Word: hounding
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...dividends, is getting the silent treatment from what is typically a core source of support for this White House: the business world. The last time the idea was raised, during Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax-reform effort, big corporations actively fought it because they didn't want shareholders to hound them for dividends when they would rather invest the money elsewhere. This time most companies have kept quiet--in part, congressional sources say, because they fear getting on the wrong side of a White House that is known to have a long memory. "The White House is pressuring them," says...
...It’s a hard job to hound him,” Dunphy said of Harvey. “I think he’s a terrific player, very good scorer and a constant mover out there. Those are hard guys to defend. But I think Schiff is a pretty good athlete and the size seemingly helps us as well...
...Watching the Berle-show "Hound Dog," we can feel the career-threatening danger of his burlesque moves, see his hip-level guitar wagging insolently like the first electric phallus. No wonder the onlookers gasped and giggled. They knew they were present for a cultural sea change; and their animosity was a necessary impediment for the invader to overcome. Exactly the same abrasion is evident in the 1951 film of "A Streetcar Named Desire," in the moment when Vivien Leigh's fluttery Blanche duBois is first confronted with Brando's brutish Stanley Kowalski. It is the instant, epochal collision...
...Adults thought kids picked up an infection too. The same cultural paranoia that had parents burning horror comic books in 1954 had them calling for a TV ban on Elvis the Pelvis, and Presley was obliged to tone down his moves when, on "The Steve Allen Show," he sang "Hound Dog" in a tuxedo to an actual hound dog (in a tuxedo). In a revealing press comment in Charleston, S.C., the week before the Allen show, Elvis put his music and his performance style into cultural contest: "The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like...
...dyed jet-black to look better on camera, he wishes a speedy recovery to Sullivan, recently injured in a car accident. He sings ballads, mostly, and behaves himself from the waist down, mostly. For a second he shouts, "You ain't nothin'..." as if to launch into the heretical "Hound Dog," but that's just a goof; he stops and quickly grins. At the end of his final appearance, Elvis offers a prayer for the viewers: "May God bless ya, as He's blessed...