Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Witter firm for, among other things, libel, slander and interference with business relations. She is seeking a public retraction of the slurs in addition to $100,000 for lost income and, she hopes, an extra $500,000 or more in punitive damages. Says she: "I went bare in a bull market...
...despite what they might tell you over in Robinson Hall, history doesn't always repeat itself. Like the Union Army at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Harvard reversed history and charged past the Tigers to keep the streak alive and kicking. The final score was, you guessed...
...posit that this early film by now-recognizable stars might be a safe box-office bet. Although the movie reveals the then-burgeoning talents of co-director DePalma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out), actress Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman), and Robert DeNiro (The Godfather, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull), the film doesn't warrant renewed interest as if it were a resurrected unified piece of art. The public forgot it easily enough in 1969, and--not so strangely--it's as unremarkable...
...pair's adventures on the road (accompanied most of the way by John Mclntire, playing Whit's grandpa) are more in the nature of inconveniences than high drama. There are encounters with a cranky bull and a mean-minded con man who owes Red money, an interlude in a cathouse, and, most persistent, a girl named Marlene (Alexa Kenin), who has all the spunk she needs to become the singing star she dreams of being. Too bad she can't carry a tune...
ONLY THE RED BULL and a few other downright evil characters show glimpses of animated genius. Every detail of the red-pink bull steams with uncontrollable evil--especially the transparency of its imposing body. Two peripheral characters--Captain Cully the peg-legged pirate cat and a pile of bones forming a distorted skeleton--momentarily memorize the audience, as doss the terrifying flying beast Harpy, the evil counterpart of the unicorn. Otherwise, a dearth of fluid detail hampers the illusion...