Word: homely
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Jonze's biggest challenge lies in sustaining the movie's forward momentum during Max's time with the wild things. At a certain point, I felt I'd learned enough and was ready to go home to Keener's anchoring presence. It's not that Jonze is overindulgent; it's that he's so thoroughly devoted to exploring Max's pain and joys, sometimes to the detriment of narrative. But I'll let my own child make the call on whether it's too long. I'm taking him, although I'd doubted I would, having expected the hipster...
...study followed 323 Boston-area nursing-home residents with advanced dementia for 18 months. These patients were unable to recognize family members, incontinent and unable to get around on their own. Researchers tracked the progression of their disease, complications and survival rates; they also recorded the treatments each patient received as well as their health-care proxies' understanding of advanced dementia and the patient's prognosis. Over the course of the study, 55% of the residents died, with nearly half of those deaths occurring within the first six months of the study. Patients' median survival span was 478 days...
...experts say. Among the family members who directed these residents' care, however, those who believed that the resident had less than six months to live and understood the nature of advanced dementia were less likely to intervene aggressively than caregivers who lacked such understanding. "Clinicians, patients' families and nursing-home staff need to recognize and treat advanced dementia as a terminal illness requiring palliative care," wrote Sachs in his editorial, noting that patients need not be close to death to warrant pain-relieving treatment...
...Over the last decade, Brown has become one of, if not the best team in the Ivy league and probably our biggest rival,” Clark said. “In the last few years, neither of us has been able to win at home. After our 4-1 victory last year, Brown will be looking to reverse the trend...
...It’s always a great atmosphere to play in,” Clark agreed. “The University of Connecticut will have 4,000 fans, a sell-out crowd, so it’s very rare for them to lose a game at home...