Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desperate, into one of the mind's old, too familiar snow pits. In the middle of his fifth decade, he attends more funerals than weddings. Great swings of feelings come frequently, irrespective of the seasons. The outer world weeps with the sufferers of AIDS, wars, the mumbling dispossessed who pitch their crazy tents in doorways. The inner world weeps with loss of family, friends, colleagues; loss of dreams, of chance. But see: the Captain cannot stay down for long. He hits the bottom like a trampoline. Boing...
...eighth decade she has learned to accept life in its small and most cherishable doses: the devotion of her daughter; a few close friends; the animals she hovers over because she realized long ago that she was one of them. Around her country cottage, clouds like barrels rolled in pitch inflate the sky, while at his troubled and uncomfortable distance Captain Midlife stammers consolations wholly unnecessary for such a woman. He beats about preparing for her death. She calmly prepares for Christmas and pokes the fire...
...America's economic weakness. One New York savings bank, Dollar Dry Dock, was playing on those emotions in a recent full-page newspaper ad: IF YOU WANT TO HELP YOURSELF AND CONTRIBUTE TO BUILDING AMERICA'S ECONOMIC STRENGTH, CONSIDER 'SOCKING AWAY' A LITTLE MORE OF YOUR INCOME. A shrewd pitch: saving is not only savvy, but patriotic to boot...
...show I'm trying to raise the pitch of my voice," Lodge says. "So Bonnie's been trying to help me get rid of my nasality in class. You work on it during the day and you use it at night." And movement coach Annie Loui says, "The students take things they're learning in class and use it in the Cabaret...
...pitch may be skewed, but the viewer gets the message: something new and strange is happening to the way cars are steered. Like so many technological advances these days, this one was made in Japan. Honda and Mazda began showing 1988 models with four-wheel steering in U.S. showrooms in September, and san and Mitsubishi are expected to follow quickly. Detroit's carmakers say they are still studying what is turning out to be the most talked about automotive innovation of the year...