Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much. The trouble was that it did not develop; it was frozen by celebrity, like a deer in a jacklight beam. In the '80s Basquiat was made a cult figure by a money-glutted, corrupt and wholly promotional art-marketing system. He died in 1988, a year before the bull market collapsed and took his prices down with it. Now the same system, bruised but essentially unchanged, is trying to revalidate those prices in hard times by strumming on the theme that Victimhood Is Powerful. What has descended on Basquiat is not the "silent purple toga of Immortality...
Maybe that's how it should be: pit-bull women, right-wing women, feminist women -- all kinds of women in all their glorious diversity. Nothing in our genes, after all, says we have to be kinder, gentler and more committed to family leave. But with women's representation in national politics still barely above presuffrage levels, it was only natural that most of the new female candidates would define themselves as women on a mission. Trailblazing is not a job for the uncommitted...
...Night" marks the second big-screen outing as director for Irwin Winkler, whose first film, "Guilty by Suspicion," also starred Robert DeNiro. In the future, however, he should stick to his strong suit--producing films: "Raging Bull," "Goodfellas," "Rocky" and "The Right Stuff" are among his best (and best-known) productions...
...Anyone who knows her would know that thecharges against her are bull," Gabay added."Furthermore, she had nothing to gain by thevictory of either candidate...
...panicking in reaction to sudden downdrafts, stockholders have avoided the kind of rush for the exits that can result in a major crash. After the election, the decisive struggle will be waged on Wall Street. It will be the oldest fight of all: the battle between bull and bear to determine the direction of the stock market during the next four years...