Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performances are in perfect high pitch. Cher and her screen sisters all catch the edge of flinty, frantic resilience; these three could bewitch any prospective devil. There are nifty turns from Veronica Cartwright (as the local prude) and Helen Lloyd Breed (as a sprightly oldster). Then there's Nicholson. Well! He might have been rehearsing for this role ever since The Shining. If he was over the top there, he is stratospheric here. He is a beast on two legs, grunting, slavering, pawing anyone, and never mind the scratches. Does Jack stink like Daryl? No, he is gloriously rank. Sulfuric...
...know how miserable it was," Jack Brummond, chairman of the board of directors, was explaining the other day. Outside, the wind came off the prairie hard enough to knock you flat, and in the park at the foot of Main Street the Dr Pepper scoreboard by the girls' slow-pitch softball diamond was threatening to leave the state. "This is the social crux of our community. If we don't have this, we live in total segregation. The only other place we have to see people is church...
...porno star better known as "Cicciolina," rolls down the top of her tight hot-pink dress and buttresses her rhetoric with a fulsome display of physical eloquence. While campaigning, the half-clad Cicciolina embraces many of her admirers. Her slogan: "Let's have pleasure. Let's spread happiness." Her pitch against nuclear energy: "I warm myself with the sun and with love...
...Shapiro, who taught him jazz composition, "He's extremely gifted. One of his gifts is that he feels a whole lot about music, and that feeling comes through." According to Shapiro, Sample can hear a piece and once or twice and pick it up. He seems to have perfect pitch, she says, but she credits him more for trying to improve his technique, which she says is usually very difficult for a natural musician. "He could always do it," Shapiro says, "but now he knows what he's doing, so he can do it even better." Sample agrees that Shapiro...
With his bronzed good looks, silky sales pitch and dangerous smile, Leather Importer Iran (yes, that's his name) Michael Kesselman, 41, found it easy to dazzle women and men alike into doing his bidding. They put him up, made his airplane reservations, introduced him to buyers for chic West Coast boutiques and took him to celebrity-studded parties. Some of Kesselman's admirers became so enthralled, federal investigators found, that they even peddled drugs...