Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admitted to counseling?' " recalls Susan Longley of Liberty, Maine, who had been lukewarm to Gore before his speech. "And since then I've developed a magnetic pull to Gore, because he speaks the language of people who tend their hearts." Family counseling is not part of Gore's campaign pitch, but like many of his generation, he is clearly fascinated by the family as an institution. He talks enthusiastically about Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller, whose 1981 classic Prisoners of Childhood, renamed The Drama of the Gifted Child, argues that children deprived of unconditional love from their parents grow up with...
...massive campaign to privatize state industries on Oct. 1, Boris Yeltsin's government began issuing vouchers worth 10,000 rubles (U.S.$33) to every man, woman and child in Russia to be used toward buying shares in newly privatized enterprises. It could hardly give them away. Despite the pitch, the offer was met with widespread confusion and apathy. One poll revealed that fully half of Moscow residents did not know what to do with the vouchers once they got them...
...Strindberg's Ghost Sonata: "Silence hides nothing. Words conceal." Two of the salesmen, Moss (Ed Harris) and Aaronow (Alan Arkin), sit in a bar, grousing about the real estate company. It is as much a part of their job as sounding stardusted with sweet reason while on a pitch. Moss sketches an idea for a theft of the office, and later tells Aaronow he is implicated in the scheme. Aaronow asks, "And why is that?" Moss replies, "Because you listened...
Centrella certainly sounds casual about the case, possibly because this kind of pitch dark mystery is nothing new to him. He worked on the still-unsolved Boston Strangler Case and gets calls just about every day from police officers all over the country responding to his a.p.b...
...best coffee in the Square," Sorrento says. "Christy's coffee tastes like it's from the bottom of the urn every time you go in there. They don't put enough cream in it," he says. "It always tastes like tar, or pitch...