, claims computer is becoming its own archetype--symbol of how modern life has accelerated; sampling of technology-related dreams reported on various Internet sites; photos (M)

Top New York City health officials, as investigations expand into possible problems with medical care in city jails, including several deaths, have acknowledged that they have had trouble monitoring jail system's shift to managed care; say that they are scrambling to set up better system for supervising medical treatment on Rikers Island and are demanding more medical services from contractor, St Barnabas Hospital in Bronx, to keep it from earning excessive profits on three year, $342 million contract (M)

Gloomy I.M.F. Forecast The International Monetary Fund issued a pessimistic report on the world economy, especially for those of Russia and Japan. Page A18.

John Russell reviews Morgan Library exhibit of master drawings from Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and Pushkin Museum in Moscow; photo (M)