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...tirelessly to cure him. Nicholson's tale is not so much a novel as a collection of loosely related fiction riffs, but it does not suffer at all from its lack of connective tissue. His imaginings are always peculiar, frequently droll, and on several occasions funny, about car freaks, salesmen, book critics, sex and the alarming sort who acquire the complete works of novelists. Worth collecting; first editions available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: One Of Each | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

Every Monday morning, five salesmen for an agricultural chemicals firm meet for breakfast at a bustling diner called Clarette's. A few weeks ago, as they were were finishing up their last cups of coffee, talk shifted to politics. Four of the five said they had voted for Foley in the past. This year none of them plan to. Ironically, the Speaker's effectiveness was one of the reasons why. "It's basically pork. Even though we live here, it just isn't right," said Bob Johnston, 37. They also think of Capitol Hill as a place where no favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Foley: The Price of Pork | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

...even the best value on wheels doesn't sell in Japan without a lot of legwork. Toyota, the top domestic automaker, fields about 50,000 door-to-door car salesmen outside of its 5,574 showrooms. In the face of such competition, the Big Three now have plans to do some marketing of their own. Ford is the most ambitious, aiming to capture 5% of the Japanese market by the end of the decade by importing 100,000 cars and manufacturing 100,000 more in Mazda's factories in Japan. (Ford is Mazda's main shareholder, with a 24.5% stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tokyo Head Twister: Look Who's Buying U.S. Cars! | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...room where they remain throughout the one-act play. They are in a boarding house in Buckingham, England, waiting for their next "job." The way they are dressed in suit pants, their shirts untucked, their ties and coats laying around the room, they could be two travelling salesmen anywhere in the world. As the play continues we come to realize that they are not pedalling a good, but a service. And that service is killing. And we see them while they wait...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Intense, Satiric 'Waiter' Carried By Strong Acting | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

...efforts, non-Bangladeshi Americans have had a fresh stereotype to associate with Hossain's homeland ever since late-night king David Letterman's roving camera strayed into K&L's Rock America souvenir store, hard by his Times Square studio, and discovered Mujibur and Sirajul, painfully good-natured immigrant salesmen whom Letterman's Late Show has transformed into the nation's newest pair of unlikely semistars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: The Amos 'n' Sirajul Flap | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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