Word: pitching
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Employers, of course, have their own arsenal of weapons for turning back organizing attempts. Companies can often keep unions at bay simply by firing employees who seem sympathetic to an organizer's pitch. Forklift driver Jerome Childs filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last month after Preferred Consolidated, a Chicago-area warehouse operator, laid him off. The firm says the dismissal was for gashing the wrapping on a palette of Styrofoam boxes that Childs had been told to unload quickly. Childs says it was for favoring representation by Unite, a recently formed combination of clothing-workers' unions...
...alone one that boasts Sherwood Schwartz, the brain behind both Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, as an auteur. But here goes anyway. The Larry Sanders Show, with its laugh-trackless verisimilitude, is the best comedy on TV, probably the closest a sitcom will ever come to perfect pitch (yes, it's on HBO--so much for ground rules). The best drama: Party of Five, a thirtysomething for teenagers and young adults--with all the pluses (honest, abnormally well-crafted writing) and minuses (too much acoustic guitar in the soundtrack) that the thirtysomething comparison implies. And for pure cheese...
Unfortunately, sports carry risks with them, too. A hockey player does risk sustaining such a neck injury, not to mention broken bones, incisions from skate blades, etc. In baseball, one high inside pitch could end a person's life...
...closing arguments, Cochran's most effective pitch played off the Darden glove gambit, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." The rhythm might be that of a black Baptist preacher, but the inspiration came from Uelmen. "I first suggested [the phrase] after the glove experiment," he recalls. "But what I was really proposing was that it would provide a good theme for the whole argument, because so much of the other circumstantial evidence didn't fit into the prosecution's scenario." The slogan--and the idea behind it--proved pivotal. "I was really heartened by what I've heard...
...Pulitzer Prize for referencing goes to Bret Easton Ellis, whose famously lazy prose has made him the Danny Bonaduce of letters. In the hands of British writer Nick Hornby, though, the affectation is used to excellent effect. Hornby, 38, is worshipped in Britain for his 1992 book, Fever Pitch, a humorous memoir about his life as a soccer fan. In this first novel, High Fidelity (Riverhead Books; $21.95; 323 pages), he demonstrates his enviable talent for lucid, laconic writing...