Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critics, dealers and museum folk peering into the demitasse of his talent and declaring it an oracular well whose contents address issues, as the phrase goes, of class, race, money, sex, obscenity, beauty, power and desire. Art is short, bibliography long. Clearly, we are in Madonnaland, where every publicity hound -- oops, semiotician of mass culture -- must have his day in the museum...
...BILL CLINTON WANTS HIS TOP OFFICIALS TO BE, IN Dwight Eisenhower's famous words, "clean as a hound's tooth," he'd better start handing out the toothpaste...
...reformer like Carey turned into an apparent reactionary? Some experts speculate that Carey believes his militant posture is safe now because the Clinton Administration's Justice Department will not hound the Teamsters the way Republican Administrations did. Yet Carey's behavior, past and present, indicates that government supervision is still necessary. For example, the Teamsters leader doubts he "ever would have testified" on behalf of a reputed Lucchese family mobster named John Conti. But court records show that Carey spoke highly of Conti in a criminal case...
...bunch of these guys probably will have passed through here at some point, we're in the uncomfortable position of seeming either egotistical, presumptuous or both when we try to predict cabinet members. Look around you--that guy on his way to a final punch dinner...the library hound bending over her notes in the caverns of Widener...one of them will soon be your Secretary of State...
...assassinate him 20 years ago. A single guard dog ostensibly scared the gunmen off his property. Perot never reported the incident to authorities, though he has frequently complained about minor incursions on his heavily guarded estate. He still refuses to identify the single witness who, he maintains, unleashed the hound. The chief of his private security force at the time says the incident never occurred...