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...Amazon and Dell to the quintessential category killer, Wal-Mart, which analysts estimate sold $17 billion in electronics in 2004. With challengers like those, Best Buy knows it cannot compete on price alone. Instead, CEO Anderson, a 32-year veteran at the company who began as an in-store salesman and ascended to the top job in 2002, wants Best Buy to differentiate itself by focusing on upscale customers and providing them with the hand holding and service that today's increasingly complex electronics invite but that the Wal-Marts of the world, with their lean staffing, aren't equipped...
...mind, and some thoughts about its tragic theme--a man selling his soul and eventually his life to the false values of materialist America. By the wee hours he had completed the first draft of the first act of the play that was eventually known as Death of a Salesman...
...rest took a little longer--about six weeks--not counting production rewrites. But Elia Kazan, then his best friend, and perhaps always his best director, was correct when he wrote that Miller "didn't write Death of a Salesman; he released it." Not a week has passed since the play premiered on Broadway 56 years ago this month when it was not playing somewhere in the world, playing too on our instinctive response to an instinctive work...
...band opened with perhaps the best-known single off their new album, “Death of a Salesman,” a delicate song reminiscent of slow They Might Be Giants tunes, as Sparhawk sighed out haunting lyrics like, “The future is prisons and math.” After two more Destroyer songs, Low delved languidly into a song from their previous release, the dark Trust, called “(That’s How You Sing) Amazing Grace,” a delicate song that bares the gritty spirituality of the group...
STONECIPHER: We've got great products. But we absolutely had too much success. I had a customer tell me, "Your salesman treated us like a Third World country, and we have a higher per capita income than the U.S., and I don't like that." I don't blame him. We're changing that...