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...Bull from "Night Court...
...late 1985. Some Wall Street brokerage firms recently began selling a new product: warrants that allow investors to profit if the Tokyo market falls. But most investors do not fear a crash so much as a long, stubborn decline. If the January mood persists, the long-running bull market will go out not with a bang but with a long, drawn-out whimper...
...only are all the sachems of the nation's football tribes, living and dead, on hand for the Super Bowl, but bull corpocrats, not-yet indicted politicians and assorted overweeners from every power nexus in the nation have massed here, drawn to sport's most relentless weeklong party by forces they do not understand. They wear suits that are the worsted equivalent of stretch limos. Around these grandees, trophy wives orbit glossily. Some of them know the names of the teams ("The Denver, uh, Cowboys?"). Lacquered geishas trucked in for the occasion balance vaselike on bar stools...
...Citizen Turner," he says. "I was not answering it as Ted Turner, president of Turner Broadcasting. I was really sorry that I used that term." Still, Citizen Turner hasn't toned down his views. "These people ((antiabortionists)) talk about adoption as an alternative. That is a bunch of bull. The biggest problem we have in the world is the population explosion. There are 100 million kids in the world that are up for adoption right now. Adopt them...
...Raging Bull (1980). Realism so intense it transcends and transforms the ugly banalities of boxer Jake La Motta's life. The talents of Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese turn the film into a crazy-angry vision of the American Lower Depths...