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Kyle's mother could be speaking for the MPAA--which forced last-minute cuts in this "uncut" feature for the sake of an R rating--when she intones, "Horrific, deplorable violence is OK as long as people don't say any naughty words."
"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 .
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) ...
She lowers her voice a full octave and intones the words in a constrained fury--the voice not of Nora but of wronged women forever.
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."