Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picked for this critical assignment. Over the years, he had won a reputation for fierce ambition and abrasive self-promotion. His ego and aggressiveness, it was said, did not suit the delicate job of constructing a Balkan peace settlement. As one colleague put it, Holbrooke is like "a bull who takes his own china shop with...
Fearing that a prolonged budget battle could kill the bull market, several major corporate business leaders took out a two-page ad in today's New York Times urging Washington to end the stalemate. The ad, which was published in the form of a letter addressed to President Clinton, Sen. Dole, House Speaker Gingrich and other congressional leaders, says the President and Congress should: use Congressional Budget Office projections; take no longer than seven years to balance the budget; ensure the process of deficit reduction is achieved evenly, rather than "backloading" difficult political decisions until the next century...
Cool is something these folks wear like a dinner jacket; their offhand wit is so studied that their bull sessions seem like a final they crammed for. But the writer-director is canny enough to salt the stew with poignance, so that by the end these attitude machines have become human beings--more than the sum of their chiseled jokes. Baumbach is a find, of sorts: he has both comic sense and camera sense. Imagine Quentin Tarantino without the guns...
...college whose motto is veritas, Harvard has long suffered from an excess of bull, whether from gov-jocks shoveling it in section or pre-frosh trying to impress their hosts. With several presidential candidates and political gurus having visited in recent weeks, the problem has only grown worse...
Starring Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci, Scorsese's latest gangster morality tale continues a collaboration that began with the brilliant "Raging Bull" 15 years ago. Add to this mix the stunning Sharon Stone, whose acting ability is finally apparent, and stylish Hollywood cinematographer Robert Richardson and it is clear that any fault of "Casino" is not due to a lack of talent on the set. Rather it is this film's ambitious script which gambles...