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...best magazine photographers go everywhere, shoot everything. For the most part they are represented by one of the six major agencies- Sygma, Magnum, Gamma-Liaison, Sipa, Black Star and Contact- which, for a fee (usually 40% to 50% of sales), play mother and salesman, lining up buyers throughout the world. Most of the agencies have their headquarters in Paris, and Paris is also home base for many photojournalists. "Geographically, it's the ideal place to be," says Robert Pledge, president of Contact. "It's halfway between Washington Moscow, Hamburg and Madrid...
...Christopher Walken's face is a gigolo's death mask: the character lines have been ironed out, leaving only the dry-ice eyes and the knowing pout. As icons, these four performers would seem perfect for the bittersweet revisionism of this musical drama about a sheet-music salesman (Martin), his frigid wife (Harper), his nice-turned-naughty mistress (Peters) and his slick rival (Walken).But icons do not always make for compelling screen personalities-especially when, as here, more is demanded than just another appropriate face...
Sales are "down a bit," but "firearms are always a big seller," at Blum Jewelry, and this year is no exception. Business is best when "you get the wife coming in and buying her husband a little Christmas present," salesman Theodore J. Hunt said last night...
Pierce has not been an articulate salesman or apologist for the Administration's policies. "He underwhelms us," says one Democratic Congressman. Even the conservative Heritage Foundation faulted Pierce for not effectively promoting tax-exempt urban development zones, a concept he favors, and for seeming to have no creative policies to compensate for the budget cuts. Pierce says that he deliberately has kept a low profile while learning his department. His supporters say that he is now about ready to make his move. For the moment, he gets a slow-learner...
...reputation as a film genius and made him an industry pariah for pursuing the taboo topic. In the title role, Welles is terrific and it is just impossible to reconcile the image of him as the megalomaniac Kane with that of the ursine talk-show regular and Californian wine salesman...