Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...patronizing sales, pitch we were told the clothes being exhibited were objects d'art that sell for as much as $400 at stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Harrods. Those tempted to buy one of Bina's creations after the show would get a 30 percent discount--just tonight and only for us. The staged exotica, the announcer repeatedly exclaimed, were made in India and handcrafted by refugee artisans from Afghanistan and Iran--I suppose the skills of indigenous Indian craftsman are not quaint or exotic enough to make it to an international fashion show these days...
Giardi, moreover, has an innate ability to see the field around him--and, no one improvised pitch to Colby Maher, even the field behind...
...much of the farmland is eroded. Famine still threatens millions of people. Foreign aid has amounted to a mere trickle as potential Western donors wait to see if Ethiopia's much vaunted turn toward democracy is a genuine renunciation of years of Marxism or just a good sales pitch. The government careens from one crisis to the next -- banditry in the east, smuggling in the west, demobilization of Mengistu's army -- with no road map to guide it. Where most of black Africa has opted to quell tribal rivalry by imposing strict one-party rule, Meles has embarked...
Pete Dexter's eerie knack for placing himself inside the skin of even the minor players in his novels may be something like perfect pitch for a musician. It is a useful trick, done with no apparent effort -- in Dexter's case with no literary showiness whatsoever -- but by itself it does not make an artist. What deepens and darkens his writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths...
Suddenly the audience slips into the world of gibberish in which Joycean characters--and O'Neill it seems--thrive, a world of swiftly tilting pitch and agrammatical word structures too bizarre to be termed sentences. It is a testament to O'Neill's virtuosity that the audience watches him make unintelligible sounds yet is still intuitively mesmerized...