Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...video hound, a furry mutt, fetches video bones and "responds" to a few commands (if given in a predetermined order). The felines frolic with balls of string...
...prescription for the Democrats in the likely event of a deadlocked convention. Cuomo probably won't run, Nixon says, because he doesn't want to have his family "cut up by the national media." The party's last best hope (are you ready?): Ted Kennedy. "If the media hound Kennedy over that tragic accident 19 years ago, they might well help him rather than hurt him -- and also help land themselves in the political doghouse...
...rabid publicity hound (he posed for a magazine fashion spread knocking down two pillars, a la Samson), Livingstone disarms critics with his self- deprecating humor. If he ever becomes Prime Minister, Livingstone once joked, "so many people will leave the country that I'll have no unemployment problem." An animal fancier who keeps newts and lizards, Livingstone may never reach 10 Downing Street, but his irreverence will probably help keep him on the public stage for years to come. That is, if he doesn't tire of playing the flamboyant maverick. "Anyone who enjoys being in the House of Commons...
...didn't used to compete," Harper reminisces. "We even traded molds. Nowadays the competition won't even tell you where they buy theirs. I think it's time to get out of this business." But then he drags Ray outside to inspect a new figure, a massive concrete hound balanced on its hind legs. The front paws could rest on the shoulders of a man 6 ft. tall. Harper did not make the dog: he bought it from another dealer. "I'm trying out the statue first before I order the mold," he explains, while Ray nods sagely...
What is lost when heroes vanish? Henry David Thoreau (a man who would have been at home in 1968) wrote an enigmatic throwaway line in Walden: "I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle dove, and am still on their $ trail." The words, vaguely allegorical and haunting, have something in common with Paul Simon's "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" One has only to inspect the field of presidential candidates in 1988 to feel a sense of some hero loss in the drama of American life...