Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beard and Sandals. For an American, such success in the Italian fashion world is unprecedented, and Scott came a long way to achieve it. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father, an itinerant photographer and traveling salesman, died when he was twelve, leaving the family destitute. Scott worked after school dressing store windows, went to Manhattan in 1940 to study art with Painters Moses and Rafael Soyer. "I wore sandals and a beard," he says. "Oh, I was one of the early hippies." He switched to designing fabrics, took off for Paris in 1947, and has been...
...seem to revise his delivery according to its impact. His voice was so low-keyed that the people in back complained he was unexciting; those in front were far more moved. It is Goodwin's argument, not his delivery, that is convincing. The man is an analyst, not a salesman...
...romance held firm until Dowling left the Mid-West to come to Yale. "I almost died," Sue said at the time. "Yes, it was hard leaving her," Brian recalls, "but I wanted to go to Yale and play football." Sue has since married, Marvin Plumb, a tractor salesman...
...Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has ever offered, Lee J. Cobb gives the finest performance of a lengthy and distinguished acting career. A graduate of the militantly proletarian Group Theater of the late '30s, he was the quintessential Willy Loman in Broadway's first production of Death of a Salesman. Conventionally cast as a Hollywood heavy in many of his countless films (among them: Thieves' Highway, On the Waterfront), he almost invariably brought glimmerings of insight to even the most routine parts. At the age of 57, he is quite clearly ready for the challenge of Lear. His king is blind...
...professor, Tattersall explores the U.S. penchant for nerve-racking upward mobility by trying it in reverse. In an excess of whim and Weltschmerz, he runs through a job in advertising ("I stink, therefore I am"), a stint as a successful TV singer, and on down through door-to-door salesman, street peddler, gardener, handyman and tramp. He winds up living in a run-down tenement, selling canned "fresh air" door to door to help take care of a mumbling mongoloid boy and a drunken mongrel basset hound. One night he gets his head caught in a dog door that...