Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a man whose drag a film crew wit him from house to house, despite tapering sales?) This isn't any salesman; it is a Bible salesman. The choice is not that arbitrary. The world of commerce has sucked up religious life; Christ's passion is another pitch in American's long sales talk. The contradictions of salesman lie in the sinister meaning the history of capitalism has given to Luck 2:49. Christ, having been reprimanded by his parents for I must be about my Father's business?" A Catholic priest, spiritual consultant to Brennan's employer (each Bible...
...exposing contradiction, the intellectual limitations of the direct cinema style are stifling to all but the simplest ideas. Don't Look Back never gets us [pat one man's faltering sales pitch. The unreconstructed reality of direct cinema can give us only those dialectic contradictions observable from a single perspective; for dialectic and analytic insight we must look elsewhere...
Just past the portals of Gallery C, a wing of one of the fine-arts buildings at California State College in Long Beach, the visitor pushed through a many-layered curtain of black vinyl and entered a pitch-black world. His only guide was his sense of touch. Through tubes and rubbery barricades, up and down gradients, past something that felt like an oscillating fur muff, the visitor groped his way. Just before emerging again into the light, he was engulfed, not unpleasantly, by a water-filled plastic mattress with a temperature about the same...
...drive-in movies and cramps in the groin. And after the reconciliation, with Myrrhina chasing him, he gives a similarly convincing impression of exhaustion. Judith Wells' Myrrhina is a bit colorless at first, but in the scene where she is commanded by Lysistrata to raise Cinesias to fever pitch and then leave him high and dry, she becomes a genuinely enticing piece, a bit of voluptuous femininity. Unfortunately, Dorothea Chunis as Kalonike and Elin Diamond as a bucolic Theban woman had roles far too small for actresses of their ability; Miss Diamond, in particular, created an unforgettable character with several...
...years and 23 minor-league victories later, McNally made his debut with the Orioles by pitching a two-hit shutout against the Kansas City Athletics and winning a permanent place in the starting rotation. But then he became one of those supposedly sure bets that never quite pays off. Until last year, he had only one good season (13-6); that was 1966, the year the Orioles won the pennant and took the World Series in four straight. In 1967, he tore a tendon and developed something of a paunch, finished the year with a disappointing 7-7 record. Before...