The utter evil of the Nazis will always make World War Two appear as a "good" war, but that can be perilous when it comes to thinking about war in general: if every enemy is a Hitler and every war nostalgically framed as WWII redux, we become vulnerable to the jingoism of
bull-necked recruiters.
Henry was nineteen years old,
bull-necked, stocky and freckled, a man of electric energy and ferocious impatience, compelling charm and an ungovernable temper.
This killing motivation compels them further than they had intended: "They didn't mean to go in, to actually go down into the lip of the tunnel, but in their need to kill it all, all of it, to wipe from the face of the earth the work of the thin-armed Virginia boys, the
bull-necked Greeks and the knife-faced men who waved the leaf-dead promise, they went too deep, too far ..." (161-62).
Yet Graham's stocky 5'11",
bull-necked frame deals not with teaching the finer points of a good scrum, but the wisdom of whether to have a finger buffet or a fork tea.
And much later that night, I was chatting at the Bambi, spelled B-a-m-b-l, Cafe with this
bull-necked ex-welder with a shock of white hair who had gone off into the desert (with a piece of cardboard, that's what you lie on) instead of murdering his wife and her TWO lovers.
With occasional exceptions, such as a picture of an 1860 London omnibus, the 158 illustrations are invaluable: production photographs by Alfred Ellis, ink-and-wash performance sketches by Jellicoe, Seppings Wright, and 'A.E.', costumier's drawings, a curiously moving photograph of a theatre queue, pictures of gorgeous modern-looking actresses and of small
bull-necked and cubic-headed actors, looking oddly bourgeois and old-fashioned.
On one of their drinking nights together she explains to Martin that she "cannot see much that would explain why so many of these intelligent, attractive, and sensible women would want to spend more than a couple of days with him." To get on with her study, she feels that she cannot become too one-sided: "I need to project myself into that great big,
bull-necked head.
Thesping is uniformly strong, including the
bull-necked Russo, whose sullen demeanor is tailormade for Michele--or is it viceversa?
They're mostly
bull-necked lard monsters in replica football tops wobbling down the high street, pimply ratboy hoodies, goofy students, a range of life one evolutionary rung up from the carpet slipper.
#The Roonians - Stocky,
bull-necked aliens with an insatiable appetite for cheeseburgers.
The
bull-necked Sutton loves to talk the talk but it is Langer's steely-eyed men who are walking the walk.
Looking at some of the
bull-necked competitors of what is essentially a street fight,having half a dozen normal arms would probably leave your average actor nursing their bruises.
