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"We have some time to play with, but we're not out of the woods," an unnamed U.S. source intones ominously.
There's only orchestration," intones the investment banker--Wolff imagines a public company worth several hundred million dollars.
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) ...
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."
He was a wise old man," intones Mrs. Coetzee--this, observes John, is the only time he has heard his mother use the word "wise").