Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Disneyland, and so the bandleader thought it would be a gasser to see if he had a voice to go with the name. Up stepped Frank W. Sinatra, 18, and when he let go with I've Got You Under My Skin, he had the old nasal pitch and easy delivery. Sinatra's son, by a first marriage dissolved eleven years ago, is a drama student at Arizona State College, but he really wants to be a music man. What did dad think? "My father is not the kind of person who says much about things like this...
Innocent Grandeur. Last week's outdoor epic was Under the Vultures, an old May tale chosen for this year's Karl May Festival. In its ten years, the festival has drawn 800,000 visitors. The cowboy and Indian fans from all over Germany come for the festival, pitch tepees, fire blank pistols, call each other "Callamitty Jane" and, though few Germans can pronounce it, "Billy the Kid." And during the season, Bad Segeberg's best hotel offers "Dakota Weshungle mil Palushka Weshungle" (spiced buffalo meat with brown beans...
Decidedly Different. It all seemed pretty familiar-the homey pitch, the church-folk tone, the appeal to kinship. But as Orval Faubus canvassed Arkansas last week, something was decidedly different. Gone was the fiery segregationist fervor that only five years ago spread his name through the world as the villain of Little Rock. Gone were his sarcastic references to "outsiders," to federal troops, to the Supreme Court, to the monstrous, power-grabbing U.S. Government. No longer did he hold up segregation literature and talk about the evils of integration; he scarcely mentioned integration at all. In fact, hard...
...Meyer, a Russian Jew who migrated to Bayonne, N.J., before completing his rabbinical training, was a man of many miseries. He never succeeded in lifting his family above wretched poverty. Frail and asthmatic, the unhappy Talmud scholar worked occasionally in a factory, making suspender ends, but everybody had to pitch in. Mother Newhouse sold drygoods door to door; Norman, one of Sam's three brothers, .was set to peddling papers at the age of five...
...this leads to events that would be incredibly lurid if they were not enacted at a perfect pitch of passion and despair. Writer-Producer-Director-Photographer Rick Carrier gets a compelling spontaneity that suspends disbelief...