Word: hounding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...parochial insult only highlights Nossiter's cosmopolitan approach. He finds nuance everywhere, including in his interview with Robert Parker, the redoubtable American wine critic who can make or break a vintage in the newsletter he produces from his Maryland home office, with his flatulent bulldog George and his basset hound Hoover in attendance. Parker says it's hardly his fault that his judgments have become the gold standard for wines across the world; he sees himself - with some justice, as Nossiter acknowledges - as a consumer advocate whose call-'em-as-I-see-'em sensibility broke the stranglehold of befuddled aristocrats...
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...look over, and Hound Dog (as he is affectionately called by his fellow Milwaukee’s Best disciples) has just “hit up” the joint. Hound Dog rolls into the party with bravado, spewing shocking witticisms like, “Yo dudes, it’s so hot in here it reminds me of your mom!” and “By the way fellas, in that last joke the ‘hot’ was spelled with two t’s.” He normally rolls with a sidekick...
...Hound Dog and I make eye contact and exchange a sweet up-top high-five to solidify our Social Analysis section-forged friendship. Hound Dog tells me, “Yo, hott party huh? Better than our fucking Social Analysis lecture. Fuck lecture, that shit’s gay.” I ask Hound Dog if said lecture has a boyfriend and he is visibly confused. Hound Dog bombs on down to his natural habitat, the keg. He feeds off the energy from the tap, and imagines the kick-ass deposit-return the hosts...
...William graduated with a math degree at 16, but soon after he lost interest in math and spent much of his life working at clerical jobs and writing esoteric books. Boris Sidis had offered his prodigy to the public as proof that young children can learn prodigiously; reporters would hound William Sidis as a failure for the rest of his life. He came to resent his parents for driving him and died alone...