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...long ago, selling American cars in Japan was downright quixotic. The U.S. vehicles were known for lousy quality, high prices and crummy service. But no longer. Hisashi Honma, a 22-year-old salesman at a Ford dealership near Tokyo, can't get enough Mustangs, Tauruses and Mondeos for all the customers who want to buy them. One ordered a European-made Ford Mondeo wagon last month, even though he will have to wait three months for delivery. In May, Ford imported 2,500 of its muscular new Mustangs; they sold out in two months...
...common fallacy to assume that musical comedies are simply plays in which, for some unaccountable reason, some of the words are sung instead of spoken. But to judge any serious music-theater work as if it aspired to be Hamlet or Death of a Salesman is wrong. Even in the heyday of Harrigan and Hart and Cohan, it was the music and the production numbers that drove the action. Who today remembers the plot of a single Gershwin show? True, it was Hammerstein who condensed Ferber and gave her characters sharp, affecting lyrics to sing. But it was Kern...
...life of a former Negro League baseball player. The movie has yet to be made. Wilson is equally skeptical of so-called color-blind casting, in which black actors play traditionally white parts and vice versa. "I don't think you can do a black Death of a Salesman, for example, without looking at the fact that here's a black guy who's going around knocking on people's doors selling stuff in 1949. In 1949 he can't go around knocking on white people's doors without getting in trouble," he says. "It's just not logical...
...evanescent, conjured reality (Cedras evil ... er, that is, I mean, Cedras good) must be present and true -- at the time. The salesman or the politician requires persuasive hallucinations to earn a living.But those who, * like me, voted for Clinton and have wished him well believe now that his multilayered, many dimensioned reality, too slick by half, lacks a moral core...
Whereas other Presidents might have viewed such direct involvement as unfair interference with the free market -- or maybe just declasse mercantilism -- Clinton, the putative populist, has turned out to be a natural in the role of salesman. It is not, of course, a selfless role: Administration officials maintain that by boosting U.S. exports, 13 million new American jobs can be created by the year 2000. To drive home the point after the President helped close the Boeing deal, Vice President Al Gore visited a Boeing plant in Seattle to announce the good news to cheering workers there...