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...BRIGHT DAY in Kent, England retired glove salesman W. Morgan Petty heard about an interview with a prominent American General. Not to worry, said the general: A nuclear war can be confined to a very small area. Petty was greatly encouraged by those findings- certianly the Super Powers had nothing against him or any of his neighbors and would therefore pick a small area well away from his house. So Petty and his tenacious sidekick Roger declared the house and garden a nuclear free zone...
...this eponymous town, circa 18.90, come two men hot in pursuit of the dream. Mickey Hollister (John Bottoms), an experienced roughneck going rapidly downhill, and Bobby Nobis (John Stehiln) a young software salesman-turned-cowboy, are after the big paychecks available in the oil boom of the late...
Iacocca talks nonstop, like the salesman he is. If not for the humor and the regular flashes of common sense, his declamations would be rants. When Iacocca gets going, which is usual, he pauses only when he runs out of breath. He is in such a rush to say so many things that he cannot always be bothered to find the mot juste: if guys is his trademark noun, helluva is Iacocca's favorite modifier...
Says Schuller: "I'm trying to be a source of emotional nourishment to people." People, he adds, who would ordinarily have nothing to do with a church. As a salesman, Schuller has few peers. Praising his marketing savvy, Barr says, "Most churches are having difficulty attracting new members, so what Schuller has done cannot be overlooked...
...revealing trait: the parents so in love with their young children that they wake them in mid-evening, just to be with them some more; the long-married woman who reflexively takes on the opposite mood to whatever her husband is feeling; the house salesman who comes close to true rapture in envisioning domestic bliss for all his customers. When Kitty, the best-sketched figure, loses her second husband to another man, the reader can guess the precise tone in which she describes her rival to divert sympathy: "Don't be silly. He's a nice...