Word: spiel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaigned well: Peddling his wares upstate, he stresses his early opposition to the Big MAC bond agreement, which he says was designed to make sure the city wouldn't get off with easy terms that might have endangered the state's own bonds. In Manhattan and environs, though, the spiel changes dramatically: Look here, Duryea says, if I hadn't agreed to the last-minute compromise the city would have floundered. The fact that he had no real choice--that he could not possibly have blocked the city's recovery and still expect to run for governor three years later...
...stunning exception in this crew is Shields. A child model of astounding beauty, she is also, at least at twelve, a natural actress. It is chilling to watch her come on to Johns, aping the older whores' bedroom spiel in a mock-adult voice; her scenes with men are the movie's best. Though the film does not explicitly show Violet's bedroom activities, Shields is at times a sexual figure. A volatile mixture of both innocence and carnality, she makes the audience feel that anything can happen when she is around...
...WXIA-TV in Atlanta. "No man in the country has had wider experience in the techniques of investigative reporting," joked Carter Countrymen Jody Powell and Ham Jordan in a good-luck telegram from the White House. Or a better sense of his public. In his first l ½-minute spiel, Lance called for a permanent tax cut "for the working people of America," then later reflected on the chances of his minishow going national. "That would be the easiest way," he conceded, "to get back to Washington...
...Seven thousand dollars," was all Lou would say for the first half-hour. Mrs. Lou, a long-suffering woman who had spent her life finding silver linings for all her husband's clouds, went into a spiel about the nicer attributes of modern architecture and how, after all, Carlo was still at Harvard, surrounded by brilliant people living the life of the mind. Besides, she added, pointing out the charming bastion of ruggedly individualistic capitalism occupying the opposite street corner, there's a superette nearby so Carlo won't starve when he's up late studying...
...scenario could be repeated endlessly: elk hunting in Montana, oil prospecting in Alaska, a quail shoot in Mexico, a social-cum-business bash in the Mojave Desert, a sales spiel atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The H-H passenger rides high above smog and speed limits, encounters no parking problems, and gets farther from the madding crowd than a hyperthyroid hermit with climbing irons...