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...Michener does not show a disciplined novelist's skills in the telling of this fatal drama. His account is disorganized and repetitious. It runs pretty far afield, too, variously embracing such things as Michener's view of faculty tenure (he is against it) and the origins of Opalocka, Fla., home town of the famous runaway teen-ager photographed grieving over one of the dead students...
Salesman is a good deal more ambitious and successful. Producers Al and David Maysles spent almost two months following a group of Bible salesmen on their rounds (which they refer to as "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...
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