Word: pitching
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Perhaps we are to assume that Collard believes Jean's quotation at the beginning of the film, "Only violence can put an end to man's ways," because we get to see plenty of violence-domestic, sexual and racial. The film attempts to achieve a fervent pitch of turbulent emotion, but is incapable to sustaining it. The goal here seems to be to achieve the numbing qualities of a "Reservoir Dogs" but ends without delving deeply enough below the emotional skin to make the audience empathize with any of the characters...
...take the confidence a typicalundergraduate has, and you pitch it up even moreto a truly high level of self-confidence, that wasMark," Alter says. "But it was leavened with asense of humor and the ability to not take himselftoo seriously...
...success was television. With three national networks at his disposal, the fledgling candidate was able to meticulously craft an image of himself as a savior of a country mired in economic stagnation and convulsed by scandal. Gaps in campaign broadcasting laws allowed him to beam his televised pitch directly into the living rooms of up to 45% of the country's TV viewers, blitzing voters with his vaguely worded commitment to family, business, freedom, profits and competition up to 18 times each day. Promising a Reaganesque agenda of reduced government spending combined with lower income taxes, Berlusconi vowed to revive...
What was the problem? Earlier this year, the Administration's internal polls showed that the health-care sales pitch wasn't working. What the President had been saying since September about his reform plan had done as much to confuse the public as inform it. And confusion had only helped his opponents. Thus, largely absent in the new White House lexicon will be references to "universal coverage," "insurance-purchasing alliances" and "employer mandates." In their place, Clinton is using the phrases "guaranteed private insurance," "real insurance reform" and "health benefits guaranteed at work." The reason: the new phrases were test...
Slick Willy put in a tough day on Monday. He was in Cleveland to throw out the first pitch, watched the first six innings and then flew off to Charlotte to watch his Hogs win the NCAA basketball crown...