Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such behavior made Kimble numerous friends among the young in the opulent enclave of Beverly Hills, but many of their parents and some of his own force were not enchanted. Accusing him of being, among other things, a "publicity hound," the Beverly Hills City Council two weeks ago voted by 3 to 2 to fire him from the $19,500 job he had held for a year...
Peter Shaffer, whose succès de spectacle was The Royal Hunt of the Sun, plays a labored game of "hound the humanist" in The Battle of Shrivings. Sir Gideon Petrie (John Gielgud) is an aged, Bertrand Russell-like champion of rationalism living ascetically at Shrivings, a converted medieval abbey in the Cotswold Hills. From there he guides a peace movement and blandly preaches the perfectibility of human nature to youthful acolytes and to his wife (Wendy Hiller), with whom he renounced sex, on principle...
...healthy as a hound dog. He lifts weights, jogs, does pushups, plays squash on his lunch hour and likes to get out there with the kids and make like Joe Namath. Yet, in his prolonged obsession with physical prowess, the middle-age fitness fanatic may be exceptionally vulnerable to mental illness...