Word: spiels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekend here and you'll never want to live anywhere else," proclaimed the sales brochure for the 42 lots of the Whitewater project near Flippin in northern Arkansas. However, despite the scenic snapshots and the homey-but- hokey handwritten spiel, no one was buying into the forested real estate development. To spur sales, Jim McDougal, a local savings and loan tycoon, % thought he needed a model home -- and the help of one of his Whitewater partners, Hillary Rodham, as she then called herself. In 1980 McDougal loaned her $30,000 to build, own and ultimately sell a three-bedroom ranch...
Sean's conversation-stopper--"what do you think about Harvard women?"--was a running joke by the time we hit Baltimore. He had a whole tongue-in-cheek spiel to go with...
...insists, of course, that all he really wants is to serve his clients. "Imagine all of the most talented artists here," he says, extending his right hand, palm up. "Over there," he says, pointing to a television set and launching into a spiel that he may have delivered once or twice before, "is a primitive version of a machine that will offer nearly unlimited possibilities for entertainment within about 10 years. What I have to do is get these talented people through a period of relatively low demand the best way I can. Because once those technologies are in place...
...really did think I blew it," she said. "They gave us a little spiel beforehand about how we were all winners. I was trying to take it to heart...
...talking to a lot of people, politically stranded by the media, who believe that only he is talking to them. But no one has proposed him for President or Messiah; and he declares he would not apply for either job. Other listeners abhor the political product but enjoy the spiel. You can find diversion in any aspect of the Limbaugh carnival: the tight-wire walker or the Tilt-a-Whirl, the sideshow barker or the geek. You might even find it salutary to have your own exalted prejudices shaken by him. Last time we looked, Rush was still popular...