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Tyrannical order is, in fact, the essence of the disease, as Flek teaches Joseph: Anorexia, he intones, is "all about control--about keeping chaos at bay."
Then there's the added insult to untreated ER waiting-room injury of having to watch these Satanic sentimental TV spots for various HMOs, featuring grainy handheld pseudo-documentary sepia-tone footage of some hypothetical multi-ethnic customer base (elderly black grandmothers on rocking chairs with blankets draped over their knees and beaming Asian-American 6-year-olds on swing sets always seem to make an appearance) while muted piano music plays and some studio-musician faux-gospel vocalist breathily intones the company slogan/musical sound bite, informing us all "(Insert Name of HMO here) ...
"I have never seen a candidate for president in my lifetime who was not the nominee of his party have a better week than George W. Bush had," intones Mark Shields on both NewsHour and Capital Gang .
"The 1990s in particular have been a funereal decade, interring many of the hopes and fantasies of the earlier twentieth century," Davis intones.
"We have some time to play with, but we're not out of the woods," an unnamed U.S. source intones ominously.