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...Rain Man and Shine, made his tics and facial expressions consistent and believable without making a mockery of his mentally challenged character. As Dr. Dysart, McCarthy demonstrated an impressive command of a demanding script and shifted skillfully, if a bit belatedly, from two-dimensional straight man to anxious Everyman in the second...
...when the two flashed their Everyman's credit cards for the press last week, somebody should have checked the dates. The cards were so shiny they might have been minted that morning--and not so Fisher and Mack could go on a shopping spree at Sears. No. They had already been shopping in a much bigger store: the stock market. The cards were part of their quarry, a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter Discover that signals an interest in common folks unprecedented at Morgan Stanley since it split from the J.P. Morgan bank...
...competition for workers inspires some recruiters to try novel approaches. Cisco Systems, a computer networking company that is hiring employees at the rate of 1,200 a quarter, links its online recruitment site cisco.com/jobs/ to the home page for Dilbert, the hapless comic-strip geek Everyman, much loved in the Valley. And just last month San Francisco drivers were startled by a billboard that shouted in electronic letters: CISCO Systems. 600 JOBS AVAILABLE...
...patriarch of a small family in the fictitious town of Arlen, Texas, Hank Hill--Judge's new Everyman--is the show's articulate voice and conscience. Unlike Homer, he is no bumbling dreamer but rather a man who takes earnest pride in his life as a father and propane salesman. If the Simpson family remains on a jaunty, fruitless ride to escape the banalities and inconveniences of middle-class life, the Hills--Hank, his wife Peggy and son Bobby--are a grimmer, reality-based lot, who doggedly accept the burdens of their position. The show is languidly paced and less...
...Mosley's other novels, the plot is mostly incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. In Fishin', Easy emerges as an Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...