| 单词 | salesman |
| 例句 | “Half the town is liquor stores to keep the Marines happy. The other half is covered with mobile home salesmen to cheat the young enlisted men with families out of their pitiful salaries.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Judging by his rumpled suit, he was a salesman. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z If you are a salesman, in other words, there is a tremendous temptation to try to spot the sucker. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He shook Mr. Trepid’s hand, but, noticing the red rash on Mr. Trepid’s hand and wrist, the salesman cut short the handshake. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z This is no different from what Ian Ayres found when he did his study of the way black men were treated by car salesmen in Chicago. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We had the poor salesman guy going crazy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar, and she married him in another state where it’s legal to get married before eighth grade. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z One interpretation of Ayres’s study is that these car salesmen simply made a blanket decision that women and blacks are lay-downs. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Great salesman, considering he’s blatantly lying about a bill in the clip. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I’m not a salesman, I’m not selling Progress to the Abos. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Two muscular young men in undershirts, probably salesmen from the store, were gasping next to it. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After the surgery, Moore moved to Seattle, became an oyster salesman, and went on with his life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Let’s see,” the animal salesman said, groping for a pen and pad of paper. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z After his graduation from Yale he and his wife had moved to Odessa, where Bush worked as a salesman and clerk for an oil field supply company. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z White tracked down the insurance salesman who had originally sold Roan the policy in 1921. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Buck’s mother had run off with a vacuum-cleaner salesman a few years before. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He also knew that car salesmen didn’t interest journalists. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m getting sick of selling stuff. Jeez, my father’s starting to call me ‘my son, the salesman.’ The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As a gift, the salesman said, the store would give me a narrow leather belt with my initial “L” on it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The salesman dumped the stones back into the pouch. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z People subscribed to them because the salesmen were so pitiful. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Probably not,” Mr. Trepid said, smiling heartily at the salesman. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Trepid had a hundred questions, but he wasn’t going to ask them of this salesman. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “I think you’ll find we can give you the best deal,” the salesman said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z In this strange room, which smells faintly of traveling salesmen, the clapping sounds like encouragement, even though it’s only praise for the lasagna that has come out of the oven. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z And then he smiles: a salesman, Fuad had told him many times before he left Muscat, is naked in America without his smile. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z In addition, White brought on an experienced deep-cover operative who looked more like an insurance salesman—perhaps because it was his former profession. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Dad’s first rescue job was a boatload of software salesmen from Orlando who were stranded all the way out at Ninemile Bank. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I learned there were children whose fathers were drunks, whose mothers were “bad,” whose sisters had run away with traveling salesmen, whose brothers had landed in prison. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z With the salesman urging me on, I got another shirt, and a hat, and new shoes— the kind that were just coming into hipster style; dark orange colored, with paper-thin soles and knob style toes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They made a perfectly complementary pair, Thorne a skillful salesman who hawked the securities transactions contrived by the introverted Alfred. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was mostly deserted, but a few persistent salesmen waited for customers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Hale had promised to pay an extra premium on such a policy, and the salesman had responded, “Well, we might write him for $10,000.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You’d think those salesmen would wait until nine before bothering people.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I knew I couldn’t take on this giant water-bed salesman alone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The salesman glanced out the window, as if looking for Mr. Trepid’s Porsche. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Or consider the automobile dealership: a salesman does his best to obscure the car’s base price under a mountain of add-ons and incentives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He handed the salesman the money—all of it—without even bothering to count. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A ragtag group helps her: the owner of a local hotel, a fertilizer salesman, a woman who sells children’s clothing, a hardware store operator. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The salesman wrote my name on a form, and the Rose- land as where I worked, and Ella’s address as where I lived. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “They didn’t even ask me into the house. They made me stand out on the steps like a vacuum salesman.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Some know a great deal about cars and will be offended by a salesman who adopts a patronizing tone. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The salesman had told Hale that because he wasn’t Roan’s relative, he could become his beneficiary only if he were his creditor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And the manufacturers and importers and salesmen down on their knees, repenting in public, conical paper hats like dunce hats on their heads, shame printed on them in red. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “We couldn’t let a goat go for that,” the salesman protested. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Across the street was Stew “Bright Eyes” Fiddler, an industrial parts salesman with a taste for bourbon and barmaids, and his wife, Mizzi, whose hair changed color like a mood ring. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Also, if anyone has information regarding the whereabouts of the fireworks salesman, a five-dollar reward is being offered by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In America that means I was a salesman. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The salesman, who was close to Hale, admitted that he had no proof of the debt and that he had simply desired his commission. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “It’s alpaca,” I said again, like I was suddenly some kind of alpaca salesman or something. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The gathering outside the Tribune included businessmen, clerks, traveling salesmen, stenographers, police officers, and at least one barber. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Marisol’s dad was a salesman and her mom was a pilot. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “It is highly irregular,” he told me right off the bat when I showed up for work after school, “to hire a twelve-year-old as a tie salesman.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z He was a salesman at the big discount office furniture store off 108th Street. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Been saving my pocket money all summer for this,” Ron told Harry as they and Hermione strolled through the salesmen, buying souvenirs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Dad always has an excuse: traffic, last-minute customers at the pharmacy who’ve run out of their prescriptions and can’t wait until morning, a salesman stopping by with drug samples. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Aureliano Segundo was so enthusiastic over the progress of his daughter that from a traveling salesman he bought a six-volume English encyclopedia with many color prints which Meme read in her spare time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A salesman, a young Jew, met me when I came in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The salesman stared at the stones and cleared his throat. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It was late afternoon, and the driver of the car, a middle-aged traveling salesman who shall here be known as Mr. Bell, was tired. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Real estate salesmen know more people than computer hackers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was only a salesman, not the inventor, and it was necessary that we make it known that the meaning of his death was greater than the incident or the object that caused it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Four months after Cabot found work as a satellite TV salesman, Alma Ember decided to move back in with her grandmother. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z In a Massachusetts community the town officials purchased a weed killer from a zealous chemical salesman, unaware that it contained arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z An ordinary salesman like Mr. Broks would never be granted a permit. