Word: supermodern
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...Factor: Vick's supermodern quarterbacking and superhuman ability vs. a streak with roots dating back to the Lombardi era. What a way to get introduced to postseason football. If he breaks something big early, it could really disrupt the Pack's defensive mind...
From the huddled refugee camps of the West Bank to the backpackers' paradise in Bali, violence and conflict erupted along an arc of crisis. American soldiers, high tech and supermodern, raced into battle in Afghanistan; in the West Bank and Kashmir, women grieved for their dead with gestures and cries as old as the ages. Innocents suffered, as always: bystanders killed by bombs in Israel; a journalist murdered for no reasons other than that he was an American, a Jew and a reporter. In the suburbs of Washington, a pair of snipers stalked their victims, hiding behind trees, tucked among...
...elsewhere, young doctors learn their art and researchers develop the equipment and techniques that will save lives tomorrow. But all this comes at a fearfully high price-so high that many buyers in today's medical marketplace cannot or will not pay it. As a result, for all their supermodern machinery and fine medical pedigrees, the teaching hospitals are increasingly looking like institutional dinosaurs, exquisitely adapted to yesterday's hang-the-cost medicine practiced primarily by specialists but in need of, well, surgery to survive in tomorrow's world of intensely price-conscious managed care conducted mostly by primary-care...
...ties between the two stories work on several levels to hold the movie together. Horse-drawn carriages follow the same cobbled roads taken by Jaguars a scene earlier, a shot of supermodern trains of 1981 comes moments after a smoke-filled train station of 1867, Anna leaves for London just as Sarah flees Lyme Regis in mystery. In each story a successful man throws aside his calm, well-ordered life with its calm, well-ordered love (wife and kids in one, finance in the other) in order to reach out for the mystery and excitement of an uncatchable woman...
...expected you to encourage Nor man Cousins in his brave endeavor to start a new magazine. I had hoped it would be a "dead stodgy" ringer" Saturday for our Review dear and old not at "wordy all like and the present supermodern one from which Norman Cousins "stalked" away just in time - thank goodness...