Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Director Scorcese: what can one say about a man who can go from Raging Bull to King of Hearts to After Hours without missing a beat? Aiming at a younger audience this time with stars Arquette and Dunne, Scorcese is sure to garner a loyal following among the under-20s rushing to get a glimpse of New York After Hours...
...certain highly enjoyable level, After Hours is the year's best shaggy- dog story. But it is also a subtle exercise in comedic and cinematic stylization by Director Martin Scorsese. In films as varied as Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The King of Comedy, he has established himself as our leading poet-anthropologist of the contemporary urban landscape, an artist with a special feeling for the near psychopathic outsider, battering brutally but ineptly on the doors of bourgeois normality. In this movie, working on a $3.5 million shoestring, he has cunningly reversed himself. For Joseph Minion...
...Lions just missed their third touchdown of the afternoon when a wide-open John Pennywell let a Santos flare pass slip away, but Chirico came back on the next play to bull the ball to the Harvard 1-yd. line...
...fought to expunge the American original sin (slavery) and to save the dream and the power. It was all of Homer and Shakespeare come to the New World. It was the American discovery of tragedy, and of modern death, proceeding from the jaunty, clumsy toy soldiering of First Bull Run to Sherman's scorched earth and Grant's trench slaughter, which were a moral preview of the 20th century...
...crumpled sides of a child's tin train, theater tickets, cigarette packs, fragments of type and stenciled numbers, snatches from headlines and posters, feathers, wisps of cotton wool and gauze for atmospheric effect, wheels, burlap, glass, photos, a shooter's target with a neat group punched in the bull's-eye and, after his emigration to England on the eve of World War II, part of a food-ration book--are emblems of their changing times, sharp and pathetic by turns...