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...Lone Man greets her musing as he does most evidence of other life forms, with the blank stare of a supermodel. If you thought Jason Bourne was terse, the Lone Man makes him seem like Regis Philbin. Come to think of it, The Limits of Control is like a Bourne film, except one in which everything goes smoothly for Jason, the workdays include a lot of napping and there's no blood, although cinematographer Christopher Doyle does regularly frame our hero against sumptuous red surfaces. At the climax, when confronted with a seemingly impenetrable fortress, instead of scaling walls...
...pacing, The Limits of Control is like an antidote to Internet surfing, and it is easy to fall into its enigmatic rhythms, bobbing along in the shallows like - good heavens, it's all connecting now - a drunken boat or something. In this spirit, the first time the Nude (Paz de la Huerta) hove into sight, nude on the Lone Man's bed, her rump in the air, wearing librarian glasses, she made perfect sense. Every cinematic hitman has a distracting girl stashed somewhere, and the blatant use of her sexuality needs to be parodied. (Her first line is the utterly...
...downward. Being an optimist, I prepared for Gael Garcia Bernal's pantless scene, but no go. By the end of Nude's screen time, Emperor Jarmusch himself seems a lot less cool, like maybe just an arty guy, with a fantastic eye, but some limits to his control...
...every HMO we sign up with does this too. Every year. Every 10 years we have to take our boards again. (Imagine if lawyers had to pass the bar exam every decade until they quit.) And there are yearly federal and state licensures and safety exams, fire exams, infection-control exams, malpractice-insurance exams, queries about crimes we're assumed to have committed and disabilities we must prove we have not developed...
...Medical-Billing Industry It costs a typical doctor about 10%, right off the top, to collect fees from the HMOs and other insurance companies he or she has to deal with. This is due to the ultra-complex set of rules and regulations those companies have established to "control costs" (read: to pay us less while their executives take home more) and the billing staffs we have to hire to deal with them. This money does nothing for patients; it's a health-care expense that produces no health care. It could easily be eliminated with simple, intelligent, centralized payment...