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Stewardesses are never very soothing anyway. Who are they trying to kid with that little spiel on takeoff about safety exits and all that crap? "In the unlikely event that we have to ditch the aircraft over water, your seat cushion will act as a floatation device." First off, if it's so damn unlikely that we're going to crash, why bother telling us about it? And a floatation device? Great, you're crashing into the water at 600 miles per hour--all you need is a surfboard...
Motor vehicles heading down Mem. Drive were funneled into a 300 ft. single line surrounded on either side by flares and squad cars. At the front of the line, police had set up bright searchlights to give their spiel to and look at the motorists...
Television has developed an elaborate jargon that has possibilities as slang. Voiceover, segue, intro and out of sync have been part of the more general language for a long time. Now there is the out-tro, the stand-up spiel at the end of a news reporter's segment. A vividly cynical new item of TV news jargon is bang-bang, meaning the kind of film coverage that TV reporters must have in order to get their reports from El Salvador or the Middle East onto the evening news...
...spiel worked up: "It's the decade of the dull. Mountains are dull, birds are dull, flowers are dull, they don't hang around in fern bars trying to impress people." The producers of To Tell the Truth flew Glanting to Manhattan, where, he says, it felt a little odd to meet "some guy from a beer-tasting club who was going through the same kind of media ride...
...granted that "movements" are more a dealer's spiel than a real feature of current art, there are still affinities among artists. What are the main ones here? To begin with, realist painting-but with a twist. The plain declarative style of tonal realism, whose American master is Philip Pearlstein, is hardly in evidence, although there are some exquisitely rendered pastel studies of gray, tumblng Midwestern skies by William Beckman at the Hirshhorn, and the Whitney has some beautifully observed images by William Bailey (still life) and Rackstraw Downes (panoramic landscape). The best figurative work at the Guggenheim...