Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...businesses, and they've heard about what you can do through an offshore bank," says Tampa IRS supervisor Morris Dittman. "Others have cash that rolls out of the drug trade. When a druggie buys a big home and car for cash, you have a real estate agent and a salesman with sudden cash, and they begin wondering if they have to share it with the Government...
TRUST by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; $18.95). Another installment of petty schemers and low-life banter for Higgins fans, but other readers will feel it takes far too long for the protagonist, a crooked used-car salesman, to get his comeuppance...
...woke up on the floor of someone's office one morning and didn't know where I was," says Walker, 30. Having clean underwear and shirts delivered to the office by messenger too many times finally convinced him that he should make a switch. Now, as an institutional bond salesman with UBS Securities, he makes more money and has the time to enjoy...
...tragedy of Death of a Salesman, like Willy's expectations, can be overwhelming. Willy Loman's family is on the edge of collapse, and the level of intensity in Miller's script is on the edge of unbearable. Thankfully, Woody Hill's production of the play in the Leverett House Old Library balances expertly on that edge and renders a painfully beautiful shattering of the American Dream...
...exploration of the roots of Willy's breakdown, Death of a Salesman straddles past and present, forcing the cast to portray a wide range of psychological stages that span 20 years. That these shifts are so gracefully performed is hardly surprising in a production as seamless as this...