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None of these movies approach the tense excellence of what may be the all-time best-of-breed: Director Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), in which Dennis Weaver plays a peaceable salesman hurrying to a meeting through rugged desert country and incurring the psychopathic rage of a truck driver by passing him on a hill. His desperate efforts to avoid murder by collision with a relentless foe, whose face neither he nor the audience ever glimpses, is an unforgettable exercise in the action-suspense category...
...existent Harvard career, is Act I, Scene 5 of a 1971 play entitled "Dr. Hero." The setting: a university board room with an admissions committee meeting in progress. Enter the protagonist, an unloved youth named Hero who will rise to the top using his pushy, arrogant, salesman-like personality. Hero is a college applicant, appearing before the admissions committee to be judged on a ludicrous basis--the ability to name ten Dickens's titles. Hero speaks...
...swap can add unnecessary family expenses-at least at the beginning. Onaitis, for example, who frequently squanders part of the weekly food budget his wife gives him on his favorite toasted soybeans and sunflower seeds, once signed up for seven magazine subscriptions in one day. He liked the salesman...
...putative monarchs include a Jesuit teacher-priest, a publisher, a salesman for Lockheed Aircraft and the nephew of Terence O'Neill, the former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Most are businessmen, bankers or gentlemen farmers, living, if not in castles in Spain, on the palpable hope of restoration as well as on decent incomes. Not one appears to be a dimwit, a dinosaur or a debauchee or even a gossip-column item. Perhaps the one who conies closest to being a gay blade is Prince Louis-Ferdinand, 66, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and claimant to the empire...
...producer in history who was named after one of his own corporations. Born in a Polish ghetto, he received his first American name - Goldfish - from an immigration official when he arrived in New York City in 1896 as a 13-year-old. Under it, he prospered as a glove salesman and entered the movies as a partner of Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille. In 1913 they made The Squaw Man, one of the first feature-length films produced in Hollywood. The trio sold out to the combine that became Paramount, and Goldfish teamed with two brothers named Selwyn...