At the same time, technologies like TiVo and spam filters are putting "the consumer in control," Mr. Fetherstonhaugh said, so "the salesperson needs to get invited in".
Kill The Messenger, set in 1994-6, even opens in direct homage to The Parallax View: a door opens, a reporter stands outside, he gets invited in, and is present when police raid the building.
A few do spectacularly well, bringing up the average, but even so, it appears that you make money only if you are part of that select crowd that gets invited in at the official offering price.
However, vampires are renowned for disguising themselves to get invited in![11].
I was just shown a demo for Pogo, a 3D browser based on Mozilla that is in private beta (we should be getting invites in a couple weeks).
I get invited in to teach, perform and educate the kids about the blues as the root of all American music.
In one of the few laughter-provoking moments of the evening, Elverum sang of the ambivalent pleasures of getting invited, earlier in the year, to an outdoor music festival where he played his new songs "to a bunch of young people on drugs" before partying into the night with Skrillex and Father John Misty.
Getting invited to play in the Masters is like getting invited to the country-club formal: the dance cards don't go out to just anyone.
There were a few yurts set up, so we went over to one and got ourselves invited in by adeptly playing the foreigner card.
