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...agree that some leveling of premiums is required, but Republicans and some conservative Democrats are shifting into stronger opposition to what they call socialized medicine. Instead, they champion what they describe as relatively simple reforms to make health insurance more secure and less expensive. Clinton's supporters argue that halfway measures will throw the system even further out of whack...
...buying. The repellent could have been subject matter, but then only a simpleton would think that Outer Dark (1968) was just about incest or Child of God (1974) just about necrophilia. More likely, the villain was the complexity of language and thought that refused to meet the reader halfway...
...what does the stuff taste like? Some say "somewhere between Pepsi and Sprite." Others: "a cross of Sunkist and Tab." The etymylogically inclined: "about halfway between 'good...
...Halfway through song from his new tribute album, The Billie Holiday Songbook, trumpeter Terence Blanchard abruptly shifts the mood from brokenhearted to defiant. Reflecting the emotions of a jilted lover, he blows swirling, gathering clouds of sound. Then, suddenly piercing them with a barrage of sharp notes, he dashes off a few steeply ascending riffs, bending his notes until they cry and yowl. Throughout the album, on solo after solo (Strange Fruit, In My Solitude), Blanchard's compact, mournful-sounding melodies evoke the desperation and broken dreams that tortured Holiday, who died at 44 in 1959 of drugs and drink...
...laughable "Love Story." Why is it that anytime a Harvard alum tries to pull off a heart-warming story about his alma mater, the result is, shall we say, less than inspiring? Perhaps because behind these ivy-clad walls, nothing interesting enough goes on to carry a halfway interesting movie...