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...funny, too. Much of Act One builds toward a nice, relaxing evening meal for Jack, who lost his job as a part-time party favor salesman. As Kate prepares supper, Blanche struggles with her asthma and tries not to be dependent upon the family which took her in, Laurie exploits her questionable medical condition to avoid helping, Nora dreams of her audition for the new musical extravaganza Abracadabra!, Stanley tries to conceal losing his own job that day and Eugene fantasizes about Nora and her recent "developments." The pressure explodes in an absurd yet well-orchestrated dinner scene over boiled...
...Davis is a used cars salesman...
That analysis will be comforting to those who want to view the market's punishment as temporary. In New York City, salesman Raheel Nazami owns up to losing $50,000 on paper last week but adds, "This is nothing. It will go back up." Tom Jacobs, a New Jersey executive, agrees. "While they got beat up pretty badly this week, I believe they'll come back by the end of the year." At 61, he sees no reason to rethink retirement plans. "I've been through this before, and I believe that the place to be is in the stock...
...every turn there Has been a betrayal. We Can't let our guard down. --Carlos Rivero, 34, a car salesman, outside the Miami house...
...Fitzgerald goes for the unambivalent version - a Reagan who is cheerfully, dangerously clueless, a simpleton actor who performs superbly when standing on chalk marks and reading from a script, the GOP's Prince Myshkin. Fitzgerald takes her title from the cliche in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman": "Willy [Loman] was a salesman... He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine." Ronnie Reagan is Willy Loman done up as a sparkling success instead of a dismal burnout. (It might be said, by the way, that Franklin Roosevelt also conducted...