Word: pitching
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...highly idiosynchratic dialogue. Punctuated by puns and wordplay, it succeeds in pulling laffs as often as it fails. Bobby (Sean Williford) and Rob (Joel Rainey) conduct a whirlwind, rapid-fire dialogue that frequently disintegrates into slurs and incoherence, a problem that rests as much with the actors' nervous pitch as with the text itself...
...composed scores for the famed Pilobolus Dance Theater and the repertory theater at Yale, where she earned a master's in sax in 1977. She uses a synthesizer, controlled by foot pedals, to amplify her ethereal solos into swirls of sound that evoke the Doppler effect, the drop in pitch that occurs when a train rushes by with its horn blaring. Bloom has six times been cited in Down Beat's annual critics' poll as a talent deserving wider recognition. As to why she first took up the notoriously cranky instrument, she has a winning answer: "It looked so shiny...
Would-be career women face equally great obstacles at home, where men feel no obligation to pitch in. A 1986 government survey of dual-career couples found that men devote only eight minutes of a workday to household chores and child rearing, compared with 3 1/2 hours for their wives. Younger men increasingly take out the garbage and play with their children on weekends but still leave most household affairs to their wives. A 33-year-old banker typically relies on his wife to lay out his clothes each morning. But, he adds, "I select the necktie...
...criticism has not reached the fever pitch of the 1970s, when Big Oil's "obscene" profits inspired a wave of legislative controls. The oil companies contend that they have heeded President Bush's admonition to show restraint at the gas pump. In fact, while oil prices at the end of last week stood at about $33 per bbl., or 65% higher than they were just before Iraq invaded Kuwait, average U.S. gasoline prices were only 31% higher, or $1.38 per gal. for unleaded regular. Said Holly Hutchins, a spokesman for Shell Oil: "We gave up a considerable amount...
While Saturn's advertising will eventually tout the car's qualities, the early pitch is clearly to patriotism and small-town sentiment. That may be a + canny marketing move. "The Saturn is the beginning of something we have been warning our Japanese friends about," wrote Jean Lindamood, executive editor of Automobile magazine. "Americans are harboring strong anti-Japanese sentiment just below the surface, and when Detroit can make a car that is the equivalent of a Japanese car, Americans will buy it. I believe it will sell like crazy. I also believe that if Saturn has quality problems, Saturn...