Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many pictures in After Daguerre, however, convey a sense of joy in the world, a delight in vision as if it were some magic new gift, which painting had lost and would not acquire again until the triumph of impressionism. In a picture labeled simply The Hound "Balliveau," no pains have been taken with composition. The subject is tied to a barn wall. To see the picture, though, is to brood on the look of this ungainly dog as if a new species had just been invented. And in the best landscapes by Gustave Le Gray, one can almost...
...main worries about having become a focus of inordinate public attention is that the cameramen who hound her every move might upset the children at her school...
...once had the FBI "sweep" the conference room, but Douglas remained suspicious, since he thought the FBI probably put the bugs there in the first place. And the feisty old jurist, who originally planned to retire from the Supreme Court in 1969, vowed to stay on until "the last hound dog had stopped snapping at my heels." Sick and in pain, he did finally outlast Nixon. When he left the high court in 1975, he had served 36 years, longer than any other Justice in U.S. history...
...rock hero's death. Pennsylvania Sculptor Eric Parks modeled his work both on photos of the Pelvis and the celebrated head of Hermes by Praxiteles. Parks also primed himself for the project by studying scores of books and video tapes of the singer and absorbing untold decibels of Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock. Miniatures of the statue will be marketed in the future; meanwhile Parks is turning his chisel to another paean to Presley: a drooling hound dog fountain, with no known Greek antecedents...
...Washington. At a press conference eerily like those conducted by the militants in Tehran, where the 52 American hostages have been held since Nov. 4, the Iranians denounced what they called police brutality during their recent imprisonment. Joining the Iranians in the mosque was Mark Lane, the publicity-hound attorney, who has been out of the headlines since 1978 when he was retained by Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in the Guyana jungle. After police-escorted vans finally took the Iranians from the mosque, New York Mayor Koch exclaimed: "They're not students, they're provocateurs. They should...