Word: spiel
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...focus on either what you did wrong or what he did wrong, you will be left with frustration. If he pulled the whole, “Let’s be friends. It’s not you… it’s me,” spiel, he was most likely not being completely honest...
...true that the CIA has a long and clear record of attempting assassinations, overthrowing democratically elected leaders, supporting brutal dictatorships, toturing presumed enemies, and illegally spying on American citizens, I’m certain their representatives at the Science Center had prepared a rosy, well-honed spiel that glossed over all of this...
...able to match HBO quality-wise, but it's catching up in the derogatory Italian-American-stereotype business!) On the plus side, the script has the kind of nicely set-up jokes you'd expect on "Friends"; in the first scene, Joey gives a long expository spiel about his reasons for moving to L.A. to the cab driver on his ride from the airport (acting auditions, getting close to family). So, the cabbie asks, what are you doing here in Dallas? There's a classic Joey moment of slowly-dawning realization, then: "I did have a layover in Dallas!" Clearly...
...ever told was, among other things, a great story. His dark-haired, dark-eyed, unibrowed Jesus (played by Enrique Irazoqui, a Basque Jew who, like the other performers, was not a professional actor) spits out the parables and prophesies with a brisk ferocity, like a union organizer with a spiel to finish before the end of the lunch break. He is testy with his inquisitors and abrupt with his Apostles. He's a man-God in a hurry to fulfill his mission. Sooner dead, sooner resurrected...
...guest named Darren pores over some printouts, preparing for his first day of work as a long-distance plan telemarketer in Waltham tomorrow. “I’m sitting here cramming,” he says. “I want this spiel to be as genuine and human-sounding as possible...