Word: salesman
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...Palfrey's good pals, a "prize-winning car salesman" and professional oboist, is lined up for the car buying seminar...
...refer all interested readers to the brilliantly remastered version of Hitchcock's 1954 thriller Rear Window, in which a bored and bedridden Jimmy Stewart (in a full-leg cast after a run-in with a racecar) witnesses what he thinks is a murder: his salesman neighbor's wife disappears the night that the salesman makes several early-morning trips out of the apartment, carrying a suitcase, in the rain. The movie itself is shot entirely from Stewart's vantage-point at his rear window and is a fascinating exploration of voyeurism, inference and 1950s haute couture...
...course, if I spot a costume jewelry salesman or meet a man like Jimmy Stewart, it may be a different story...
...Egoyan followed Next of Kin with the disturbing Family Viewing, a 1987 film about the psychological struggle between Stan, a video equipment salesman, and his son, Van. Stan has driven both Van's mother and grandmother out of the house, and now he is symbolically eradicating their memory by taping over home videos-a practice that Van is painfully opposed...
While discussions of race have been aggressively squelched in the courtroom, the troubled legacies of Rodney King and Abner Louima haunt the trial of four white New York City police officers accused of murdering African trinket salesman Amadou Diallo. The police say they mistook Diallo's black wallet, which he apparently proffered in an outstretched hand, for a gun, and believing their lives were in danger, the police fired their weapons 41 times...