Word: seem
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...brought a new kid into town (Cara Lynn, the long-lost daughter of Bill's second wife Nicki). Some of these plot tweaks can be waved away because Big Love has a narrative more hurtling and congested than any series I know; it makes Mad Men's plotting seem staid by comparison ... But Olsen and Sheffer must also think that testing the credulity of the storyline, is a smart way to keep their viewers debating, guessing and glued. (See the top 10 TV series...
...suburban Salt Lake City who happens to have three wives and a bunch of nutter relatives out in the woods. The show works simultaneously as family-values-affirming drama and deadpan surrealist farce: Father Knows Best meets Twin Peaks. And its creators, Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, seem to keep those shark-jumping events as a checklist of things...
...rely on statistics (sometimes) but in any individual case no one can ever knows how a given treatment will work, or how a different one would have. People must put their practical trust in something: progress or "science," friends, institutions, the government, sometimes maybe even their doctor. Today there seem to be many who just trust the money - that the more expensive must be the better choice. Faith in the marketplace, when ultimately commercial factors define good medicine, is a reality of modern medicine - a reality that can cheat patients out of the best treatment...
Even if we were to concede to hyperbole and satire, we think chasing someone through the neo-gothic halls of Yale like zombies does seem a little excessive (just like 16 minutes of Glee-like singing for the sake of old Eli was a bit much...
...Ratnesar: One thing does seem clear: He may say he is committed to change, but he can only change so much. He's never going to be a warm, sympathetic and likable figure - and he is still surrounded by the same handlers who enable his worst traits. The sooner he gets back to golf, the better, but from the sound of this statement, you're right ... it may be a longer absence than most of us (and certainly the PGA Tour) anticipated...