Word: bullish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago, TIME'S Board of Economists went out on a long limb and predicted that the then feeble recovery would gain enough strength in 1972 to produce the first $100 billion gain in gross national product ever recorded by any country. That bullish forecast has turned out to be slightly too conservative: the advance for this year will turn out to be some $101 billion. The board now predicts that 1973 will be even better, with a G.N.P. rise of around $110 billion, to the elevated area of $ 1,262 billion...
Fried Chicken. Yet, for all their difficulties, the NATO conventioneers and other movie-theater owners (checked around the country by TIME correspondents) seem to be adapting to the straitened times. On paper, at least, some of the statistics are even bullish. In the first six months of this year, the industry opened 123 new theaters and began construction on 152 more. Nevertheless, the nationwide total of theater seats and parking slots (about 30% of U.S. theaters are drive-ins) is not necessarily rising, because the big downtown theaters are coming down. The trend is toward suburban minitheaters with...
...well cast that they seem to have grown up next door to the precinct house. Gene Hackman plays Popeye Doyle, who likes to ogle girls in boots, break heads and bust blacks; Roy Scheider is his dogged, if only slightly less compulsive, assistant. Eddie Egan plays their boss with bullish authenticity-as well he might since he is an ex-cop who figured in the actual incident on which the movie was based...
...Chief, who comes looking for fires, but instead ravishes the Maid, and then leaves in search of his Ideal. The play ends in a very uncivil brawl, with the Martins and the Smiths shouting nonsense syllables at each other. Underlying it all is a supreme non-intelligence, the John Bullish buck-up-chaps mentality. The Maid expresses it well when she looks at a content Mr. and Mrs. Martin--"Let's not try to know. Let's leave things as they are." The way things are, however, is vacuous and inane, shot through with hypocrisy and hatred. The movement...
Jean-François Revel has been described by Mary McCarthy as having a "bullish" aspect, a "broad-browed, head-lowered promise of some intransigent charge into the arena." With critical hoofs stamping and literary horns waggling, what Revel gores is myths. After teaching in Florence, for instance, he wrote a book suggesting, among other heresies, that Italian men are far less virile than popular legend...