Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cultural impresario began early, grounded in two attributes rarely found together in the same person: good taste and money. The latter came from his indulgent father, a partner in a Boston department store, and it enabled Kirstein, during his freshman year at Harvard in 1926, to found Hound & Horn, an influential literary quarterly that ran seven years, published original work by the likes of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and lost approximately $8,000 an issue. Somewhat less expensively, Kirstein also began the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, an organization that provided much of the impetus for the establishment...
...found role as fashion hound, FM sniffed out one of Harvard's major fashion catastrophes and brought it faithfully to its readers' attention. A certain student whom FM chose to keep anonymous for fear of ruining his life (hint: Lampoon) was photographed wearing the outfit you see on this very page. Shield your eyes, fashion virgins, for the sight of this fashion Medusa may turn your jeans to polyester...
...book-publishing experience. Yet she showed a nose for hot celebrities, bringing in books by Kathie Lee Gifford, Hollywood executive Dawn Steel and even (her next project) MTV superstars Beavis and Butt-head. To admirers, Regan is a passionate editor with keen commercial instincts; to detractors, an abrasive publicity hound; to readers of gossip columns, the most entertaining book editor in New York City. Three years ago she spent five hours in jail after an argument with a police officer who, she says, taunted her cab driver (the charges were dropped). Last year she picked a fight with Madonna over...
...store, which has hosted well-known poetsfrom Robert Lowell to Robert Bly, is also famedfor a somewhat mangy canine former resident,Pumpkin the dog. Pumpkin, a beagle-hound mix, wasonce featured in the Harvard Yearbook but is nowdeceased...
Behind the bink is Ely (pronounced E-lee) Callaway, 74, a Georgia-born supersalesman with L.B.J.-style hound-dog ears and aggressive charm. Already wealthy and successful at 54, he left the presidency of Burlington Industries to buy a 150-acre vineyard in Temecula, California. Rather than sit around and watch his grapes grow, Callaway developed top-grade wines and promoted them by traveling and offering low-cost oenophile seminars to hotel and restaurant employees. By 1982 Callaway was selling 73,000 cases annually...