Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Bork, the White House devised a sort of Ferdinand the Bull strategy for future nominees: it taught them to win by refusing to engage. "There isn't much that the Senate can do about rejecting a nominee or thwarting the President. All a nominee has to say is, 'I have an open mind,' " says Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan Law School. With that strategy, the White House easily slipped through the innocuous but no less conservative Anthony Kennedy and the enigmatic David Souter. Says Kamisar: "The lesson is that the Bork hearings were an aberration...
...stamina of a bull, the courage of a lion." Provided, of course, that he gets eight hours of sleep plus "nappies." He drinks "medicinal" sherry on the rocks at four o'clock every afternoon. He smokes expensive cigars. He's a chocoholic. His sex life is mostly a memory. ("A happy memory, but a memory...
...years, as they watched Mikhail Gorbachev bull his way through history, remaking his country, his era and himself, Soviets and Westerners alike wondered whether there was anything he couldn't do. Wasn't there some innovation so radical, or some capitulation so abject, that he simply couldn't get away with it? Like scientists pondering the limits of an anomalous but potent force of nature, Kremlinologists speculated about the existence of a "red line" that Gorbachev could not cross without reaping the whirlwind...
Dull speaking, in Costner's case, is an emblem of miscasting. The character of Robin Hood demands emotional exuberance -- not Costner's forte. He does not spring; he is coiled. He is a reactive actor; audiences enjoy watching him think. In Bull Durham, Field of Dreams and Dances with Wolves he played, quite persuasively, cynics who find something to believe in. But Nottinghamshire is no place for California dreamin'. Perhaps, in the two recent movies about legendary princes, the stars should have swapped roles. Mel Gibson could have been a dashing Robin Hood and Costner a provocative Hamlet...
Investments ranging from art to real estate are suffering from depression nowadays, but the bidding for elk horn is still going strong. Boy Scouts in Jackson, Wyo., who each year auction off the antlers shed by bull elk at the nearby National Elk Refuge, earlier this month collected a total of $76,177, or about $11.20 per lb. The price per pound has been rising about 50 cents annually, thanks in part to Asian bidders who can sell ground elk horn for as much as $300 per oz. because of its purported aphrodisiac and medicinal qualities. But this year Korean...