Yes it is, and that's what suffuses every one of their scenes together, whether they're comparing meds, turning a misbegotten meal at a diner into an encounter of urgent intimacy or lowering their defenses long enough to practice for a dance competition that isn't as crazy as it seems.

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It seems Google is going out of its way to make it clear that this isn't a mass market device, with Chrome OS still in the beta stage, and no apparent intentions to compete with third parties in the hardware space.

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After a missed opportunity following the financial crisis, there seems to be recognition in Washington that more needs to be done, and it isn't just a matter of extracting more settlement dollars that hurts shareholders.

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And in case that seems to leave brawny manual labourers still sunk in tears, isn't it these same men who drive the trains, fight the fires and hold society in thrall to their skill at mending motors and fixing the plumbing?

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But the structure seems sound, and it isn't giving anything away to disclose what viewers almost immediately learn via flashback: That Nick was an ex-cop serving 25-years at Sing Sing, where he fought with other inmates and revealed to the prison psychiatrist that, yes, he thinks about killing himself all the time.

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