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The fourteen men ultimately elected consisted of half a dozen farmers, a pharmacist, a nursery manager, an airport employee, a well driller, two salesmen, a machinist, and the manager of Ray’s Bowling Alley. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He was one of the best salesmen, but the showroom let him go. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was too embarrassing—barber’s sons, if they hustled, maybe got to be IBM salesmen, but writers? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The mob included craftsmen and laborers, salesmen and tradesmen, mothers and schoolchildren. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On a slip of paper the salesman scribbled a price and then briefly, almost furtively, showed it to Rick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Trepid kept his hand on the door as he turned to greet the salesman. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z At this point the priest left and I told the story about the travelling salesman who arrived at five o’clock in the morning at Marseilles when the mistral was blowing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z And of course, the salesmen, whether it be kids selling candy or dudes moving DVDs, one for five, three for ten. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “What are you driving now?” the salesman asked. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z One time, the salesman who was trying to sell Pap£ a car brought out an expensive Buick. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The salesman “ate it up,” and soon Perry, stripped of his denim trousers, was trying on a gloomy suit that the clerk considered “ideal for an informal ceremony.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only after the salesman had wrapped it that she’d remembered the rule about giving paper on the first anniversary. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I feel like a used-car salesman, and Mrs. Brazzi is looking at me like I am one. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I don’t think the car salesmen in that study meant to discriminate against black men. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She asked the salesman to put everything into the canvas bag, except the jackknife. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d had the foresight to park it three blocks away so that the salesmen wouldn’t see his battered old car. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “He could be an insurance salesman and still be the same type of guy. I can see him coming home from work, kicking a door down, and shouting, ‘Stand by for an insurance salesman!’ The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sir,” the animal salesman said, “our asking price is already a thousand dollars under book. Check your Sidney’s; I’ll hang on. I want you to see for yourself, sir, that our price is fair.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I’ll take the whole lot,” he told the salesman, “provided you sell me that suitcase as well.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Car salesmen even have a particular word to describe the customers who pay the sticker price. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The town fathers of a thousand communities lend willing ears to the chemical salesman and the eager contractors who will rid the roadsides of “brush” — for a price. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He is a good salesman, and when his bosses gave him some managerial duties, he proved to be good at those as well. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Right away, it was clear that he was no kind of salesman. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z But, no, his customer was merely experiencing what Johnson called the Solemn Moment—a phenomenon familiar to insurance salesmen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z We met the numbers runners, gamblers, lottery takers and whiskey salesmen not only in the loud streets but in our orderly living room as well. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As Mr. Trepid approached, the salesman noticed the angry rash creeping up Mr. Trepid’s neck and across his face, and the salesman took a step backward. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z There, Borgenicht asked for a salesman who spoke German, since his English was almost nonexistent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “You know,” Grover mumbled, “I bet Hades doesn’t have trouble with door-to-door salesmen.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She says it in a way that makes her sound like a smarmy used-car salesman with oil-slicked hair. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Mr. Pickwell had brought home a down-and-out shoe salesman in sore need of sympathy and a good meal. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Dasch lied again, telling them he was a salesman for an importer and exporter of goods that had secretly benefited Nazi Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Junior, he’s the guy who was filling in for Mr. K—he said I was a really good salesman. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Bob Golomb is a great car salesman because he is very good, in the moment, at intuiting the intentions and needs and emotions of his customers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He had recently made a decision with his medical school that becoming a doctor was not in the cards for him, and he moved to the Bronx, where he worked as a pharmaceutical salesman. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “You tell us the deal you want to make,” the salesman said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The salesmen bought me perfume and invited me to lunch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re mostly cops and insurance salesmen who bet on football games and smoke disgusting cigars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He told us he almost felt sorry for the software salesmen when he handed them the bill, which didn’t even include the hefty fine from the park service for trashing the sea grass. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Extolling its many virtues, the salesman noted that this was El Jefe’s favorite car. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He grinned that salesman grin and clapped Bobby Gene on the shoulder. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The animal salesman said, “The distinct advantage of a goat is that it can be taught to butt anyone who tries to steal it.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We set up a scene with Moms and Derek playing like Derek was a customer and Mom was a used car salesman and they were bargaining over a car. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t remember the salesman’s having mentioned anything about a flight feature. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As the salesman recalled it, Hale had independently pushed for the policy, saying, “Hells bells, that’s just like spearing fish in a keg.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Married his high school sweetheart, became a salesman like his father. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Door-to-door salesmen no longer harass me, ” Hannibal said. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They were started by door-to-door salesmen, short-order cooks, orphans, and dropouts, by eternal optimists looking for a piece of the next big thing. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z The insurance salesman dropped by the houses of various suspects, under the pretense of hawking policies. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Since starting in the car business more than a decade ago, Golomb has sold, on average, about twenty cars a month, which is more than double what the average car salesman sells. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Describe this boot to me, then! What kind of a pitiful salesman are you? No wonder you’re starved for customers.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Will this be a cash deal?” the salesman asked. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Moine’s argument is that what separates a great salesman from an average one is the number and quality of answers they have to the objections commonly raised by potential clients. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Local car salesmen wanted to roll over and play dead when one of the Langley fellas pulled into the lot, fearing a barrage of nonsensical and unanswerable technical questions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He never did find out from the car salesman, but he bought the car anyway. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He had worked briefly as an automotive parts salesman, a janitor, a car wash attendant, and a short-order cook at the local A&W fast-food franchise. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The salesman was saying something about the quality of the gold and diamonds, and then, “Does the gentleman wish to know the price?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Only two jobs listed, one for an appliance salesman and some woman who wants her house painted. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll wear mine,” John told the salesman, a tiny round bald man with spectacles which quickly dropped to the end of his nose as he laced up the skates. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z But like the funeral director and the car salesman and the life- insurance company, the real-estate agent has also seen her advantage eroded by the Internet. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He said he was not just a car, truck, and recreational vehicle salesman—he was selling the American dream. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As you would expect from a great salesman, he has a kind of natural exuberance. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The salesman returned with four sets of keys. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I hungered for relief and, as a salesman of insurance to many young black girls, I found it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His contempt for the “salesman type” of scientist was unbounded. