Word: pitchman
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...lick him -age-offered the new heavyweight champion of the world a fancy future: his best bouts and biggest purses (this one: $114,000) were still ahead. "Patterson has the potentialities of a great fighter," said Archie when he found his tongue. For the first time ever, the gaudy pitchman was guilty of astonishing understatement. What the sport needed next was some men good enough to take on the young and growing champ. The man most fitted for the assignment: Retired Champion Rocky Marciano...
...qualifying "disclaimer" or have found means of skirting the principle of the code; e.g., just before the show goes off the air, comes a vague rider: "Portions of tonight's commercials were dramatized," a device not likely to destroy the listener's faith in the pince-nezed pitchman with the stethoscope...
...Molnar-Hammerstein plot, in particular, shows its greasepaint complexion on the screen. Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae) is a carnival pitchman, and what he pitches best of all is woo. Underneath his brattitude, of course, Billy is a real home-cookin' kid-just the sort of wild bull that really wants a wedding ring in his nose. And, of course, he gets one. He chases a fresh-faced little New England factory girl (Shirley Jones) so hard that she catches him. Billy has lost his carnival job, but he is too big a man to take work on a filthy...
...Rose Tattoo (Hal Wallis; Paramount), like the Tennessee Williams play from which it is adapted, is less a show, in a dramatic sense, than a sideshow-a gatherum of Pitchman Williams' less peculiar freaks. The principal exhibit is Serafina Delle Rose (Anna Magnani), a hearty peasant wench transplanted from Sicily to the Gulf Coast. Since the death of her husband, a small-time smuggler, she has turned into a sort of moral worm crawling in and out of his memory. She keeps his ashes in a gimcrack vase in their shanty parlor, and has long, sweaty daydreams about...
...night-when the inebriate becomes sentimental, the salesman paces his hotel room, the insomniac looks through his medicine cabinet. Radio fills the lonely time with all-night music, but television has moved more uncertainly. It has the brash irrelevancies of Steve Allen, the late late movies, the fast-talking pitchman promising a better, lanolin-coated world for $1 down and $1 a week...