Word: pitches
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...comes with a steamy sales pitch. Imagine a 5-in. CD that holds 20 times more data than a CD-ROM and offers the richest sound you've ever heard and the lushest images you've ever seen. Throw in digital TV, the standards for which were approved by the feds last month, and the result just might be the culmination of the consumer electronics industry's long search for a grand unified theory of home entertainment: one hardy, gleaming box that plays music better than your stereo, video better than your vcr, and software better than your...
...renderings of a black preacher's rolling sermon or the colorful chit-chat among the locals in a general store, Mosley displays a pitch-perfect gift for capturing the cadences of black speech that rivals the dialogue in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Mosley, the son of a black maintenance supervisor and a white Jewish mother, has, like Ellison, a nuanced appreciation for black-white relationships that goes beyond the stereotypes that mar much recent fiction by black authors. Gone Fishin', of course, is not in Invisible Man's league; few novels are. But it firmly establishes Mosley...
...African Americans." As in Mosley's other novels, the plot is mostly incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. "In his renderings of a black preacher?s rolling sermon or the colorful chit-chat among the locals in a general store, Mosley displays a pitch-perfect gift for capturing the cadences of black speech that rivals the dialogue in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man,'" White notes. "'Gone Fishin',' of course, is not in 'Invisible Man's' league; few novels are. But it firmly establishes Mosley as a writer whose work transcends the thriller category and qualifies...
When a rugby player is tackled, she simply lays the ball down and the action continues. The two teams collide over the ball, and try to pitch it back to their teammates, while the tackled player tries to crawl out of the middle...
During this discussion, which increased in pitch until the fervent isolationists were advocating recalling Madeleine Albright, the German Fulbright scholar sat watching us, his eyes getting wider and wider...