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Well, my dad is. He sells lamps. And when I grow up I’m going to be a salesman, too. I’m going to sell hangers.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Even when dressed in a stiff suit, like a door-to-door salesman, he seemed to have sprung from a mythic age. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Why not take a few pounds of ‘happys’?” advised the salesman. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “We'll have the other vehicles and your Volkswagen delivered,” the salesman said, and with the paperwork and payment taken care of, they left. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z He could always become a crystal salesman again. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For by now he is aware, in stores, of cashiers smirking at his parents’ accents, and of salesmen who prefer to direct their conversation to Gogol, as though his parents were either incompetent or deaf. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One day that September, the undercover operative who was pretending to be an insurance salesman stopped at a filling station in Fairfax and struck up a conversation with a woman working there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I could see my mother going in Spaulding's and asking the salesman a million dopy questions--and here I was getting the ax again. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z And, as agreed, I was put to work, as a salesman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We had, for instance, some civil servants, some nurses, clerical workers, salesmen from the department stores. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the case of the car salesmen, their decision to quote an outrageously high price to women and blacks alienated people who might otherwise have bought a car. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Rose screaming that a salesman was at least a dignified occupation, but she would never have a barber for a husband. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z As Mr. Trepid drove away, the salesman called to someone in the back room. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “Mint, male, young, well,” the salesman informed him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I’m thinking, I really am a good salesman. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Doreen had met the man online, a car salesman who turned out to be nice but married. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He took a job as a tarpaulin salesman, but he was miserable. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Beneath the officers were the street-level salesmen known as foot soldiers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The salesman noticed the tiny blisters on Mr. Trepid’s face and neck. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He could make conversation with a brick wall—part of his salesman DNA. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Mr. Trepid smiled as he carefully undid the pouch and poured the gems into the salesman’s hand. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The salesman figured that if a man wanted to buy a new Cadillac, he could have food all over himself if he wanted. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Not long afterward, the onetime insurance salesman opened a business in downtown Fairfax, peddling bona fide policies. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The salesman leans in to see who I’m talking to, getting so close he bumps into my camera. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z There was no way, he said, that he could be replaced by a computer, because salesmen need that human touch, that twinkle in the eye. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The salesman fussed over us the second we walked in. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The salesman who had waited on him before met him just inside the door. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The salesman bustled around and lined up six rings on a velvet tray. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir,” a nattily dressed new animal salesman said to him chattily as he stood gaping with a sort of glazed, meek need at the displays. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z And he was astonishingly successful, a salesman without peer. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But he is also a great salesman because he understands when to put the brakes on that process: when to consciously resist a particular kind of snap judgment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z For us, there were very few jobs as clerks, policemen, bus drivers, or insurance salesmen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sophia’s husband had gotten out of the military, and he was some sort of salesman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the curse of being a tie salesman. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s say we put the ostrich on a thirty-month contract,” the salesman said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He had noticed a big black goat standing squarely in the center of its cage; he moved that way and the salesman accompanied him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The ding of the door’s bell brought the salesman from the back of the store. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Pilon stresses that, contrary to the heartwarming myth tucked into Monopoly boxes for decades, the game was not invented during the Depression by an unemployed salesman named Charles Darrow. It's game time for the history of Monopoly 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He recently retired, after forty-five years as a salesman. The Last Robot-Proof Job in America? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Long before a salesman in Maryland hung the price tag from the branches of this fully formed fir in 2021, its life began, as all trees’ lives do, as a tiny seed. The journey from seed to harvested Christmas tree is a long, winding road 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Like the salesmen out of “Glengarry Glen Ross” who followed the maxim “always be closing,” Mr. Campbell veered from show to show one morning this winter trying to make a match. Theater Ticket Agencies Are Flexing More Broadway Muscle This Season 2011-04-18T14:26:01Z He smiles, the strangest salesman, flogging snail entrails and disabled homicide to those who may remember him best as the kooky kid in that Michael J Fox film. Crispin Glover: Back to the dissected snails 2011-02-09T21:46:00Z “The cabdriver wasn’t an actor, he was a rug salesman that the production designer knew,” Mr. Clark said. ‘Kids,’ Then and Now 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z So brace yourself for Winnebago Man, a mobile-home salesman turning the air blue as he continually fluffs his lines while making a series of 1980s corporate videos. Found Footage festival: 'Stupid videos might be the international language' 2012-06-18T17:50:49Z So yes, both are hustlers, both are salesman. Matthew McConaughey on Singing Along to Carly Rae Jepsen 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “Are You Being Served?” was a broad sendup of life in a British department store, based largely on Mr. Lloyd’s experiences as a salesman at a Piccadilly shop. Jeremy Lloyd, Creator of British TV Comedies, Dies at 84 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Lorre’s new CBS comedy is a love story, you see— one that involves a well-meaning, lonely sock salesman pursuing a relationship a hard-working woman who is uninterested in him. With "Bob Hearts Abishola" and "Sunnyside," sitcoms are showcasing the immigrant's story 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The guy who trained him was an Oscar-caliber salesman who was constantly cussing, chugging energy drinks and snarling about “bagging and tagging” their next potential customer. Is Hollywood ready for the brilliant weirdness of Lakeith Stanfield? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z He was a salesman at Harrods when Ingrid Bergman, who appeared with him in a West End play, spotted him at the London department store. Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-born actor in British and Bollywood fare, dies at 86 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z My ancestors lived in a time when a regional salesman could build a business that competed with the largest corporations. Rediscovering my family's history through cornmeal dumplings 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z The elder Theroux was a leather salesman, a kind man who never swore, believed in forgiveness and declined to read any of his son’s books. Paul Theroux’s New Book Ranges From Literature to Landscapes, With Surprising Cheer 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The large supporting cast are largely forgettable, save the aforementioned Brody and the fabulous Oyelowo, because they get the best dialogue and deliver it smoothly, like silver-tongued salesmen. "See How They Run" is a comic whodunit that falls flat except for the dead guy 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “Compared to your typical, flashy uptown crook, Carney looked like, well, a furniture salesman,” and he puts a lot of faith in that appearance. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z His father, also Charles, was a silk ribbon salesman. Charles Simmons, Novelist and Critic, Dies at 92 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Brown gravitated to music at a young age, though neither his father, a hardware salesman, nor his mother, an English teacher, shared his passion. 'The Bridges of Madison County' crosses into lush terrains, composer promises 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z It does to Ron Woods, a retired insurance salesman from Walnut Creek, Calif. Perspective | Are you getting the best deal when you book through an online travel agency? 