Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strauss, who heads the combined opposition of Christian Democrats and Christian Socialists, calls the campaign West Germany's "dirtiest ever." He has also taken the brunt of abuse, since his round face, bull neck and stocky shape delight cartoonists, and his flowery, right-wing rhetoric provides opponents with plenty of verbal ammunition. Strauss has long been a béte noire for many West Germans; his decision to seek the nation's most important political office has galvanized his enemies into a frenzy of mudslinging...
Colonel Wilbur ("Bull") Meechum, U.S.M.C., is one of nature's hard cases...
...Marine Corps runs, does not walk, through his veins. He is tough on his men, his family, himself. Everyone's back hairs stand at attention when Bull Meechum marches into the room. Once, in that great good war against Hitler, Bull was a genuine air ace with a heroic nom de guerre: the Great Santini. Now, in 1962, when only statesmen get to go eyeball to eyeball with the enemy, Bull finds himself out of meaningful work - orchestrating practice missions in the skies over Beaufort, S.C. He might as well be running the shooting-gallery concession at a penny...
...novel without much cinematic grace, but the artlessness serves the subject and showcases three splendid performances: Blythe Banner as the willowy, resilient Lillian Meechum; Michael O'Keefe as 18-year-old Ben, his father's cross and joy; and, above all, Robert Duvall as the raging Bull-sacred monster, gung-ho dinosaur, one-man nuclear-family holocaust-who can do everything except express what he feels for the people he loves...
...Ford's housemotherly approach. Says blond Lisa Murrell, 24, a "bread-and-butter girl" who poses for many mail-order catalogues, and has twice quit and returned to Casablancas: "I feel comfortable and confident with John. He's got so much finesse. He may be full of bull, but he does it so well...