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...SALESMAN. The Maysles Brothers spent six weeks filming an actual group of New England Bible salesmen at work; the result is an arresting and occasionally appalling cinema verite record of one desperate part of American society...
...book, he erupted. Among other things, Kawasaki had quoted a remark generally attributed to General Charles de Gaulle: just before a formal chat in 1964 with the late Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, he confided that "today I am going to have a little talk with a transistor-radio salesman." Even more annoying to Aichi was Kawasaki's charge that in Japan "there is clearly an absence of leadership at the top, no realization of what is best in the national interest, a shortage of moral courage and discipline." Political parties got short shrift: they "have hardly made a positive...
...SALESMAN. The Maysles Brothers spent six weeks filming a group of New England Bible salesmen at work to produce this arresting and occasionally appalling cinema verite record of one desperate part of American society...
Positive: Tenacious, patient, sensitive, persuasive Negative: Moody, unforgiving Career: Teacher, salesman...
Zolar, a New York astrologer, does not write a newspaper column but profits amply from every other form of astrological activity. A former clothing salesman named Bruce King, he turned to astrology during the Depression, when he learned that a certain Professor Seward had amassed a fortune peddling horoscopes on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Now 72, he supervises the distribution of more than 50 zodiacal and occult items and books all over the world. Zolar horoscopes range from $200 for a personal one down to $25 for a stock-market forecast in a plain envelope (ten choices...