Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the emotional pitch of his anti-Microsoft sentiment, some students said they found Ellison's presentation quite reasonable...
...Common Era's fast-approaching 2000th birthday, the Two-Thousand-Year Old Man must marvel at how little we have changed. With only three or four years to go (depending on whom you ask) until the dawn of the next millennium, the commotion is already reaching a fever-pitch...
...baldly called the "Compulsive Gamblers Special" and promised to deliver 200,000 names of people with "unquenchable appetites for all forms of gambling." Another list features "some 250,000 hard-core gamblers." Yet another purveys the names of 80,000 people who responded to a vacation-sweepstakes-telemarketing pitch. Such lists allow the gaming companies to tailor their direct pitches to individuals and, by cross-indexing with their own information, spot whether a customer is "underbetting," based on his income and net worth...
...paint, enters from the wings, pushing a large broom before him across the dusty floor. Evidently intrigued by the noises made by the rhythmic swish of the broom's bristles against the floor, he begins to experiment with its tempo and pressure, resulting in swishes and taps of varying pitch and loudness...
...example, in one of the least flashy but most striking numbers of the show, tuned lengths of rubber tubing appear in the performers' hands. To throw pitch into the mix, each time a dancer lands from one of his prodigious leaps, the ungainly lengths of rubber tubing strikes a haunting note against the stage floor--the dance as a whole creates a melody. The effect is startlingly beautiful--it's a little watching Tom Hanks dancing on the giant floor piano in Big, except infinitely less chessy and more thrilling...