Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents feared for their children's safety because the time change meant that most had to go to school in the dark. In Philadelphia, an angry mother rose at a neighborhood school-board meeting to shout: "It's dangerous for our kids to go to school through pitch-black streets full of abandoned buildings. Mothers, stop dragging your feet. Open schools later in the day or our children are going to get hurt...
...place is too remote. After 200 letters went out to Yankton, S. Dak., for Basketball Player Chad Nelson, some recruiters traveled there four or five times to make their pitch. Moses Malone's home in Petersburg has become a clearinghouse for college coaches, and Jerry Eckwood played one of his last football games in Brinkley with 50 recruiters cheering...
...fans and carriage doors, snuffboxes, escritoires and ostrich eggs. And when Louis XV put Boucher in control of the state tapestry factories at Beauvais and Gobelin, he brought about the last flourish of grand-scale European weaving. No designer since Boucher has managed to raise tapestry to that pitch of worldly exuberance and erotic charm...
...never able (or, for that matter, inclined) to raise his art to that Mozartian pitch of psychological tension at which Watteau's lovers and courtiers exist. Boucher, unlike Watteau, had no vision of a fragile society whose pleasures, no matter how refined, are menaced by time. Boucher painted pleasure as though it were a perpetual state, coquetry without end, threatened by neither satiety nor boredom. The elements that constitute his afternoon kingdom take on a preternatural luxury as objects; the sky, swarming with clouds of putti and looping swags of fabric, itself acquires the crisp sheen of taffeta...
After that pitch, Graham went into a windup for the real product--and his salesmanship was equally masterful. Each night it was a little different. Two nights were "youth nights," so his special guests were disproportionately sports celebrities and rock singers, and his sermon played with the theme of romantic love...