Word: countergirl
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...Kinnear's Don is so wide-eyed in his early naivete, he might be a calf sauntering unawares toward the stun gun; once he sees the ugly light, he disappears from the film. The teenage Amber (Ashley Johnson), who grows from a Mickey's countergirl to an animal-rights activist, is just another couple of chapter headings for the charnel issues being raised. Same with Sylvia (Maria Full of Grace's Catalina Sandino Moreno), one of the horribly exploited immigrants. Even someone (like me) who might agree with every political point in the film will get exasperated with the obviousness...
...Sunderland) died before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb esthete; the daughter married and divorced a Prince, adopted a swami; the youngest son seduced a countergirl, grew so brash in his manners that Daniel Pardway had to order him away. All this is the more painful because it is Daniel Pardway's ambition to leave the Bazaar to his offspring. The news that his general manager has bought up shares in the Bazaar which were presented...
...Cohen as by aging, bitter, impotent Daniel. A final tour de force, significant perhaps but fraught with almighty coincidence, is the ascendancy of "the alien conqueror," Abe Ullman, Daniel's scheming merchandiser, who captures the big store from the children and is in turn captured by a onetime countergirl whom Freddie Pardway seduced. There are power and sweep to Sweepings (the title comes from old Daniel's pennyscrimping examinations of the store's daily refuse, in the odd socks, ravelings, scraps and broken tinsel of which he finally recognizes his children). Its rapid motion is even, sure...
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