GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
This appeal confronts us with a paragon of unclarity, a paradigm of mutuality, and a plethora of pittances. The paragon is whether, by virtue of their contractual and operational relations with a county hospital, a private employer and some of its employees acted "under color of state law" within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982). The paradigm is whether these same private actors became "recipients" of federal assistance when paid...
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