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller’s classic drama about a traveling salesman, his wife and their two sons. L.A. theater openings, May 17-24: 'Andre & Dorine' and more 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But these depictions of him as a huckster and a salesman… they were different. Alison Klayman: ‘Bannon’s into the Great Man theory of history and he’s certain he’s one of those great men’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z But be forewarned: The bartender is a good salesman, so you might find yourself ordering a seafood platter if you’re not careful. Her D.C. has changed. But some of the best remains As depressing as this may sound, Kenner hopes that “Doubt” will be received by audiences as more than a muckraking investigation of snake oil salesmen. ‘Food, Inc.’ director’s new project shines light on climate-change deniers 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z I made pals with a constant patron at the Vineyard's bar, a retired farm insurance salesman called Jim who shared with me the gossip of everyone who walked into the room. An author struggling to write her novel finds a story novel among the grapes 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z This time, the master salesman was selling himself. Bill Clegg’s Debut Novel Is ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z In the 1930s, Harry J. Hoenselaar was just another ham salesman in Detroit trying to find an edge. The Sweet Success of the Spiral-Cut Ham 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Raised by his mother with three siblings, Gilbert left school early and worked as a pest exterminator, brush salesman, and in a steel mill. Jack Gilbert obituary 2012-11-20T14:17:57Z In his standup comedy and, later, on “The Cosby Show,” Cosby put himself before us just as a man, a person who haggled with used-car salesmen and went to the dentist and so on. Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, James Martin crusades for the humble watercress by working as a street salesman in London's Covent Garden. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z He was also a radio d.j. and a shoe salesman and a stage performer and a jewel thief. The Improbable Life of Ray Hill 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z As an audience, we may think he is crass; at the same time the ideology of the salesman has somehow managed to affect all of us. Noises off: From Salesman to selling out 2012-06-08T11:20:39Z As a traveling salesman, Loren came home only on weekends. At 95, Dick Van Dyke is still the consummate showman. And he’s desperate to get back onstage. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z It was Kane’s writing partner—an ex-shoe salesman named Bob Finger—who suggested the look we now associate with Batman: the cowled mask and scalloped cape. Holy Bat Trivia!: Top 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Batman 2012-07-13T12:00:05Z Damon stars as Steve Butler, a salesman traveling the country on behalf of a bland behemoth of an energy corporation. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2012-12-31T20:48:08Z Mum and Dad bought a leather pouffe from a very eager salesman. Family life 2013-01-05T00:06:02Z Smart salesman, I thought, until, turning it over, I read what he’d printed on the back: “Call me,” with his personal number. Modern Love: Being the Older Woman 2010-07-22T21:24:00Z Science fiction is the home genre of dystopian literature, and any knowledgeable student of the form can lay out dystopias for you like a car salesman can talk up his floor models: Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Her father, Junius G. Oldham, a World War I veteran and a salesman for the United States Gypsum Corporation, came from a Democratic family; his father had been a friend of William Jennings Bryan. Joyce Appleby, Historian of Capitalism and American Identity, Is Dead at 87 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Each Friday, her father, a salesman, took her out for ice cream and then to temple. Dr. Ruth made ‘orgasm’ a household word. But her real passion? Dollhouses. 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Despite its signature gothic wit and unsettling atmosphere — the image of a car lot surveyed by salesmen howling like wolves particularly lingers — "Night Vale" remains oddly short on character depth. 'Welcome to Night Vale' podcast becomes an equally weird, haunted yet humorous novel 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z For one thing, we learn that his first wife died in a mysterious fire; for another, he’s a born salesman, suave and unctuous, with an eye for other women. Murderous Husbands, Flapper-Era Gun Molls and Korean Assassins: The Best Winter Thrillers 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Foucheux was part of an exquisite “Ah, Wilderness!” at Arena, and he played the rambling salesman Erie Smith in “Hughie” for Washington Stage Guild. Rick Foucheux paints a possible stage exit with an intimate ‘King Lear’ 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z I felt bad for the salesmen; they just seemed itching to throw open creamy boxes of shoes at someone's feet. On the Runway Blog: Lessons in Shopping Discounts 2012-11-23T21:26:11Z Paul comes from Allerton, a typically suburban area of Liverpool, where his father still works as a cotton salesman. Roof climbing with Paul McCartney – a classic interview from the archives 2012-06-18T15:33:47Z In “Shelter,” “Gardens” and the earlier “Salesman,” about a group of Irish American Bible salesmen, he offered an unheard-of level of closeness. With a new film, Albert Maysles maintains his empathy, and longevity 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The Fuller Brush salesman with his 50s bowtie and matching smile hangs next to the art historian with her tensed fingertips and brittle mask. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z In some ways, being a salesman was good preparation for being a writer. ‘Friday Black’ Uses Fantasy and Blistering Satire to Skewer Racism and Consumer Culture 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z As salesmen, we’re the tip of the spear on whether this thing works. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z The Bangladeshi souvenir salesmen became Letterman’s roving correspondents. David Letterman's Top 10 Sidekicks and Guest Stars 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z But I’m not this Bay Area snake-oil salesman saying “The future will be like this!” Holly Herndon’s right-now sound 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z And they're more likely to purchase something if they think the salesman is a real person, like the new family of above-average citizens down the block. The Joneses Review: Keeping Up With Them Could Kill You 2010-04-16T01:10:00Z But through a combination of persistence, gregariousness and charm, he was for many years Watkins’s top salesman in the region comprising Oregon, Washington, California and Idaho. Bill Porter, an Exceptional Salesman Who Inspired a Film, Dies at 81 2013-12-10T01:38:58Z Burroughs was 35 and a struggling salesman of pencil sharpeners when he began “Princess of Mars.” ?John Carter,? Based on ?Princess of Mars? 2012-03-04T23:25:48Z His stepfather retired as a salesman at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan. Daniela Suarez, Sam Schatz 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Transported by the records he heard on the jukebox in his mother's cafe, he was elated when a record salesman suggested that they go to hear Count Basie's swing band. John Bunch obituary 2010-05-03T19:59:00Z While working as a salesman at Nordstrom in Palo Alto, Calif., co-workers who saw him painting told his boss. Artexpo New York offers affordable quality art 2011-03-24T16:31:20Z Mr. Mamet created a cast of salesmen who keep themselves alive through their relentless, aggressive talk. Theater Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ by David Mamet, With Al Pacino 2012-12-09T03:00:00Z As Erie natters on in an eager, fitful string of clichés, bringing to mind the sort of garrulous salesman you’d normally cross the street to avoid, Mr. Whitaker quietly breaks your heart. Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Starting With Something Simple As a salesman at Stereo Exchange, a bastion of audio geekery in Manhattan, Michael Toto has watched the upheavals in the music and audio industries from the ground level. The New Audio Geeks 2013-07-24T22:18:15Z But he faces payback from the working class when a used car salesman plots his daughter's kidnapping - and finds a willing coconspirator among Wong's staff. Johnnie To collaborator delivers HK thriller 2011-03-10T14:16:04Z I asked a salesman how things were going. On the Runway Blog: The Circle Game 2011-12-30T22:35:42Z Her Oscar-winner’s aura is heralded and ridiculed given the subjects of the films she presents, from a traveling globes salesman to the producer of a musical about co-ops. Documentary Now! An ode to the funniest spoof on television 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Her father was an insurance salesman, her mother sang in church. Annette Bening: ‘Women don’t have to do everything’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z He emerged from it a canny marketer and salesman. Richard Steiner, Producer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 69 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z In 1842, a prosperous clothing salesman named Lazarus Morgenthau recorded memories of his impoverished, nomadic childhood in the territories that later became modern-day Germany. Robert Morgenthau Donates Great-Grandfather’s Diary to Jewish Archive 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Darrow, a Philadelphia salesman, did patent the game in 1935, but he hadn’t invented it. ‘The Monopolists’: the history behind a great board game 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z In this case, husband and wife — Ken, an insurance salesman, and Nancy — are in a car, driving to church. Review: ‘Man From Nebraska’ Delivers a Midlife Crisis of Faith 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z After that failed, he became a salesman and later a manager for building materials companies. Capt. Tom Moore, UK veteran who walked for NHS, dies at 100 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “Let’s say you are a strong server, you are great with people, you are a great salesman,” he said. The Restaurant Service Charge Isn’t Going Anywhere 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Hancock displays the hardscrabble lot of the travelling salesman, with phone calls to the home office made at parking-lot pay phones and lonely nights in shabby hotels. