"<< I own just one wrist watch---a simple thing with an elegant dial and a leather wrist band. It's a Stauer. I don't know if that's an expensive brand or not, but it looks it. It's one of those self-winding watches, by the motion of your wrist and…"
"<< I'm also wondering how the son -- who was later seen to be able to turn into a bat -- couldn't just bat himself out of that ankle cuff. >>
The horror experts out there -- you know who you are -- will poiint out that the shackel was silver, and…"
"Brides of Dracula is a favorite of mine. Somehow, Hammer made an effective follow-up to their Dracula, despite not having Christopher Lee. There's an understated (necessarily) perverse elemenbt in the plot -- one critic said it evoked Tennessee…"
""But, one could infer that Superman had programmed safeguards in the Super-Univac to thwart any secret-identity-prying questions."
That makes sense. I remember that, in the Fortress, Superman had a "Clark Kent" exhibit in his "Gallerty of My Best…"
""The three were selected because they have the same height, weight and eye color as Supergirl. (Another reason not to make everything in her life a matter of public record.) It’s a little hard to believe that only three girls in the entire college…"
""... The resolution to the apparent contrtradiction in Argo City being hurled away from the destructing Krypton by the force of the explosion and the rocket tubes installed in Argo City's asterioid foundation by Zor-El is contained within "The…"
"Y'r welcome!
I shouldn't have invoked Howard Cosell here. To be fair: when Howard wanted to say that something happened, he'd say that it eventuated.
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"I have a thing about the word "transpire," which is useful in discussing things once unknown but subsequently acknowledged. Too many writers use it as an uppity synonym for "happen." We don't need other ways to say "it happened." Turning a unique,…"