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...Lemmon was the broken-willed heart of David Mamet's classic sucked-dry-salesmen ensemble talker "Glengarry Glen Ross" (a performance that not only gave the picture its due dose of pathos but inspired a "Simpsons" character, the recurring sad-sack salesman "Gil"). In his later years, television gave Lemmon his senior-circuit thespianic showcase, appearing in acclaimed versions of "Inherit the Wind" and "12 Angry Men" with George C. Scott, and winning an Emmy as the dying professor in the 2000 TV adaptation of the best seller "Tuesdays with Morrie...
...citizens of Baltimore. He's theirs. Always was, for 21 years. It's an anomaly in today's sporting culture that a player could span his entire Hall of Fame career in one city. Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Roger Clemens - all traveling salesmen by comparison. We cheer uniforms, not players (who can keep track?) these days, but Ripken made it easy to be an Orioles...
...stumbled through the icefall, was so far out of his comfort zone that he began to speculate on which of those fates might await him. For a moment he flashed on all those cliches about what blind people are supposed to do--become piano tuners or pencil salesmen--and thought maybe they were stereotypes for good reason. Blind people certainly shouldn't be out here, wandering through an ever changing ice field, measuring the distance over a 1,000-ft.-deep crevasse with climbing poles and then leaping, literally, over and into the unknown...
...critics call it a dressed-up sweatshop; proponents call it good business. "It gives us the flexibility to move people where they're needed," says John Stropki, executive vice president. Indeed, during the recession of the early 1980s, when sales tanked 50%, the company turned 30 factory workers into salesmen to drum up business...
...stumbled through the icefall, was so far out of his comfort zone that he began to speculate on which of those fates might await him. For a moment he flashed on all those clichEs about what blind people are supposed to do?become piano tuners or pencil salesmen?and thought maybe they were stereotypes for good reason. Blind people certainly shouldn't be out here, wandering through an ever changing ice field, measuring the distance over a 1,000-ft.-deep crevasse with climbing poles and then leaping, literally, over and into the unknown...