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Brent is now a traveling salesman pursuing his rock 'n' roll dreams with his band Foregone Conclusion. Ricky Gervais to return to 'The Office' for Netflix movie 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z I ought to be able to get in there, and if I grin – I was a good salesman – I ought to be able to pick off one or two assignments. Stephen Cannell obituary 2010-10-19T17:17:00Z His father was a cigarette salesman, his mother a homemaker. Mike Hodges, Director Acclaimed for ‘Get Carter,’ Dies at 90 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The little gold earring felt like it was flashing ember-red, as if to say, “LOOK AT ME!!! Over here! Your son is a tool! You raised a future Zen-garden salesman who collects artisanal bongs!” Here's What Ryan Reynolds Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z With glassy eyes, she described her father, an insurance salesman who died in January, as kind and cautious, someone who wanted above all else for things to be harmonious. Ellen DeGeneres Is Not as Nice as You Think 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z When the salesman asked if he wanted to call his bank about financing, Domino smiled and said, "I am the bank." Rock 'n' Roll Legend Fats Domino Dies at 89 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z A conductor performing her music is like a salesman “selling a car without an engine.” One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z He said he loathed the “small-town mentality” of Stockport and felt increasingly uncomfortable with the conservative politics of his father, a successful electronics salesman who admired Margaret Thatcher. Specializing in Secrets and Their Dear Cost 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z Still, it's a setup that takes mere seconds to get up and running, leaving more time to devote to this week's case involving the murder of a flashy car salesman. TV highlights 01/08/2012 2012-07-31T19:30:02Z His father was an insurance salesman; his mother refinished antiques. Bob Elliott, of Bob and Ray Comedy Fame, Dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z He’s an artist trapped in a salesman’s body and it was his objective in life to make sure his children could do whatever they wanted to do.” In Film and Music, the Galkin Brothers Are on Their Own Together 2010-07-14T20:09:00Z Seen on Broadway in 2013, the musical tells of Edward Bloom, an Alabama-based traveling salesman prone to relating improbable yarns about his own past. Review | ‘Big Fish’ looks for the truth in a father-son relationship 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Both films refuse to soften the harsher personal truths faced by aging professional salesmen of erotic fantasy. | 'To Die Like a Man': The Anguish of Identity 2011-04-07T20:55:54Z “I write all my raps while driving,” says Porter, who works days as a salesman and freelance visual artist. Rap duo Sleep Steady’s fans are wide-awake 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Then the cheerfully amoral Randall brings his skills as a silver-tongued salesman and his sexual magnetism, first practised selling TV sets and hi-fi equipment, to bear on peddling patent medicines. Love & Other Drugs ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z “Your picture just keeps showing up,” Jeff Tate, 50, a mutual fund salesman, tells Flowers. He’s raised and spent millions running against Marjorie Taylor Greene 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z But the musical salesman population declined dramatically in the decades after World War II, when large grocery stores replaced street markets and city governments stopped including stables in their urban planning. At the Folklife Festival, arabbers peddle fruit with a musical flourish I’ve written before about how Bob Odenkirk’s performance in the show draws the viewer in—a con man, professional liar and consummate salesman who believes, more often than not, in his own confabulations. “Better Call Saul” keeps getting better: Romance keeps Jimmy’s dark side in check — but his Cinnabon future still looms ahead 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Paulson says she sometimes feels like “a travelling salesman”, which suits her line of work. Sarah Paulson: ‘If I’m terrified, I feel compelled to do it’ 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Born into a secular Jewish family in Stepney, east London, Arbeid was one of four children of a salesman father who showed no particular interest in art. Dan Arbeid obituary 2010-11-22T18:24:00Z Charla, who works in marketing, says that Brad, a salesman, feels pretty much the same way. Sex: 'Whatever you're doing, double it' 2012-11-10T00:05:13Z He is the youngest son of six; his father was a tools salesman, his mother ran a nursery. Mad man 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z Gauguin followed her to Copenhagen in November 1884 to live in her relatives’ house, while supporting himself as a traveling salesman. Gauguin, Obsessive Chameleon 2010-10-01T14:33:00Z From where he stands, hypocrisy among those in power, dubbed “snake oil salesman,” has reached an almost unfathomable level. Spike Lee’s movie about a black cop infiltrating the KKK is a subtweet of Donald Trump 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z He played a shoe salesman on “The Corner” and the drug supplier Wilkie Collins on the NBC drama “Homicide: Life on the Street.” Robert F. Chew, Actor on ‘The Wire,’ Dies at 52 2013-01-19T04:32:48Z While Crudup was developing the role, he was reminded of his dad, who was a salesman peddling anything people would buy. From "Morning Show" to "Hello Tomorrow!" Billy Crudup reveals what his antiheroes are really selling 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Whereupon the English salesman who had been assisting the duo whispered to the gal pal, “A bit tight across the bum, don’t you think?” Circa Now: Shopping Etiquette: For Customers and Sales Workers, Advice on How Not to Be Rude 2014-01-24T21:08:05Z It’s almost touching to discover that Hollywood’s most ruthless salesman, all on his own, is trying to launch the “national conversation” about media violence that President Obama promised we would have after Sandy Hook. Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z Between acting jobs and writing screenplays he also worked as a cemetery plot salesman and night school maths tutor. Richard Kiel, Jaws actor from James Bond, dead at 74 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z I hate to sound like a real-estate salesman, but this hidden gem is about three things: location, location and … you know. 3 great little places to stay in Portland, Oregon 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z That includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, a close friend, who he sadly notes was set to play the ceramic tile salesman from 1986’s “Drinking in America” before his death in 2014. Return of the greatest, living monologuist. Only this time, he’s not on stage. 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “Maybe I ought to try being a shoe salesman or bookkeeper or something.” 46 Years After His Death, the Producer Charles Stepney Shines Again 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z “You have to be a salesman until you’re salesman of the month for two months in a row,” she remembers him saying. The Darcars family drama: Cut out of the auto business, a daughter sues 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Andrew Offutt earned a good living as an insurance salesman; he drove a Mercedes and bought the biggest house in the poorest of towns in Kentucky. A legacy of 400 pulp porno novels: Chris Offutt's revealing 'My Father, the Pornographer' 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Hanks' upcoming movies include Tom Tykwer's "A Hologram for the King," based on the Dave Eggers novel about an American salesman in Saudi Arabia, and an untitled Cold War thriller directed by Steven Spielberg. Tom Hanks, Lily Tomlin to get Kennedy Center Honors 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z As such, the popular image of the survivalist is changing, from wild-eyed cave dweller in camouflage fatigues, hoarding canned goods, to the mild-mannered executive or lawyer or insurance salesman who lives next door. The Most Vexing Unanswered Questions of 2017 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z When the supply dried up, he opened a high-fashion men's store, where he established his reputation as a natural salesman and storyteller. Clothier who dressed Elvis Presley dies in Tenn. 2012-11-15T16:10:12Z Stephen Hawking, the most revered scientist since Einstein, is a formidable mathematician and a formidable salesman. Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God 2010-09-07T17:30:00Z He started off as a door-to-door salesman and worked his way up through Schwinn bikes, the Chicago manufacturer. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers – review 2013-01-30T10:07:03Z “Snake-oil salesmen is the best description for the type of people he’s busting,” said the entrepreneur Jason Wong, 22, another fan. On the Internet, No One Knows You’re Not Rich. Except This Account. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z He is the vacuum-cleaner salesman who in fact specialises in making people “disappear” if they want to evade the law: another role which taps into Forster’s flair for quietly charismatic and also intimidating omnicompetence. Robert Forster: a coolly charismatic character actor with an intensely sympathetic air 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z “At this point, it’s like asking a vacuum-cleaner salesman, ‘What if you get as big as Apple?’ The Stealth Success of John Mulaney 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Having left the service, he works as a car salesman and then gets involved in a beef-smuggling racket with a local band of Indians. Canada by Richard Ford - review 2012-05-25T09:00:01Z He sounded like a salesman, but Hill, 61, of Damascus in Montgomery County, doesn’t work at the shop. Hot wheels: Today’s adult tricycles are low, sleek, speedy, and finding a larger fan base 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The salesman, Jesse, was explaining how various safety features of specialized clothing could keep me from dying, and I was thinking, “Yeah, O.K., but do these go over or under my pant legs?” Modern Love: Being the Older Woman 2010-07-22T21:24:00Z But it’s nice to see car salesmen restored to their rightful pace as contemporary villains. Under the Dome has already got me thinking about busting out 2013-07-10T02:49:26Z Tyler Stonehouse, a salesman at Whitlock Motors and sometime employee of the Cody steakhouse, said that “there’s not an easier guy to talk to.” Kanye, Out West 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z His father struggled as a salesman during the Depression but eventually rose to become an executive at the Hudson Pulp and Paper Company. Julian Barry, Who Made Lenny Bruce Into ‘Lenny,’ Dies at 92 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z He has an inspirational story of rising from poor tea salesman to province leader. John Oliver explains Trump's support of Modi, India's 'temporary symbol of hate' 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The apotheosis of noir, the film features Stanwyck as a seductress who ensnares an insurance salesman in a plot to kill her husband. Last Chance: Barbara Stanwyck Festival at Film Forum 2013-12-26T21:36:07Z Damon stars as a salesman persuading inhabitants of a small town to sell a big energy firm the right to extract gas from beneath their farmland. Damon's fracking drama gets run at Berlin prize 2013-02-08T17:31:04Z The play, called Damascus, portrayed a Scottish salesman slowly realising the extent of his own cultural ignorance. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: David Greig on making a musical to rival Matilda 2013-06-18T07:00:00Z Newey, a retired salesman, is a native of Utah’s Ogden area. A family raised $20,000 in tips for their 89-year-old pizza deliveryman 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Brawny and gregarious, Mr. Dennehy was often called on to play an Everyman or an authority figure: athletes, sheriffs, bartenders, salesmen and fathers. Brian Dennehy, Tony Award-Winning Actor, Dies at 81 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z You always wonder about Willy’s perverse pride, trying to cling to this old salesman’s job when his carefree neighbor, Charley, offers him work. Review | Willy Loman still dreams big in Miller’s ‘Salesman’ at Ford’s 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z A comment you hear over and over, from vendors to salesmen, is how much they learned from Fred. Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z He’s like the world’s most insistent salesman, uninhibitedly obsequious and overeager to please, who’s selling nothing but the milk of human kindness. “Keeping Up with the Joneses” and the Marketing of Cinematic Charisma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z And a salesman at Truemart Fabrics in Chelsea said that it’s just as hard to get silks and cotton prints because there isn’t as much production in the cutting rooms. Forget NFTs. What about the HTF (Hard to Find)? 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Hughes grew up the son of a paper salesman and a schoolteacher in Hickory, N.C. Chris Hughes: From savior to villain at the New Republic 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Willy Loman has reached the end of the line: An aging salesman who roams New England, he thinks the key to success is being liked, but he is more often laughed at behind his back. A deeply relevant 'Death of a Salesman' emerges 2012-03-16T05:31:08Z He’s an endearingly relentless steamroller of a salesman. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Terminator Genisys: ‘I’ll be taking a beating or two’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The suit was offered as part of three-for-the-price-of-one deal; buy it alone, a game salesman named Mike Marcou said, and it would be 65 percent off the ticketed price. Front Row: Newly Combined Men’s Wearhouse/ Jos. A. Bank Expands 2014-03-19T22:26:10Z While the salesman fetches something, Jimmy picks an orange shirt and red tie off the shelves. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Don't Worry Saul, It's All Good, Man 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z “Everyone knows Bernard,” said Jean Pierre Boissiere, who 10 years ago got his job as a wine salesman for the House of Burgundy through Mr. Ros. Generation B: A Restaurateur Who Moonlights as a Headhunter 2010-04-29T23:23:00Z On a cash register tucked discreetly toward the back of the store, a stubbled salesman and seven-year company veteran was ringing up one of these visitors. Critical Shopper: Low Tide and Lower Ambitions 2011-04-26T21:16:42Z His 1984 play “Glengarry Glen Ross,” two acts of profane one-upmanship among desperate real-estate salesmen, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z He would reach Miami two days later, hopping 24 rides from drivers that included a pastor, a gun-toting salesman and a mom-driven station wagon with six clamoring kids in the back. Thumbs up for three new books that capture hitchhiking’s adventurous spirit 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The salesman asks if he would like to look like Mary Tyler Moore. Television Review: ‘The New Normal’ and ‘Guys With Kids’ Begin on NBC 2012-09-10T21:56:20Z Otherwise the story is a departure: "Fargo" stars Martin Freeman as a meek Minnesota insurance salesman whose life takes a dramatic turn when he crosses paths with a murderous drifter played by Billy Bob Thornton. Golden Globes 2015: 'Fargo' wins for miniseries or TV movie 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z She liked to joke about her attractiveness to “macaroni salesmen.” The Secrets of Vera Caspary, the Woman Who Wrote "Laura" 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z A short stint as a vacuum cleaner salesman followed in which he toted his wares around the desert communities of southern California. Captain Beefheart obituary: rock's father of invention 2010-12-19T00:08:01Z It describes the final hours of Willy, a traveling salesman flummoxed by the downward trajectory of his life and his livelihood. Review: ‘Death of a Salesman,’ Diluted by Too Many Experiments 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z He is a Christian insurance salesman after all. The Bachelorette Watch: Sixteen Bachelors, Three Departures, One Trip to Dollywood 2012-05-29T12:00:44Z And so these door-to-door salesmen started to become a feature of the American landscape. From "Morning Show" to "Hello Tomorrow!" Billy Crudup reveals what his antiheroes are really selling 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z His father is a salesman for the wholesale trade in the Bronx store of Tolnoy Lumber, a supplier of plywood, masonry and other building materials. Alicia Hernandez-Roulet, Matthew Steinhart 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Tyson learned to ride horses on a small farm owned by his father, an insurance salesman and polo enthusiast who had emigrated from England in 1906. Ian Tyson, Revered Canadian Folk Singer, Dies at 89 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z What is a salesman but a fellow with a dollar and a dream? In Remembrance of Erratic Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z “See this?” she said, holding up a bulky sneaker for a salesman. | Jeanine Pirro: A Deal? Tell It to the Judge 2010-10-15T21:20:00Z IF you were to stumble midweek into the Alejandro Ingelmo boutique in SoHo, you might wonder about the salesman manning the store. | Up Close: The Shoe Designer Alejandro Ingelmo - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-07T20:00:54Z And he did not feel like a weary salesman. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z After a stint in London working for Magnum Photos as an agency salesman, he returned to the U.S., where he worked for famed photographer Ruth Bernhard in San Francisco as her printer. Kenna’s ‘Memories and Meditations’: the world through a lens 2012-12-06T21:10:11Z Outside fashion, Jeffrey may best be known for being parodied on “Saturday Night Live” in sketches involving two cool salesmen insulting their less cool customers. Saying Goodbye to Jeffrey 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z “I used to say to some of the wine salesmen, ‘Pick your favorite five reds and five whites,’ and I took the common denominators.” After 43 Years, the Wine Sentinel of the River Café Stands Down 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z In 1960s Harlem, Ray Carney, a furniture salesman, is trying to lead a mostly upright life — until he’s drawn into a heist that goes awry. 20 New Works of Fiction to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z And though it would be wholly unfair and negligent to deem them all Islamophobes, they made Trump president-elect despite knowing of the hate he peddled stridently like an unscrupulous salesman. Muslim in America under President Trump: We will endure this 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z The number is impressive and also excessive, which is one way of describing Davis, the jolly inventor of a modern bulletproof vest and a born salesman. ‘2nd Chance’ Review: Just Shoot Me 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z An elderly, solitary woman convinces herself that a random encyclopedia salesman is her dead son and a mystery woman who regularly calls is her daughter. Review | In ‘The Heart and Other Viscera,’ Félix J. Palma turns mundane moments into spellbinding tales 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z In five months of looking, I’ve discovered that sound suppression is not really on the radar of the average window salesman. Do your windows let in too much noise? Here’s a primer on sound damping. