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...waning days of the 1980s, ads for the Oldsmobile Cutlass touted the car's luxury features and driving pleasure. Today the pitch is much different. An Olds ad urges car buyers to "put your money in a safe place. No matter what the economic forecast, there is one investment you can always feel comfortable with." The mood of the U.S. has changed, and so has advertising. The country is fighting a war abroad and battling a recession at home, and commercial messages are adapting their tone to fit a back-to-basics attitude that is abroad in the land...
Previous generations of pilots had spoken of a "bomber's moon." But that was in an era of what would now be considered low-tech conflict. Today the ideal condition for an air raid is a pitch-black night. Infrared devices and laser- guided bombs enable pilots to see and hit their targets through inky darkness; moonlight would serve only to make their planes more visible to antiaircraft gunners. Jan. 15 was the first of three moonless nights in Iraq and Kuwait. No good; the U.S. considered the deadline for using force to be midnight American Eastern Standard Time...
Twenty years ago my memories of America's social temperature kept me in a feverish, high pitch of militant social protest. I led my vocalizing of that anger by expounding on the African Americans' bleak past as the target of tar burnings, rape, castrations, assasinations and the rest...
...season, he is as enthusiastic as a teenager. When Philip goes to London, Herman burns up the transatlantic phone system keeping his son up to the minute on the play-offs. "Hey," he says, worried about the bill, "I'm giving you this pitch by pitch to London, it's going to cost you a fortune." Roth's grand-slam reply: "But pitch by pitch I was enjoying it enormously, maybe even more than if I had been there. 'Go ahead, Herm. I'm a rich man. Pitch by pitch...
...play maintains a comic pitch even at its most tense and powerful moments. Billy turns his sense of betrayal and anger into a catalyst for self-knowledge as he incessantly jokes about his illness throughout the play. But this comic element underscores the paradox that the play adresses: the "insane" are more sane than the "sane." As Teddy jokes to Irene at one point, "He's insane, you know, which is advantageous...because it's curable, while sanity...