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...course; Shakespeare and Molière learned their craft on the boards performing in their own plays. It can also be, and often is, argued that writing is a form of acting. "I act all my parts when I write a play," observes Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge). Miller says that he would probably have become a player if he had failed as a playwright. "I well could have," he says. "Some people think I'm pretty good...
Tyler does not trivialize motives with rationalizations. She launches her imagined lives and describes their trajectories with an unpretentious sense of fate. No explanations are necessary when Beck Tull, a retired traveling salesman, attends the funeral of the wife he left 35 years before and acts as if he has been on a long business trip. This occurs at the end of Homesick Restaurant, and the reader is not surprised. The scene has had careful preparation, and Tull has been well defined by his absence. He is the black hole around which his wife Pearl and children Cody. Jenny...
...Turk indicates that in cases of disputes between tenants and Harvard, "we have found that tenants' rights and interests were adequately protected by local and state laws administered by a variety of governmental agencies." In other words, HRE officials have taken the posture of the crafty used car salesman who tells his customer attempting to return a lemon: If you don't like it, sue me. Unfortunately for tenants, who have nowhere near the financial resources necessary to combat Harvard's stable of lawyers, fighting the University in court is like going on safari holding a rifle filled with blanks...
Figuring that-coming from Harvard and all-I was probably either lively or articulate, I resolved to be a dignified part-time book salesman with an Ivy League background, and, of course to be immensely successful. Neither aspiration worked...
...report that Robert London was a Ford car salesman who drove a leased Mazda RX7. How inconsistent can a person be? I feel sorry for him, but can't he accept a little responsibility for the depressed U.S. auto situation...