Word: pitchs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare alliance in France. He scorned le grand Charles for his autocratic ways, called for more attention to domestic needs, less disruptive isolationism in French foreign policy. About the only original measure he proposed was the repeal of a 1920 law forbidding the use of contraceptives by women-a pitch designed to cut into De Gaulle's massive popularity with French females. Wherever he went, Mitterrand's crowds were larger than expected, and he tailored his approach to his audience. Small townsmen he lectured in the style of a petit bourgeois professor. Grease-smeared workers in a Renault...
...Spine. Buffy's protest songs are strictly personal. She is not interested in Viet Nam or the Bomb, but in Uncle Sam's treatment of the Indian. But protest is not her only pitch, and she has other things on her mind that any non-Indian can share. What fires her songs with feeling is the peculiarly husky timbre and flexibility of her voice. She can purr, she can belt, she can shade her voice with an eerie tremble that crawls up the listener's spine. Unlike the pure, mountain-spring soprano of Joan Baez...
...removing every other 35 milliseconds of sound from a regular speed tape. Cramer can produce speech at double speed. Removing more tape segments speeds the speech up even more. Yet the speech is still of normal pitch and none of the vital parts of words are obliterated...
...Quixote-Cervantes, Richard Kiley is at least as good as Richard Burton in Camelot, and his singing voice is far better. He handles himself with grace and gallantry despite some crippling vulgarities in the Dale Wasserman script. Considering the pitch of her voice and the plunge of her neckline, Joan Diener is less an auditory than a visual treat. Irving Jacobson's Yiddish-accent Sancho Panza presents another problem...
Neanderthal Roars. Some oldsters come because "I saw one episode when I was eleven and wanted to know how it came out"; the majority are meeting the movie Batman for the first time. In either case, the reaction varies in pitch from light snickers to Neanderthal roars. Audiences giggle at Veteran Overactor J. Carroll Naish's portrait of Dr. Daka, boo the opening episode's racist slurs: "A wise government rounded up the shifty-eyed Japs." But by the time Batman lies trapped in a pit with knife blades converging on him, the audience stops laughing, starts chanting...