Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrested, his main effort?and his lawyer's?is to get the case thrown out on some legal technicality, and he often succeeds. In a San Francisco police squad room, the cops toss darts at an unusual board. Its rings are labeled: Investigate further, Admonish, Cite, and the bull's-eye is Complaint withdrawn. Police Lieut. George Rosko sums up the whole juvenile process: "It fosters the kid's belief that he can beat the system. He goes through the court, comes back to the neighborhood, and he's a hero...
BULLETIN: Actress Farrah Fawcett-Majors was kidnaped today by a large white bull as she prepared to jog nude around the Central Park Reservoir to popularize physical fitness. Amid a crackle of thunderbolts, the bull leaped an 8-ft. chain-link fence with Fawcett-Majors on its back, and swam off with her in the direction of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Witnesses said that the animal bellowed several times in what seemed to be Greek. Park authorities were investigating the disappearance...
These characters and their struggle to emerge intact from their '60s idealism, are the focus of the film, for the plot which frames that struggle is pure cliche. The big, bad conglomerate is just too predictably bull-headed, so intent on lancing any threats to its authority that journalistic quality ceases to matter. On the other hand, the idyllic days of hard-nosed investigative reporting, exposes and journalism prizes emerge in vague, rosy-colored hues through the sheen of memory. Sitting in bed after a bout of adultery with Harry, Laura rummages through a sheaf of old photographs and reminisces...
...good anymore, and although physical violence did not seem likely, I thought it best not to remain in such a plainly hostile environment. The subway ride home was more than humiliating; every derelict in the "F" train looked like he was about to approach me with a papal bull of excommunication...
...film does not shrink from portraying the natives as largely a benighted, scruffy lot who are driven to practicing their own reciprocal racism. Two uncomprehending priests, being borne in divans by sweating natives, are charmed by a work song that actually says, "My white man is fat as a bull and his feet stink...