Another tells of a clumsy wizard who caused a rainbow to collapse into the Lago di Carezza, a lake which still glows a luminous green to this day.

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"We know today that only 50% of women with health care benefits are getting screened, " said Brinker, who said the task force was clumsy in the delivery of its message.

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Luhrmann's response is more rapturous and unruly -- and, perhaps, this brings it closest of all to the spirit of the emotionally clumsy but romantic dreamer who created this enduring story in the first place.

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They invariably do so accompanied by the audible gasp of the paying customers on board who shuffle around the boat like a clumsy congregation of penguins, grateful that they won't be asked to leave the relative warmth of their polar suits.

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Gareth Saxe is appropriately boorish as Chip Bohlen, the American CIA agent who intrudes upon the Russians' gathering with clumsy bonhomie, his not-so-subtle threats putting a face to the general feeling of U.S. government dominance.

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When it acted, it was clumsy, angering the majority of voters who say education is their top concern.

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His reputation among family members was as a clumsy guy with an infectious sense of humor who enjoyed jogging and playing basketball with his friends.

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On Tuesday, Miller -- who succeeded Shulman as IRS commissioner last November -- admitted he helped engineer a clumsy public disclosure of the controversy through a planted question at an American Bar Association event on May 10.

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