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...their upper-middle-class San Diego neighbors, Insurance Salesman Franklin Agustin and his travel agent wife Julie seemed a conventional, hardworking couple. But according to U.S. Customs Service and FBI agents who arrested the two last week, the Agustins were ringleaders of an international smuggling operation. For at least two years, the pair allegedly shipped stolen replacement parts for F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft to Iran, a country that has not legally received U.S. weapons since the takeover by Ayatullah Khomeini in 1979. Customs officials say an anonymous source tipped them to Franklin Agustin, an illegal alien from the Philippines...
Asked to name a prototypical Sundance-type plot, he pointed to the works of Arthur Miller. “[He] could have written Sundance movies,” he says. “Death of a Salesman, if you set it in a trailer park, could have been...
Daugherty, who lives in a homeless shelter in Quincy, Mass., attributes his marketing skills to his father and friends, but adds that his own outgoing nature comes in handy as a salesman...
...Interest in Tragedy Most assessments of Death of a Salesman, by playwright Arthur Miller [APPRECIATION, Feb. 21], called the drama a masterpiece. Yet when the play opened on Broadway 56 years ago and drew rave reviews, TIME's critic was rather less enthusiastic. The piece we published, however, gave insight into Miller's point of view...
...Death of a Salesman is no more than an altogether creditable play. But it is also a magnificent try, concerned with something so simple, central and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it. It reveals the tragedy of a typical American who loses out by trying too hard to win out; it chronicles the propless failure born of the worship of success ... Now a solid front-ranker among young U.S. playwrights, Arthur Miller took last week's success with caution. WHEN A FRIEND SAID THAT HE HAD 'ARRIVED,' MILLER PROTESTED: 'YOU NEVER ARRIVE...