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pitcher John Rocker. I wonder what GM John Scherholtz's salesman schtick...
...Like the Internet cameras that film cubicles and street intersections nonstop, Wiseman creates unblinking images--exhaustive, exhausting, narration-free cinema-verite documentaries. The 4-hr. 8-min. Belfast lingers over daily life in a small blue-collar town: marriages, doctors' exams, factories, a read-through of Death of a Salesman. While Wiseman's vignettes can be mesmeric, they're too often simply tedious and excessive. And it smacks of self-congratulation for the public-TV gentry to do these working-class commoners the mere favor of acknowledging--as the Salesman reference suggests--that attention must be paid...
...hold himself above the fray, Gore didn't have to. He'll get plenty of opportunity to look statesmanlike Thursday night behind President Clinton during the State of the Union address. The administration's record is the centerpiece of Gore's campaign, and that record has no finer salesman than President Clinton during his annual policy address. Gore simply has to show up and reap the dividend...
While Case plays the statesman and AOL president Robert Pittman deploys the substantial charm of a born salesman, the next few levels of management harbor a cadre of "killers and cutthroats," says a former analyst intimately familiar with the company. AOL's laid-back latte drinkers took early retirement ("I just didn't want to sit in on any more screaming matches," says one), while the real sharks, believing themselves invulnerable because of their vast wealth, continued to swim the halls in Dulles. The piped-in music may be the Eagles, and the furnishings may look as if the Ikea...
...German salesman became fleetingly wealthy when a bank computer increased his balance by more than $6 million...