Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby. Actually, this book should be read by anyone with a pulse, not just soccer fans. Hornby chronicles the relationship between sport and life through the lens of his own obsessive relationship with Arsenal Football Club; off-beat, thoughtful and often gutbustingly funny, it makes for an easy, quick read that might change the way you look at sport...
...style as a bit naive, but in some ways it represents how the second Clinton Administration is rearranging its priorities. "He gets it," says Vice President Al Gore, a longtime friend, who recruited Raines for the job. "In a relatively short time as OMB director, he has acquired perfect pitch." It comes in part from his training as an investment banker, which he shares with the two other prominent members of Clinton's negotiating team, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles. Theirs is a culture in which winning is cutting the deal...
Lucas' craftsmanship shines with particular brilliance in the final half hour of the film. Besides the stunning special effects that the director calls upon to underscore the urgency of this concluding sequence, Lucas masterfully builds up the suspense to a shattering pitch as one rebel craft after another falls prey to the marauding pilots of the imperial forces. The toll of casualties among the rebels keeps adding up until one lone plane remains; naturally, it is manned by Luke Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death...
...movie. For those "Star Wars" purists, such changes hardly corrupt the original when one considers that Lucas wanted these effects in the first place. My only gripe with the $10 million overhaul is with the new THX digitized sound, which raises every sound to the same fevered pitch, from the lowest whisper to the loudest blast...
...Kohler's claim to that spot, the road from Ohiri Field to a potential slot on the pitch at the Meadowlands has been a long one, but his credentials suggest that he is ready to make the transition. Kohler's career stats are solid, with 28 goals and 26 assists since he arrived from his high school club team F.C. Delco, but his final year was a breakout season: nine goals (including a team-leading five-game-winners), ten assists and a stately procession to the second round of the NCAA Tournament...