Word: hmm
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...title card says this King Arthur, grimly directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), is based on the latest research into the mythic past. Maybe so. But one can't help thinking the research that really counted was that into the more recent box-office charts. Hmm, look at those grosses for The Lord of the Rings. Must be some other old stuff we could turn into some sort of spectacle. So clang, clang, clang go the broadswords, swish, swish, swish go the flights of arrows, and twitch, twitch, twitch go our bottoms in the seats. There's too much realism...
Holter tosses me the keys, and we cruise Los Angeles' west side. Hmm. Nice pickup. Lots of room. A smooth ride--no wimpy golf-cart feel as in some smaller hybrids. At slow speeds, the quiet gas engine disengages and a virtually silent electric motor takes over. Unless I were blindfolded--not a great idea while driving any car--I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the Escape Hybrid and the gas-only model. But there's one important difference: this green machine averages 35 m.p.g. off the highway--15 m.p.g. more than the regular Escape--proving...
...When my own esteemed webitors, Josh Macht and Mark Coatney, noticed that this column was nearing the century mark, they suggested I give the same treatment to That Old Feeling (TOF to insiders). Hmm... celebrate myself? Orate dewily on my night job? Reiterate the sacred precepts of cultural anachronism? I?m not sure, guys. Twist my arm some more...
...have only recently started doing it. Now I am a bit more, Hmm, maybe I won't wear that bright pink neon fluffy hat. But other times you just stick your hand in the closet, pull anything out and go, Whatever! --Reported by Camilla Morton...
...Hmm, I think it’s about time to write on a new and fresh sports issue, something Brenda and I haven’t discussed yet. I know...