Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bizarre often drives the play: the audience stays poised to see what new strangeness is in store, because anything can happen. In The Chairs, this finds expression in an oceanic ebb and flow of energy. The actors have to set up chairs at a loud and feverish pitch one instant, and subside into deathly silence and inactivity the next. The varying dynamics of the play as it is written are brilliant, but the demands imposed upon the actors are rigorous: they have to carry hundreds of invisible people--not to mention the people in the audience--along this roller coaster...
Like a high-pressure salesman who has his prospect on the defensive, President Nixon last week kept up the pitch for Government frugality that he sounded so strongly in his budget message. In his annual economic report to Congress, Nixon italicized one sentence: Only by holding the line on federal spending will we be able to reduce the inflation rate further in 1973. If that can be achieved, he said, 1973 can be, not just "a very good year" like 1972, but "a great year" in which the U.S. will "enter into a sustained period of strong growth, full employment...
After the case reached the court level, Geritol's manufacturer, a subsidiary of Nabisco, eventually changed its advertising to a pitch aimed primarily at middle-aged women. Though the FTC has received some complaints about the more recent ads as well, it so far has not acted against them. Whether or not the newer messages have offended the Government, however, they have drawn spirited criticism from women. In one commercial a husband, after reciting his attractive spouse's achievements, intones: "My wife. I think I'll keep her." The Williams Co. might be well advised to note...
...Series a young Giant player hit a grand slam off a Yankee pitcher. Who hit the home run, who was the pitcher and what kind of pitch...
...line drive that ended Herb Score's pitching career and what team did score pitch...