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...your Father's business"), from Boston to Opalocka, Fla. The result is a nightmare version of, in Al Maysles' phrase, "a part of the American dream." Salesman's central figure is a middle-aged Massachusetts Irishman named Paul Brennan, whom his cronies nickname "The Badger." He holds one of the MidAmerican Bible Co.'s better than average sales records, but as the film progresses, his luck turns ("I can't get any action . . . These people are croaking me"). He finally quits to sell roofing and siding. In the film's last scene, The Badger...
...City of New York Commission on Human Opportunity. His parents--"the two outstanding producers and packagers of guilt in our time"--are the expected, overprotective Jewish mother and her long-suffering, constipated husband (whose constipation seems to rival Luther's in cosmic significance.) Togther they praise and badger Portnoy until he finds himself in a paradoxical position: his family considers him among "princes . . . and saviours and sheer perfection on the one hand, and such bumbling incompetent, thoughtless, helpless, selfish, evil little shits, little ingrates, on the other!" Having made a career out of adolescent masturbation (because...
...BIRTHDAY FOR FRANCES, by Russell and Lillian Hoban (Harper & Row; $2.95). The mischievous song-singing little badger, Frances, is back with a new adventure, this time exhibiting all the natural childhood jealousies as preparations are made for her sister's birthday party. After a great deal of soul searching, Frances gives her sister a present, a much squeezed "Chompo...
...become the Soviets' main Mediterranean port of call, Alexandria. Soviet patrol boats tie up 1,700 miles to the west at the Algerian port of Mers-el-Kebir. Soviet subs play hide-and-seek with NATO patrols underneath the heel of Italy. Overhead, from bases in Egypt, Soviet "Badger" class planes, their red stars painted over with Egyptian markings, wing daily across the Mediterranean to shadow Allied fleets...
...Governor Sam Goddard, aided by a liquor-board scandal uncovered in the debris of Goddard's earlier regime. Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship following a divorce earlier this year, managed to trounce Democrat Bronson LaFollette, 32, heir to a grand old Badger State name, but a man of little political experience. New Mexico's David Cargo, 39, barely squeaked past Democrat Fabian Chavez in a down-to-the-wire race. On the other hand, such Democrats as Missouri's Warren Hearnes, 45, North Dakota's William L. Guy, 49, Utah's Calvin...