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Most consumers, studies have shown, believe themselves impervious to the pitiful ploys of advertising.
Since then, I have updated FRAMEWORK II to FRAMEWORK III to add, as they say in the trade, a few “bells and whistles,” and, because my present computer is configured with only 640,000 bytes of RAM (RandomAccess Memory) and can perform only a pitiful five zillion operations a second, I am planning to add RAM and memory to enable it to perform a few zillion more--or is that per millisecond or microsecond?
On the one hand, she's the pitiful victim of our hypocrisy and our unnecessary shame.
When the '60s veterans try to play some pitiful music, they are quickly drowned out by the frantic brainstorming of their corporate descendants.
(Some of the freshest lines in the book come with his description of Oliver Stone's film The Doors , which "offers an inadvertent parody, a portrait of an amateur oracle's excruciatingly dull metamorphosis into a pitiful, drunken slob.")