Word: hounding
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...while Don Zimmer leaned back in his chair in the manager's office, keeping cool and vaguely sinister beneath that hungry hound-dog face, George Scott was attracting the attention. And Fred Lynn, Two guys the Boston media had written off their list of interesting personalities last season...
What freshman girl do you know who--I misses Eugene, her family's "fat, stupid" basset hound more than anything else from home...
Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, of the Richmond News Leader, understood right off, and when he drew the White House he sometimes included a hound dog, a beat-up pickup, a gas pump and Billy-just to make the Carters feel at home. Humorist Art Buchwald eased the presidential family into national life by telling his audiences that to understand them one should consider the Carter Administration as just another Hollywood television serial where an average former submarine officer and peanut farmer becomes President. He has a mother who runs off to India at age 68, a daughter who lives...
...uncanny gift for crossing musical bloodlines. Both loved black rhythm-and-blues music, and could write it with such glancing wit and thorough funk that their songs sounded fresh off the streets. It is worth keeping in mind that at the time of the first major Leiber-Stoller hit, Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream pop and down-home rhythm and blues was performed by Elvis Presley, who took R&B, fused it with a little country raunch and came...
Presley, the first certifiable rock superstar, built his legend with a fair assist from Leiber and Stoller, who provided him with not only Hound Dog but such other cornerstones as Jailhouse Rock, King Creole, Loving You and Treat Me Nice. And that wasn't even their best...