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Those questions aren’t answered in the film, but one presumes the offscreen negotiations with the prospective customers turned the filmmakers into salesmen themselves — and turned what they documented into a reality fiction. Does Cinéma Vérité Exist? Watch These 2 Movies to Find Out 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Kramer is an answer to all that glumness, as far as the board is concerned, a very Hollywood figure, a showman and salesman and story teller. A Big Hollywood Premiere That Was a Long Time Coming 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Her father was a door-to-door salesman and quite possibly a numbers runner, Professor Klotman’s daughter said. Phyllis R. Klotman, Scholar and Archivist of African-American Cinema, Dies at 90 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z His father, William, a manufacturer and salesman of novelty items, was an immigrant from Russia. Gene Wilder Dies at 83; Star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and ‘Young Frankenstein’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Performed by A. P., a traveling salesman and inveterate impresario, his wife, Sara, and her cousin Maybelle, the tunes would prove indestructible. Review: Generations of Music by the Carter Family, Documented 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Having sold Fuller Brush products door to door in my youth, I would have welcomed even more detail about the rise and fall of the encyclopedia salesman. ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z They make him less a rapper than a party-starter, the hip-hop salesman who eggs on the crowd while fading into the shadows. Pitbull Moves Beyond Hip-Hop and Into the Unknown on ‘Climate Change’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z This used car salesman admits what the car offers is a story that isn’t reality, but possibly does send a message – cheaper cars tell someone you care less, more expensive ones say you care more. 'The Americans' Recap: Secrets in the Basement 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z But just as they’re about to show off their machine to the crowds, a slick-talking salesman at another booth pulls the rug out from under them. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: A Showdown at Comdex 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z He wasn’t the most charismatic salesman — a shy architecture professor with a then-limited command of English — but the company needed someone to show that the puzzle was solvable. He Invented the Rubik’s Cube. He’s Still Learning From It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z If the roles compete against each other, our money is on this one to net him a nomination; here Hanks plays a desperate American salesman waiting an eternity to meet a Saudi Arabian billionaire. And the Oscar may go to … 40 key movies in contention for 2016 awards 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Producers said Thursday that the Oscar winner will play the role of Shelly Levene in a revival the marks the 30th anniversary of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the backbiting world of salesmen. Al Pacino coming back to Broadway this fall 2012-06-14T19:11:10Z As he models them in the mirror, he asks the salesman, “Are you sure I don’t look like Mary Tyler Moore in these?” Television Review: ‘The New Normal’ and ‘Guys With Kids’ Begin on NBC 2012-09-10T21:56:20Z Cave prowled the Ace's stage, gesticulating wildly, a born performer who in another era might have been a traveling preacher or a snake-oil salesman. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds offer fury, comfort, brimstone at Ace Hotel 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z He recalls one day off from his job as a kimono salesman, seeing the Zep concert film “The Song Remains The Same,” and being mesmerized by the power of Page’s playing. ‘Mr. Jimmy’ Review: Trying for That Perfect Page Re-Creation 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Van Alden trudged through his new life as the Frank Grimes of the Chicago door-to-door salesman community, selling aquavit on the side and finding a novel use for his company’s irons. Taking It Personal: A Look Back at Boardwalk Empire Season Three 2012-12-05T15:27:34Z His real life – professional diver turned model turned music video dancer turned black market salesman turned actor – has been far more varied than his film career. Jason Statham: our last action hero (50 million Facebook fans can't be wrong) 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z No one wants to talk to a good salesman. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z It’s a long way to come for a college dropout and failed door-to-door coupon salesman from Lake Stevens, Wash. Chris Pratt Is a Superhero in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z His father retired as a copy machine salesman for Savin in Fresno. Millicent Souris, Vincent Anderson 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z But a few times in our movie we have a crusty farmer questioning the salesman and I don't think that actually happens that often. Matt Damon's Promised Land 2013-04-19T06:46:32Z He's a willing salesman, donning a boxing robe and gloves for a press event. Review: Spurlock starts an original series on Hulu 2011-08-17T04:11:08Z You've spoken a lot about your dad as a salesman of many things and you're also a descendant of a congressman from North Carolina. From "Morning Show" to "Hello Tomorrow!" Billy Crudup reveals what his antiheroes are really selling 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z That’s why I always believed that sounding like a fast-talking used-car salesman was worth it if it made people chuckle, even at your expense. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z There is no greater asset to a salesman or a politician than an audience that wants to believe. President Trump’s Prime-Time Pandemic 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z If you believe, as Nichols said in 2012, that “now everyone in America is a salesman,” you may even feel a shiver of recognition. Review: In a New ‘Salesman,’ the Lomans Look Like All of Us 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z He also was a cemetery plot salesman and bouncer before he was offered $70 to play a barroom brawler in a 1960 episode of the TV series “Klondike.” Richard Kiel, best remembered as the James Bond villain Jaws, dies at 74 Through a stroke of sheer coincidence, Thomas and Craig now occupy the same job as salesmen at a floor vacuum manufacturer. "Dicks: The Musical" puts two narcissist bros under a joyous, filthy spotlight 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Even for the best salesmen among us, and Jackman is surely that, the territory is changing fast. Review: Even With Hugh Jackman, ‘The Music Man’ Goes Flat 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Forget trying to emulate the actors on soap operas set in affluent faraway suburbs — I didn't even sound as polished as the bit-playing carpenters or salesmen of Atlanta on "Designing Women." The all of “y’all”: On finally embracing my voice, country twang and everything 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z The closest approximation bore the label “special” instead; when asked why, a salesman just shrugged helplessly. Critical Shopper: At Zara, in Midtown, It?s All a Tribute 2012-03-27T16:38:15Z Some represent numerous lenders, akin to independent insurance salesmen. Monitoring Your Mortgage Broker 2011-01-26T23:00:00Z Nothing in his recent life as a traveling salesman and occasional boulevardier suggested much taste for hearty adventure. An Englishman’s Ill-Fated Quest to Climb the World’s Highest Mountain 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Thing is, his wife and daughter are completely in the dark about his real job; they think he's a boring computer salesman. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Transformers 3" 2011-06-27T22:27:06Z Plus, he seemed a bit too erudite for a mass-market retailer; his style was more sommelier than salesman. Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z A boat salesman in Tampa, Malz voted for Trump in 2016 but has been turned off by his temperament over the past four years. In a year of political anger, undecided voters inspire a special kind of scorn 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z He looked like a puffy George Reeves, right down to the Superman spit curl, and he favored loud, checked sport jackets, normally associated with vacationing appliance salesmen. The Startling Blast of “Rock Around the Clock,” Sixty Years Later 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z It shows the decline of that industry because at the heart of it, there's really no way to achieve upward mobility being a salesman. From "Morning Show" to "Hello Tomorrow!" Billy Crudup reveals what his antiheroes are really selling 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z He has always been the Beach Boys' best salesman, playing hundreds of gigs under the Beach Boys name even as he tussled with Brian Wilson over the right to do so. Original Beach Boys members may reunite 2010-06-21T09:27:00Z The propane salesman boasting that his tanks can wipe out a van of Gypsies is maybe worse than anything Baron Cohen has captured before. Rudy Giuliani, Maria Bakalova and an antisemitic cake: discuss Borat Subsequent Moviefilm with spoilers 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z His father retired as an independent insurance salesman in Kansas City. Caroline Hornbeck, Michael Cleary 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Newspaper salesmen, taxi drivers, chain smokers in the coffee house: All are living on the brink. Walk Through This Exhibition With Dread. You Know Where It Leads. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z I used to do the rounds of the record companies with my songs like a brush salesman. Bubblegum pop: all the young dudes 2010-12-02T22:00:00Z The play charts his faltering path backward — with outbursts of homicidal fury — and forward, from that brief and disastrous tenure as a Park Avenue shoe salesman to his stint in a psychiatric center and beyond. Review: ‘Raw Bacon’ Finds Fearful Poetry in an Iraq War Vet’s Mind 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Two guests from hell drop in on a naive hair tonic salesman named George Betterman, invading his home and threatening to singe the wider social fabric. Review | ‘The Arsonists’ at Woolly dramatizes the modern world on fire 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Teaming up once again with "Terminator" director James Cameron in this remake of a French comedy, Schwarzenegger stars as a spy posing as a mild-mannered computer salesman. 