Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politics, Murray was more successful than Lewis. Roosevelt often called Murray over to the White House for a quick nip and an evening's bull session (but he could never get Murray into evening clothes for a formal dinner). Murray was not as close to Truman (whom he called "the little governor") but eventually got an embarrassing avalanche of help from the Truman Administration, which culminated in Truman's impetuous seizure of Big Steel (TiME, April...
Focusing on the Germany around him, Grosz became one of the most savage satirists in modern art. His enraged cartoons of blood-spitting consumptives, marble-jawed army officers, mincing whores and bull-necked burghers provoked Hitler to call him "cultural Bolshevist No 1." Grosz hated Germany, and he yearned to live in the U.S. His sketchbooks were filled with dreamy portraits of himself as a cowboy or an Indian chief, his room plastered with U.S. posters on which he inscribed mythical greetings to himself from Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller...
...Roman Catholic dogma of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption to Heaven as seen by an age newly aware of nuclear physics. But why the rhinoceros horns? Most important, says Catholic Dali. "The rhinoceros horn embodies a mystic feeling similar to that of bullfighting. The bull is a Spanish god who sacrifices himself. Bullfighters are his priests. " Says Dali, who plans to show his Madonna in Manhattan this Christmas season: "I have reached the maximum of expression and neo-mysticism...
This is only one of the unusual points of Bullfighter from Brooklyn. For bull fighting is a highly emotional adventure it in hard to believer that a man. American of that, who has spent his adult life in the trade, can have no feelings or opinions on the matter. If he has Franklin doesn't reveal them anywhere in the story of his life...
Humor of this sort seldom shakes the belly. Instead it shakes the mind, working on it like a picador on a bull...