Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...languages he either speaks or understands -the expression is a kochleffl (a stirrer-up of the pot). Even his relaxations are strenuous. Says Leonard Bernstein: "You should play tennis with him some time. My God, the force, the velocity of those balls! He's a bull out there...
...some harder licks of his own. He staggered Leonard with an overhand right in the second round and landed a series of punishing shots in the third and fourth. Feinting and crouching to avoid Leonard's left, Duran muscled his opponent around the ring, charging like a bull at times...
...Birmingham, Ala., blacks have elected a black mayor and wield much more power than in the days of the celebrated civil rights crusades. Yet black anger at the white-dominated police force is almost as intense as it was when Police Commissioner Bull Connor and his snarling dogs gained national notoriety...
...heart of this weird scene stands a mechanical bull that bucks and cork screws in a very good approximation of a real rodeo bull. Riding it, the urban cow boy literally risks his manhood and, of course, gains the admiring attention of the urban cowgirls. Some of them also try their luck on this contraption and this threatens the males...
...named Bud (Travolta) meets both the mechanical steer and Sissy (Debra Winger, who gives the picture's best performance), his bride-to-be, soon after he arrives in town. Before long they are acting out a parody of western drama. Restless and feisty, she wants to become a bull rider too. Bud disapproves, just as he does of her flirtation with an ex-con named Wes (Scott Glenn, who looks tough enough for the part but does not act it). Wes is extraordinarily adept at staying on the bucking machine, and soon enough Sissy has moved in with...