Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Journalists shook their heads in confusion at this latest twist in Iranian press relations. "They're either tossing you out or giving you lunch," mused one. But Bani-sadr's pitch for newspaper diplomacy underlined the crucial and delicate role the press is playing in the confrontation...
Director-Writer Robert Benton and his cast have made their own Scenes from a Marriage-a domestic drama that starts at a wrenching pitch and builds and builds to the threshold of pain. Yet the film is not imitation Bergman; it is, above all, peculiarly American. Adapting a popular novel by Avery Corman, Benton tells an unpretentious story that might well have served such vintage Hollywood tearjerkers as George Stevens' Penny Serenade and King Vidor's Stella Dallas...
Chrysler has, however, been showing some signs of financial sanity recently. For example, it has abandoned its policy of building cars on speculations. (This year Chrysler had 80,000 new models that nobody wanted. Enter Joe Garagiola and his brilliant sales pitch: Buy a Chrysler, get a check.) And Friday, Chrysler decided to stop giving out dividends to preferred stockholders...
...President Leonid Brezhnev, who last week dispelled rumors that he was gravely ill by appearing in public for the first time in 16 days (he showed up at a Moscow airport to welcome South Yemen's President), made ample use of both when he first launched the Soviet pitch in East Berlin on Oct. 6. On the one hand, he warned that if NATO carried out its ''dangerous'' plan, the Warsaw Pact would have to ''take necessary extra steps''-meaning an additional arms build-up of its own. On the other...
...Webern predicted. Many listeners may never get past what sounds cryptic and arid to them in his work. But these new discs show to what extent performers have mastered his difficult idiom in the past two decades. Among the highlights: the feathery shading of Soprano HeatheR Harper's pitch in the early songs; the tensile, wire-sculpture precision of members of the Juilliard String Quartet in the String Trio (1927); the transparent textures and rhythmic subtlety of Boulez and the L.S.O. in Variations for Orchestra...