Word: hounded
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...successful TV singer, and on down through door-to-door salesman, street peddler, gardener, handyman and tramp. He winds up living in a run-down tenement, selling canned "fresh air" door to door to help take care of a mumbling mongoloid boy and a drunken mongrel basset hound. One night he gets his head caught in a dog door that he humanely installed for his basset- and casually freezes to death...
...defense's case was even more picturesque than the prosecution's. Ira Dement, a sometimes-liberal lawyer with a hound-dawg face, cross-examined each of the black witnesses, always beginning with the question, "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" His defense case was as straightforward as it was absurd, consisting of character-witness testimony from assorted Klan members...
...young playwright of widely hailed promise, Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) is tick-tocking away with deadly superficiality in his new play, The Real Inspector Hound. This is a double-edged spoof on mystery plays and drama critics...
...critic is an avid lecher and blurb-confectioner, the other an intellectual exegete who would ponder the "human condition" in a pile of burning rubbish. Just such rubbish is put before both men in a fatuous mystery play. In a way, Hound is a miniaturized travesty of R. and G., since the two critics cannot grasp the play they are watching any better than R. and G. could fathom Hamlet. The critics become unintentionally involved in the action and are both shot to death. Stoppard is a ' word mimic and a born parodist. But parody is parasitic and needs...
...other half of the book, Albert Handley-a middle-aged madcap painter presiding over a whole circus of a family in Lincolnshire-rages against the sudden wealth and new-found fame threatening his old bohemian way of life. His children pester him for money, journalists hound him for interviews. Visions of unborn paintings torment his days and nights. He, too, claims to be a revolutionary-making money so that he can tear down the social structure that feeds...