Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Huckster. The Seattle Opera is accustomed to thinking along several lines. In only eleven years it has become one of the major U.S. companies, largely due to the efforts of a former Golden Gloves lightweight from Omaha named Glynn Ross. He has been called everything from a publicity hound to the hip huckster of grand opera. He loves promoting. "Get ahead with Salome," read the shameless pun on one poster...
...superb tactician who can play hound or hare with equal skill...
...loose. And in a word-spitting duel like the Questions Game (where each must retort with a question), the verbal fireworks are dazzling. Chris Minkowski, a properly regal Claudius, looks like he's still savoring his triumph as last fall's production of Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound. The mimed deaths of the Tragedians, choreography by David Fechtor, resemble the last writhing gasps of fish drowning in air, and coordinate well with the heavy rope-netting...
...just a "publicity hound," grumbled Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. following the latest trouble with his pet Great Dane, C5. Three years ago the dog (which was named after the armed forces plane because he "grew like a military contract") chomped on the hand of Missouri Democrat James Symington. After an exile in his Indiana doghouse, C-5 finally returned to Washington, and last week Jacobs threw a welcoming party. Symington himself came by and, to show his good will, offered the dog some cheese. To show his good taste, C-5 bit Symington on the hand again. Said...
...Fisher characterizes as a "prickly sort of character, a muckraker," made his name in the 1890s in Chicago by wrenching the foul control of the traction-barons, or street-car franchises, off City Hall. And because President William Howard Taft wanted a man who was as "pure as a hound's tooth," as Frank Fisher tells it, to head the Department of the Interior, he went to the provinces and summoned Walter L. Fisher. Walter T. Fisher '13 also made his name in Chicago, 30 years after his father as a lawyer whom his son says used his practice...