Word: bulled
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...when he favored rambling meetings and corridors crowded with young aides. But he's still Bill Clinton. Even after Hillary has turned in for the night, he's prone to drift to the West Wing offices--the presidential equivalent of a walk on the wild side--for late-night bull sessions...
When Asia started sinking late last year, few of the highly paid stock market mavens in the U.S. worried much about any ripples reaching home. Too distant, too little. Too bad. But the arrogance has begun to fade. Our unstoppable bull market in stocks has, well, stopped. It is now apparent that the Far East's economic troubles have become too deep to dismiss...
Since his 1962 debut as Boo Radley, the monster and savior of two Alabama children in To Kill a Mockingbird, Duvall has given more than their due to some indelible movie creatures. The names Frank Burns (MASH), Tom Hagen (The Godfather), Lieut. Colonel Kilgore (Apocalypse Now), Bull Meechum (The Great Santini), Mac Sledge (Tender Mercies) and Gus McCrae (Lonesome Dove) summon sharp, overlapping impressions. The odor of anachronism hangs on most of these characters; they are uneasy with and suspicious of the modern world. While everyone else has gone slack and disorderly, they mulishly hew to an old or private...
...story opens, narrator Jane Goodall, 30 ("not the Jane Goodall, but sometimes I think it was my name that led me from men to cows, from cows to monkeys, and then to all my research and theories"), introduces the Old-Cow-New-Cow theory. Bull meets Cow. They mate. Soon, Bull wants New Cow. Jane, a TV talk-show booker, is, in a nutshell, Old Cow. After spending two heady months with the show's executive producer, Ray, she agrees to move in with him. They find the perfect apartment, she surrenders her precious Manhattan lease--then inexplicably...
...desperation Jane rents a room from her colleague Eddie, a quintessential Bull who, like Jane, is reeling from a broken love affair. While Eddie salves his loneliness by bed hopping with New Cows, Jane wallows in the feelings of unworthiness and unlovability endemic in Old Cows. "When Ray dumped me, all I wanted to know was why," she explains. "I almost think that's worse than the act itself--the not knowing." Only when her best female friend is also dumped does Jane begin to sense that it's the bulls, not the cows, who have the greater problem, giving...