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...name of this tenacious corporation, not coincidentally, is Elvis Presley Enterprises. It controls much of the half-billion-dollar global Elvis industry, strictly limiting the world's supply of singing hound-dog dolls, Heartbreak Hotel matchboxes, leather-jacketed teddy bears and pink Cadillac key chains--not to mention the Graceland mansion in Memphis, headwaters of all things Elvis. As that city licks its lips in anticipation of the 75,000 free-spending fans who are expected for the 20th anniversary of the King's death on Aug. 16, Elvis Presley Enterprises reigns supreme as the guardian, keeper and main arbiter...
...reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). Listening to his notorious rendition of Hound Dog on Milton Berle's TV show, we can hear gasps and giggles from the audience and feel the career-threatening danger of his burlesque moves, almost see his hip-level guitar wagging insolently like the first electric phallus...
...hunters are interested not in cheap thrills, as alleged, but rather in the challenge of training hounds and the excitement of a fair chase with the odds in favor of a large and powerful carnivore. As in sport fishing, success in game hunting is measured in the catching of the quarry, not in its killing. Although the animal is often dispatched for human consumption, catch-and-release hunting is a common practice and a central part of the trail-hound ethic, unmatched by any other hunting sport. Our centuries-old American trail-hound tradition sets the standard for hunting ethics...
...responsibly help to combat the idea that you must be drunk to have fun, as well as demonstrate the healthy consumption of alcohol. In doing so, they inject some much-needed maturity into the community. Administrators who really cared about the role of alcohol on campus would respect, not hound, responsible drinkers--whatever their...
Sparked by such defensive play, the Crimson would not relinquish its lead. The tandem of Silva, Kohler and McLaughlin continued to hound the Eagles...