Word: hounding
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...vicious hound of the Baskervilles that burst upon Sherlock Holmes out of the fog has returned to haunt the streets of America. The creature last week attacked a 71-year-old woman in Stone Mountain, Ga., dragging her across her driveway and savaging her so badly that she required 100 stitches. It snapped and tore at an unemployed man as he watched the July 4 fireworks in Rochester; last week he died from his multiple injuries, including a 15-in. wound from calf to thigh. And in Atlanta, Houston and Ramsay, Mich., it has seized small children like rag dolls...
...focus on important matters, say, on whether the presidential finding authorizing the Israeli second arms shipment was in compliance with the Hughes-Ryan amendment. Such matters, often referred to as the "facts," are overlooked while the nation takes in Ollie's hair, his uniform, his smile, his glint, his hound-dog eyes and his patriotic speeches. Millions swoon. The sophisticates despair...
DEATH CAME to me through the good offices of Tom Stoppard and the Dunster House Drama Society, which recently produced The Real Inspector Hound. A friend from the cast telephoned me one evening, soon before opening night. "We need a body for Hound," he said. Like the hotdog I am, I accepted the role with relish. After all, it sounded easy and fun--just lie on stage for an hour, then go to the cast party. While you only live once, I reasoned, here was an opportunity to die twice. Test driving the afterlife is a privilege granted...
...Fire in the Dunster House dining hall says, "It isn't so bad. You have to move all the tables out and then put them back in, but other than that it's O.K." But Liza DiPrima '89, who this spring directed two Tom Stoppard farces, The Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte, in the same space contends, "It's the worst...
...could probably withstand even the most brutal student production. But simple problems mar the production, particularly failed attempts at British accents and a failure to alter annoying British colloquialisms; phrases as "wind screen" instead of "windshield," "shaving foam" instead of "shaving cream" distract the audience for no purpose. Inspector Hound, moreover, at longer than an hour, begins to grate. DiPrima would have been wiser to slice out a third of the dialogue, and concentrate on the sparkling delivery of the remainder...