Word: hounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novelist loses control when Leonard falls under the influence of Victor Tolson, a muscular, mindless working-class homosexual who lives in the housing project that surrounds the Radcliffe mansion. Tolson lurks about the shrubbery like the hound of the Baskervilles, and sexual symbols parade through the paragraphs wearing sandwich signs. Superfluous minor characters become infected with the author's garrulity, deliver portentous sermons, and then drift off to irresolution. The dry prose becomes dewy. There are long, dare-taking sex scenes of the kind that, in he-she form, would seem overwritten in a Frank Yerby novel. Storey...
...thoughts that are the raw material for his books. Cheever even then seemed to have an infinite capacity for wonder, was constantly fascinated with how close reality came to the fantastic. He began to place an occasional story-earning him $25 in Story or little more than prestige in Hound & Horn. With such encouragement and support, he moved into New York's Greenwich Village, met Dos Passes, E. E. Cummings, James Agee, Hart Crane, Ben Shahn, Gaston Lachaise...
...General Mills-by doggedly making breakfast and cereal synonymous. The company preaches nutrition and flavor with countless advertise ments, 15 television shows (including the top-ranked Beverly Hillbillies) and afternoon cartoon shows on 180 local stations that feature such fetching salesmen as Yogi Bear, Woody Woodpecker and Huckleberry Hound. All this has helped put four Kellogg cereals-Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Special K and Sugar Frosted Flakes-among the industry's top seven sellers...
...PONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A man whose son died in a German extermination camp hires an Englishman (John Mills) to hound a former Nazi (Curt Jurgens) when he leaves prison after serving 15 years for war crimes. Color...
...second of category: hound. Only other hound to win best dog at Westminster since the club began the category in 1907 was an Afghan: Shirkhan of Grandeur...