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...know, maybe Freud was rightmaybe we are all doomed to repeat the mistakes of our parents. Perhaps that explains why I campaigned door-to-door for Herbert Hoover last year. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'd like to be Harvard President, although, come to think of it, the one person I know who went to Harvard was my cousin Irving, who later had a nervous breakdown in which he put on a squirrel costume and tried to climb the Empire State Building, so maybe its not such a hot idea after...
...than standard triple-X fare. For one thing, couples tend to emphasize story line as well as visuals. More important, notes psychologist Lonnie Barbach of San Francisco, "it's not just plumbing shots of anonymous people." One Minneapolis couple combined a sleazy script with agile camerawork. "I was a door-to-door salesman, and she was the housewife," says Michael, in reality a business manager. During the taping, the pair stopped the action to move the camera around the bed, adjust the zoom lens and do retakes. Despite such antics, the experience ultimately proved moving emotionally. Viewing...
Life-insurance salesmen are normally a garrulous lot. But many are keeping mum after publication this month of a Los Angeles Times article chronicling the latest industry boomlet: door-to-door pitchmen have been plying the city's most crime-plagued neighborhoods and brandishing blood-and-guts clippings from the local press in order to sell cheap policies to residents who might be vulnerable to street violence. The insurance typically costs $10 a month for up to $10,000 in death benefits, enough to cover basic funeral services...
...been going door-to-door in the first-year dormitory apparently trying to sell magazines, police said...
Dubbed "the Japanese Tsunami," Fujimori surprised Peru's longtime favorite son by appealing to the country's desperate poor in a door-to-door campaign through shantytowns and farm villages. Although a native of Peru, Fujimori benefited from Japan's reputation as the new economic superpower. On a political talk show he mentioned Vargas Llosa's claim that "he can get $1 billion from the Japanese," then added with a grin, "I ask myself, Why aren't they going to give it to Alberto Fujimori...