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...intractability on the Israel issue. The Saudi ruling family recently reaffirmed that its principal enemy remains Israel--not the Soviet Union, as the Reagan Administration with its dream of a "strategic consensus" would wish, and as the State Department thought it had settled. The U.S. acted as an arms salesman, the Saudis as a cash-carrying customer. "Credibility" was of no concern...
Robert London was a Ford car salesman with his share of the comforts of middle-class life in Southern California, He drove a leased Mazda RX 7, rented a pleasant apartment in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale and had a closetful of sports jackets and ties. A bachelor, London spent almost all of his income, which in better times reached $2,000 a month...
...persevered. Her six-mile commute from school to home took 7½ hr. Thousands of people were marooned overnight in office buildings, shopping malls and a mortuary. Atlantans rushed to stock up on portable heaters, batteries, lanterns and candles. "It's been crazy, totally insane," said Hardware Store Salesman James Hoelscher. "We're sold out of just about everything." In fact, the clamor for survival equipment was not just hysteria: 1,000 Atlanta-area homes were without heat for twelve hours...
What follows is a kind of courtroom trial in which Davenport interrogates everyone and reconstructs the crime in flashback. The flashback is a tell-and-show device. It can be used with fluid emotional mastery, as Arthur Miller used it in Death of a Salesman; here it seems more like a dry studied exercise on a schoolroom blackboard...
MEET ARTHUR PARKER. He's a traveling sheet-music salesman with a lot of dreams. He dreams of his own music store and an escape from the drudgery of everyday life. He dreams of a beautiful woman who will revel with him in the pleasures of the flesh. Sometimes he says things like, "Listen, there's got to be something on the other side of the rainbow." At other times, he wails, "There must be a place somewhere in the world where the songs are real." But it's 1934, and only stars like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have...