Slender, sheathed in black leather, with short ebony hair sticking up in a tuft, her fingers sticking out of black woollen gloves as they skitter across a keyboard, Mara cuts through scene after scene like a swift, dark blade.

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Mr Livingstone said the current mayor's fingerprints were "all over the scene of the crime" of current cuts.

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Then, abruptly, he cuts to a tranquil-looking country scene and a very different kind of story.

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Though the film is divided into separate sections, the stories are interwoven both in the direction, with a character from one story walking through another's scene, and in the editing, in montage cuts that juxtapose different narrative threads.

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And cuts in Medicare and Medicaid are rare, since the elderly are a powerful bloc on the Washington scene.

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