Word: efforts
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...host and the guests, to be the buffoon and the butt of jokes when necessary. (They call the job second banana, after all, with all the pratfalls that the risible fruit implies.) Through it all, he kept a bluff good humor, something that must have taken considerable effort to seem as effortless...
Doctors are quick to say that much of the 30% of excess health-care spending is on "defensive medicine" - providing extra care in an effort to avoid malpractice liability - but De Brantes counters that the Prometheus model creates budgets based on clinical-practice guidelines that, if followed properly, help protect providers against malpractice claims...
...believe the word came down from national Democrats to local Democrats to do everything in their power to take her down," says state senator Gene Therriault, a Republican who represents the town of North Pole. "We started seeing a proliferation of ethics complaints against her. It was an orchestrated effort to take her down." Either way, all sides agree that the relationship is irreparable...
...also oppresses the poor. Only one man (pan-Asian star Takeshi Kaneshiro) can stop K-20 - if he can just figure out what evil genius is behind that ever-changing mask. A buoyant pace, meticulous design and a robust parkour fight on a skyscraper roof mark this superior effort from Sato, one of Japan's rare female directors of big-budget action films...
...nearly a half-century, Japan's most prolific genre has been Pink Eiga - soft-core, low-budget sex films. It's served as a training ground for young directors; the NYAFF showed an early effort by Yojiro Takita, who won the foreign-language Oscar this year for Departures. Goto, the current hot Pink auteur, was represented by the sweeter-than-it-is-sexy Blind Love, a twist on Cyrano de Bergerac, with a ventriloquist using a friend to woo (and have sex with) his inamorata. Lalapipo (Lot of People), set in the teeming, tumescent world of the porn industry...