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...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Apart from Death of a Salesman, this is Arthur Miller's most compelling effort to dramatize the tragedy of a common man. Robert Duvall's gutsy portrayal of the doomed longshoreman-hero gives the play a tingling emotional impact...
...Dawn herself stole a five-ring Olympic banner from the Imperial Palace Grounds, was tackled by pursuing cops as she tried to dive into the palace moat. When police found out who she was, they made her a present of the flag. And how about the poor Japanese traveling salesman who committed the error of parking outside the Aussie dorm-only to discover later that ?400 ($1,120) worth of transistor radios had disappeared from...
Evie ogles the sights and buys a souvenir Statue of Liberty, but New York's hottest attraction turns out to be a greeting-card salesman named Harry (Glenn Ford). Evie looks at him and feels reckless. He looks at her and decides that she is nothing to write home about. Besides, he already has more than one postmistress. Engaged to a widow in Altoona (Angela Lansbury), he has just ended an affair with Artist Patricia Barry, and is warmly entreating the blonde (Barbara Nichols) at the hotel newsstand to be his "secret pal" for the night. The blonde agrees...
Bernard Asbell is a salesman for Progress. He believes that the "whole new thing happening in America" is a good thing that will get even better as soon as people learn to trust it. The "whole new thing" is automation, and the motto Asbell wants to inscribe over the escalator to the future is (freely rendered) "materialistic mind over matter...
...April 13, 1962, he was arrested in Salisbury by the Rhodesian government and illegally handed over to the Portuguese Security Police, the PIDE, who whisked him off for interrogation in Mozambique. Then began two years of torture, imprisonment, and finally trial, which completed Siguake's transformation from traveling salesman-politician to revolutionary...