Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harrow smiles from behind his horn-rimmed sunglasses. "I know," he says, but I'm comfortable here." A1 Harrow knows deep down that he is sitting in the hot sun in his olive green suit and hound's tooth the to have something to do. But no one is laughing out loud at him, and he is having a fine time playing Lou Harris for the afternoon...
...meet up with an unshaven, long-haired radical of the type that used to hound me when I was President. He wears a peace sign on his tattered denim jacket. Arms shackled around his back--like the rest of us--he speaks softly after recognizing me with a double-take...
Wearing a blue suit and a basset-hound expression, the burly man sat calmly last week in the witness chair of Atlanta's federal district court, facing the jammed courtroom. "My name is Thomas Bertram Lance," he boomed out. Thus, 2½ years after he was forced to resign as Jimmy Carter's Budget Director, eleven months after he was indicted for bank fraud and three months after his trial began, Bert Lance finally got his day in court...
Toby faces a difficult acting problem. He should be charming enough to be loved by Monica but disquieting enough to terrify Baba. The Toby in this performance (Joseph Lee) strikes a compromise somewhere between charm and dumb-foundedness, coming off somewhat like a sad hound. Toby is less of a presence than he could be, making Monica's love look more like pity and Baba's fear only the fear of silence itself...
...case that provides the opportunity for opposites to attract is the dognaping of a champion schnauzer by a trainer (Harry Dean Stanton) with a bad gambling debt to pay off. The victim, besides the hound, is a poor little rich girl (Barbara Babcock), who regards the pooch as the only good thing in her life. The crime is just ludicrous enough to penetrate Valnikov's self-absorption. Besides, he is a pet lover himself (he has a parakeet and a gerbil). Galvanized, he begins to notice Natalie and then to woo her with Russian vodka and folk songs, notably...