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Some may consider this sheer perversity; however, I have a feeling that the fault lies with those two well-meaning gentlemen from Scarsdale, who, in labeling their unique game, neglected to suggest that it combines the skills of squash and tennis.
It could be bloody totalitarian murderous government, as in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, or it just could be the intrusive, well-meaning socialist governments all over Scandinavia, Europe, even the United States.
While most physicians remained committed to the general professional standard—do the best that you can for each individual patient— many well-meaning doctors ultimately were not delivering their patients the best care available.
You could interpret that as a story about well-meaning do-gooders who hurt the very people they're trying to help, but such an interpretation would be hard to defend.
Kate Winslet's first post- Titanic film, the tale of a British woman's journey to Marrakech in the 1970s in search of adventure and Sufi wisdom, gets high marks on aesthetics and so-so marks on plot: It's "better at creating a picturesque travelogue than at building a compelling narrative and full-bodied characters" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). The New York Times ' Janet Maslin goes gaga for the whole package, saying Winslet's performance as the naive young woman who drags her two daughters to the ends of the earth "perfectly captures [her] as a well-meaning mother who has no notion that she need be anything but self absorbed."
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