Word: bucks
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Assisted reproduction is among the least regulated medical specialties in the U.S. Unlike most of Europe, the U.S. does not require fertility clinics to be licensed. Moreover, many U.S. clinics are interested above all in turning a buck. Thus, says Gladys White, executive director of the National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction, "the U.S. has some of the best and some of the worst infertility centers in the world...
...more portentous graduates, he grounds catastrophe with humor. A shopping bag full of sex toys splits open on a crowded subway. A whimsical riff describes heaven as a polymorphous playground where Emily Dickinson is one of the few chaste holdouts. Elsewhere too, Gurganus puts a lot of buck-and-wing into what his fictional half calls a "Comedy of this shuffle toward the crypt...
...boasting two tyrannosaurian movieplexes totaling 54 screens, as well as glitzy entertainment and retail hot spots like Off Rodeo Drive that sell designer duds at hoi polloi prices. Roseanne sat down for a bite in celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck's cafe-in-a-mall. But she realized her baby Buck needed a changing table. No changing table on this menu. So Roseanne let loose a blue streak and headed off to boogie at the Virgin Megastore...
...week began with a frantic, sweaty call from the greenroom at Good Morning America. "How do I tell people I am scared without scaring them?" I asked my partner, Jeff Berkowitz, at 7:34 a.m., four minutes before going on air for my regular "The Buck Starts Here" segment. "How do I tell them that this bull wants to pull in his horns, even...
What ensues is a drawn-out mess of a plot, involving seduction, blackmail and some randomly inserted surrealistic interludes featuring Wallace Shawn as the devil. Nothing in the health-care industry, Lumet asserts, is what it seems, and everyone is out to make a quick buck. That's all well and good, but with material so decidedly unenlightening, Lumet as a filmmaker should at least present it in an entertaining or thought-provoking manner. Instead, he putters along, trying to convince the audience that they are seeing something...