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...Because the other problem with "Temptation" is that for all its attempts at balance, its premise - the lure of instant sex amid acres of comely anonymous flesh - is, at risk of overgeneralizing, pretty much a male fantasy. (I'd love to know how many women were present at the pitch meeting.) And one of the few entertaining moments came when the male halves of the couples failed to get that. Allowed to banish whichever of the Mr. Sluts seemed to be the biggest threat, they decided to purge a buff guy "who looks like Sisqo...
...Griffey Jr. hit by pitch, refuses to charge the pitcher: "I'd rather try to decapitate...
...This palm-size portable lie detector ($50 at goodmorningshop.com is supposed to be able to sense tremors and other signs of stress in a prevaricator's voice. The Handy Truster comes in several colors, and its South Korean manufacturer, 911 Computer, insists that it's just for fun. (The pitch: "Enjoy the truth game with your colleagues!") It also works via cell phone for remote or uncooperative subjects. Don't hang up the lasso just yet, though. Handy Truster promises to catch only 8 lies...
...Bush obviously figures the best immunization against a spring contraction is to give plenty of reminders that it'll be a problem he inherited from Clinton. And a little gloom and doom is the best sales pitch in years for big across-the-board tax cuts, which haven't been popular since Ross Perot made fiscal responsibility cool again. So Bush has little reason for public optimism...
...says so right here. We "bellow," says the Los Angeles Times. And "howl." We reach "fever pitch." Our "rage sharpens" our rhetoric, says the Washington Post. We "unleash our wrath," says the Baltimore Sun. I always trust the newspapers, of course, but I've searched myself for signs of rage, and I've come up empty. The same is true for my conservative pals (not one of whom, I'm happy to say, could be counted among the G.O.P. battalion of Brooks Brothers goons who actually did bellow and howl at Miami-Dade officials last month). Like most people, conservatives...