Word: spieling
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...much as $300--to new employees. Veteran staffers who find new prospects for the payroll can also win up to $100. In Missouri's affluent St. Louis County, McDonald's recently offered free movie tickets to passersby in order to fill a hall with youngsters for a hiring spiel. In Dublin, Ohio, Denny Lynch, a vice president of Wendys International, says that the burger chain is looking into scholarships as a lure to start young people on an up-from-the-bottom career with the company...
...which John had made his product, coupled with his sly presentation, nettled me, closed up my ears. His cordial hustle had been effective enough that I answered him straightforwardly--but negatively. Chris just rolled his eyes, and shook his head. And in less than half a minute, his unsuccessful spiel through, John was gone...
...really hoping to Squeeze in an upbeat spiel about this once-proud pop group's resurrection. No such luck. COSI FAN TUTTI FRUTTI has but one inspired moment--its clever corruption of the Mozart opera title (Omigod, I mentioned real music). The rest is much sound'n fury, a thickly overlaid and confusing pastiche of synthetic pop gimmicks. What's more, there are no hooks...
After running down a Who's Who of 1980s personalities undergoing sexual identity crises. Engel consults various social scientists whom only the victim of a bad Social Studies seminar would ever have read. The androgyny rating is a reflection of the quality of our society, their spiel goes, and an admirable result of the breakdown of sexual barriers. Some blithe comments on Calvin Klein underwear, David Bowie, Boy George, and Harvey Fierstein are marshalled to support his belief that the sexes are converging, but Engel blows it in a big was when he use Prunce as an example of androgyny...
...spins at the National Theater in London and the Goodman in Chicago, he shows his peddlers caught in the entrepreneurial act. One pitchman recounts a conquest he made by sitting, silent and motionless, for 22 minutes in his customers' kitchen. Another salesman flimflams his client with a hilarious spiel about life, existentialism and the pleasure principle; the monologue has all the narrative logic of Dadaist graffiti, but it whets the appetite, clinches the sale, sets the sucker up for the kill...