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...wasn't a movie, but it probably will be. As he told it, Heinz Braun, an East Berlin tire salesman, last week painted his auto to resemble a Soviet patrol car, dressed himself and three mannequins in Red Army uniforms, and coolly drove through a Berlin Wall checkpoint to West Berlin. Wolfgang Quasner, 45, a West Berliner who claims to have helped more than 1,000 East European refugees in the past 20 years, identified himself as the mastermind. % Quasner said he and confederates photographed Soviet army patrols and then had uniforms made. They smuggled the mannequins and attire...
...shows take varying approaches to the task of explaining an artist. An early program on Architect Philip Johnson, for instance, simply depended on the words of the articulate artist himself. Another, Private Conversations, chronicled the creative process, eavesdropping on the filming of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman. The behind-the-scenes glimpses were illuminating but not especially pretty. After 90 minutes of intense ego management, the participants seemed diminished, not enhanced, by the scrutiny...
...sits in a hotel bar waiting for the right man to come along: "She could see the stairs, where sooner or later the chap would appear. He'd buy a drink and then he'd look around and there she'd be." In Music, Justin Condon, a traveling salesman of women's underwear, sustains himself with the vision of being a romantic composer. Yet these characters do not come across as failures. Trevor makes the yearnings of ordinary people seem as significant as the accomplishments of the exceptional...
...remake the high court shares many of his roots and values. Like Reagan, Rehnquist left his boyhood home in the Midwest to head for the Far West, where he embraced the frontier verities of rugged individualism and a respect for law-and-order. The son of a paper salesman, Rehnquist grew up in the quiet Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood. After serving three years in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he used the G.I. Bill to go to Stanford. Graduating first in his class from Stanford Law (a classmate was Sandra Day O'Connor), he was selected...
...aluminum siding salesman, Ueberroth was born in Evanston, Ill. on September 2, 1937. When he was 14, after his father became ill, Ueberroth began working a variety of odd jobs. He became increasingly independent, and by the time he was in high school, he had begun to pay his own bills. In Ueberroth's junior year, he moved out of the house to live and work at an orphanage as the recreational director...