Word: hmmm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to spend time in a labyrinth, these are the kind of guys to do it with--tough, canny realists who can follow a tangled thread to daylight. Well, hmmm, daylight. There's not much of that in L.A. Confidential. It's a movie of shadows and half lights, the best approximation of the old black-and-white noir look anyone has yet managed on color stock. But it's no idle exercise in style. The film's look suggests how deep the tradition of police corruption runs. And that, paradoxically, makes it as outrageous (and outraging) as tomorrow...
...mysterious things being written about how we've handled things. I've read reports that we've taken the lesbian past of Mrs. Stanton out of the story. Well, I've read the book five times, and we didn't take it out--it's simply not there." Hmmm. Has Kenneth Starr looked into this...
...Drosnin says that the future can be foretold via patterns of words found in the Jewish Torah. Hmmm. Following an elaborate decoding system of my own creation, I have deduced that the letters in the name Michael Drosnin can be rearranged to spell out the mysterious phrase "Him conn'd Israel." Any message in that? ERIC BENDER Kirkland...
...wash for those in the highest tax bracket: a stock bought at $100 and rising 10% a year for a decade generates an after-tax profit of about $125 in either tax scheme. Now, all those who think inflation will remain at 3% forever, raise your hands. Hmmm, just what I thought. The risk is that inflation will pick up, and at just 4% annual inflation the numbers start to make indexing a better deal for individuals. That, unfortunately, translates into a cost for the government and may be seen as a budget buster...
Four hours after the press conference, the Indiana Pacers announced that Bird--No. 33 in the rafters--was their new coach. Bird will get an estimated $4.5 million a year to return home. His predecessor, Larry Brown, was just lured to the Philadelphia 76ers for $5 million a year. Hmmm. Kind of makes Phil Jackson wonder what he's worth, what with the Chicago Bulls headed for another title...