Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OLIVIER PRESERVES the classical rhythm, the curling-up pitch at the end of a line and the elongation of select syllables until they detonate, and he fuses all this with bravura good-humor. Compare this portrait to his massive, thick-featured, iron-rimmed Nazi dentist in the Marathon Man and you've good example of why people label this great man the most versatile actor who's ever lived. Olivier is on-screen more than anyone else in the The Boys from Brazil, and he hasn't had a movie role this large since Sleuth...
...Riverside. "Did you watch the game?" he asked as he shook hands. "The Dodgers won." Brown, in fact, had not watched the game, but he has mastered the knack of small talk. While his mostly black audience sipped cocktails and soft drinks and ate guacamole, Brown made his familiar pitch: "Campaigns are three things?taxes, jobs and crime. Taxes are going down, jobs are going up, and we have the most aggressive campaign against crime that we've had in a quarter-century...
...Macs are as predictable as their final reconciliation. Besides, it strains credibility that this couple ever split up in the first place. How could any one married to Bisset even think of car rying on with another woman? It's easier to imagine Morley making a TV pitch for the Scarsdale diet...
...There's nothing wrong with my arm right now," Lee said after the last game of the season, in the midst of a subdued celebration. "He just hates my guts and he won't let me pitch. If I bail him out like I bailed him out last year then he won't be able to trade me, and he'll look like an idiot besides...
...Dodgers got off to a good start when second baseman Davey Lopes blooped a single into right field on the third pitch of the game. With one out, Reggie Smith punched a long single to right, scoring the fleet-footed Lopes, who had already stolen second...