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David Mamet has emerged as the most revered contemporary American playwright due to his ability to create a distinct language for his characters. Listen to the way the real estate salesmen talk about the “leads” in Glengarry Glenross or how Fox talks about setting up a meeting in Speed-the-Plow. The characters grasp at words as if they were life preservers, futilely attempting to keep their heads above water, eventually drowning in their desperation. To Mamet, the world is a cruel joke; some people are in on it and some aren?...
...timing may not be perfect. Look at what's happening with the energy policy. Just as gas prices are falling like a stone - 30 cents since mid-May - the White House sends out its energy-plan salesmen. And just as the rebate checks are going out, the American people may not be in the mood to play along with the Administration's hopes for quick and conspicuous consumption of the tax rebate. In a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll released Monday, only 17 percent plan to spend the money. Some 47 percent say they'll pay off bills, 32 percent will save...
...investors bet a lot of money on analysts whose opinions turned out to be rubbish. Now we're in the head-shaking phase, where everyone's gotten wise and the hidden-agenda company analysts of the late '90s are down in financial history with snake-oil salesmen. Should anyone have been too surprised...
...each stage, the most persuasive advocates were movie idols and rock stars?salesmen, by example, of countless beguiling or corrosive fashions. If they could make cocaine and tattoos fashionable, perhaps they could goad the masses toward physical and spiritual enlightenment. Today yoga is practiced by so many stars with whom audiences are on a first-name basis?Madonna, Julia, Meg, Ricky, Michelle, Gwyneth, Sting?that it would be shorter work to list the actors who don't assume the asana. (James Gandolfini? We're just guessing...
...half a dozen specialists and get half a dozen conflicting opinions. "Well, of course," Dr. Toby Brown, a Manassas, Virginia, radiologist says impatiently, "it's not as if medicine is a science." Hence the appeal of alternative medicine: aromatherapy, homeopathy, ginkgo. Proponents may be crusading scientists or snake-oil salesmen, but either way, their pitch falls on eager ears: each year Americans spend some $27 billion on so-called complementary medicine. "One lesson of the alternative health-care movement," McCall warns, "is that the public is not going to wait for doctors to get it together...