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Each bite tastes like a season in itself — sweet, comforting and stubbornly insistent that summer doesn’t have to leave all at once.

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But his first Emmy hosting gig revealed an insistent tone deafness that he could not steer out of, and it made a parade of worthwhile wins into a slog.

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Songs are by turns epic, edgy, spacey and insistent.

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But among the pristine greens and carefully sculpted fairways of his luxury resorts there is no escaping those urgent, insistent questions about hunger and suffering among the ruins of war.

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The docuseries’ insistent focus on placing the survivors’ histories first leaves it to the first responders who were on the ground to sort the mess from a logistical point of view.

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