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GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS by David Mamet...
...line product is always himself. This was one message in Death of a Salesman, which was more interested in romanticizing failure than in demonstrating whether Willy Loman was ever very good at his trade. David Mamet is no romantic. In his monstrously entertaining Glengarry Glen Ross, which opened on Broadway last week after earlier spins at the National Theater in London and the Goodman in Chicago, he shows his peddlers caught in the entrepreneurial act. One pitchman recounts a conquest he made by sitting, silent and motionless, for 22 minutes in his customers' kitchen. Another salesman flimflams his client...
...Chicago real estate office that is the principal setting for Glengarry Glen Ross, the real cutthroat swordsmanship is for the most promising "leads" (lists of hot prospects); from these come "sits" (in-person meetings with the customer) and the hallowed "closing" of the deal. This month the agency is holding a contest among its four salesmen: Roma (Joe Mantegna), the slick master of sympathetic patter; Aaronow (Mike Nussbaum), an aging nebbish trudging on the treadmill of anxiety; Moss (James Tolkan), bullet-headed and bull-tempered; and Levene (Robert Prosky), a salesman on a long losing streak, who can beam like...
...Harvard men's and women's ski teams both scored strong finishes in their nine-team meets at Mad River Glen, Vt. this weekend, good enough to advance them to the Division II championships next weekend at Syracuse...
...victory over Calgary was identified as "God." If this was the work of a mischiefmaker, it caused no confusion among the readers. Considering the company he keeps, no wonder then that Kurri is scarcely noticed. "Playing on the same line with Wayne Gretzky," Oilers Coach Glen Sather denies saying a few years ago, "a fire hydrant could score 40 goals." Whoever authored the phrase, Kurri has worn out several Finnish-English dictionaries trying to decipher it. Most often the third party on the line is Jaroslav Pouzar, a Czechoslovak with his own dictionary. "I do most of the talking...