5 best Arnold Schwarzenegger movies 2011-05-26T21:38:08Z And he hasn’t lost his salesman’s bravado, his lawyerly verbosity or his passion for theater, even though his show has faced many challenges, including questions about its financial health. A Producer Seeks a Broadway Comeback, Mired in Offstage Drama 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Scientists routinely rely on the integrity of the work of others in everything they do, to a degree that would be unthinkable, say, in the world of real estate developers, used-car salesmen or politicians. Why march for science? Because the value of social trust — under attack by Trump — is worth fighting for 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z But first, he was just a used-car salesman. The Darcars family drama: Cut out of the auto business, a daughter sues 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z “He’s mostly heard, not seen. Yet he makes a deep emotional mark on the movie. He’s a sweet-potato vendor, a longstanding figure in Mexico City’s populous community of itinerant street salesmen.” What to Read About ‘Green Book’ and the Other Best Picture Nominees 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z A slender man in a white dishdasha sat on a chair, one sandal off, and watched the salesman dart around the store collecting a homeopathic remedy for his diabetes. Don’t squander your layover in Dubai. Fill your bags with spices and gold. 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z In their latest film, Damon plays a corporate salesman who goes to a rural U.S. town to buy or lease land on behalf of a gas company looking to drill for oil. Matt Damon tackles "fracking" issue in the "Promised Land" 2012-12-28T11:06:04Z In 1928 his father, a salesman in a fish market, bartered goldfish for two tickets to the grand opening of a renovated theater in Leicester Square. Roy Ward Baker, Prolific British Filmmaker, Dies at 93 2010-10-08T05:43:00Z Her father was a designer and salesman of dairy facilities for King Construction, a company in New Holland, Pa., that constructs barns and other housing structures for dairy cows and horses. Mollie Van Lieu, Benjamin Kessler 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z The network announced Wednesday that Spader will reprise his guest role as manipulative salesman Robert California when the comedy returns this fall. James Spader hired full-time for 'The Office' 2011-07-06T18:38:08Z His father was a Baptist minister who moonlighted as a vacuum-cleaner salesman. Stan Freberg, Madcap Adman and Satirist, Dies at 88 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Borda, whose mother was a lobbyist and whose father immigrated from Colombia and worked as a salesman, grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens. A Pioneering Orchestra Boss Had ‘Unfinished Business,’ So She Returned 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z She’s an awful criminal, needlessly drawing the suspicions of a patrolman and a used-car salesman before meeting Norman, who seems to see right through her. Psycho at 60: the enduring power of Hitchcock's shocking game-changer 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Then, you've got the dude, the ceramic tile salesman, and he's addicted to despair. "It's been a life-changing experience for me": How a play about drinking helped Andre Royo get sober 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z When the fellowship ran out and the lies on his CV were detected – sure, he had been a salesman, yes he had been a bartender! – he was nearly homeless. Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z But we got a whopper of a puzzle piece last night: the tale of how Don, then a young, smiling fur salesman, met Roger and found his way to Sterling Cooper. Monday morning "Mad Men" 2010-08-30T16:29:00Z “It was a little bit scary,” said Adewumi, who first worked as a dishwasher and an Uber driver upon moving to America and is now a real estate salesman at Douglas Elliman. Nigerian chess prodigy, 12, granted asylum in the United States 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Carr was born and raised around Minneapolis, the son of a clothing salesman father and a schoolteacher mother. Beloved by journalists, David Carr was always looking for the next David Carr. 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Ezra Woods, the salesman on duty, was quite friendly but laid down airtight ground rules: “Please move the clothing by the hanger,” he said, physically demonstrating this, like a flight attendant. 2010-01-12T23:15:00Z Would some of the characters actually be “sad car salesmen”? If Twin Peaks does come back, what would its third season look like? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z To be a mattress salesman over Memorial Day was about being an educator and a therapist, Shaun believed. It’s Memorial Day weekend. One of the mattressiest times of the year. 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z But it was the release of Mr. Scott’s third album, “Astroworld,” in the summer of 2018, that cemented him among the upper echelon of superstar performers — and salesmen. Before the Astroworld Tragedy, Travis Scott’s ‘Raging’ Made Him a Star 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Not bad for the son of a car salesman. Wheel life: the strange power of films set inside cars 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Sandelman pulls on a checkered Balenciaga blazer she bought because it looked like something a used car salesman might wear. | Olivia Sandelman 2011-03-10T14:01:34Z “The salesman may defeat us in the end,” Mr. Cook writes, “but not without a good fight.” Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z A salesman with “Halibut Joe” embroidered on his jacket teased DiGregorio about working in tech: “I was thinking he could work from home!” The Last Robot-Proof Job in America? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The pandemic forced the software salesman to confront his own connection with alcohol after he left New York City for Florida when the lockdown kicked in last spring. Why the hot new alcohol trend is cutting back — or even quitting 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Were they too much for comfort, I asked Johan, a cherubic Belgian salesman with a thin gold ring threaded through the tragus of one ear. At COS, No Need for a Passport 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Arteta's new comedy "Cedar Rapids" tells of a naive insurance salesman's wild weekend at a convention in the big city. A Minute With: director Miguel Arteta at Sundance 2011-01-27T17:42:12Z Two hours after he drove through a “red zone” known for steady violence, three salesmen delivering chickens in the zone were shot and killed in their pickup truck. A Poet's Return Home to Thailand's Violent South 2010-10-20T16:28:00Z Hickey, a traveling salesman and perennial life of the party, doesn’t make his entrance until nearly an hour into show. Review: In an Energized ‘Iceman,’ the Drinks are on Denzel 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Michael Lewis was never a top Wall Street bond salesman, but in “Liar’s Poker” he captured an era. What It Is Actually Like to Be in the Engine Room of the Start-Up Economy 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z He was hired as a salesman by jazz label Fantasy Records in 1955 and, 12 years later, acquired the company from its founders. Cuckoo's Nest producer Zaentz dies 2014-01-06T11:34:31Z “Never burn bridges,” said the showman turned salesman. Seventh Hill’s second act is a new pizzeria in the Palisades 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z He became a Bible salesman, began recording religious songs again and, for the second time, disappeared from the spotlight. Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z The first house was commissioned by a salesman who imported mobile phones from Chile, though most clients are Alteños who sell food at the market and stores throughout the city. High society: El Alto, Bolivia, steps into the spotlight 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z He went on to work as a truck driver, jewelry salesman, dress salesman, dock worker, census taker and reporter for The Bridgeport Post. Richard Belzer, Detective Munch on ‘Law & Order: S.V.U.,’ Dies at 78 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z In the good days, that suited the piano salesmen just fine. For this piano man, the regular crowd no longer shuffles in 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z But they’re notably unsentimental about saying goodbye to the spot where their grandfather, a door-to-door fabric salesman, transformed himself into an art dealer known in the trade as “Mr. Americana” and “the Prince of Prints.” F.D.R. and Andy Warhol All Came for Art. Now the Movers Have Arrived. 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The group portraits of draft classes from that decade look like meetings among prosperous Chrysler salesmen. The Evolution of N.B.A. Draft Fashion 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z He said he tried not to judge Jobs, the shrewd salesman to Wozniak's technical genius, over pocketing the lion's share of profits. Steve Jobs depicted with 'love and respect', say new film's co-stars 2013-01-31T21:07:16Z Said Hank Hill, fictional Texas propane salesman, in 1997: “Look, some people hoist a flag to show they love our country. Well, my lawn is my flag.” There’s a water crisis. Why do we still have lawns? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z In an era shaped by charismatic salesmen like Donald Trump, a cleareyed biography of Barnum would be both enlightening and timely. A Huckster for the Ages 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z A large part of his revenue is used to pay off his material expenses, and because his labor is so demanding, he relies on an outside salesman, who requires commissions. It’s the Economy: What’s a $4,000 Suit Worth? 2012-09-05T03:19:28Z He's a natural and ambitious salesman and seems thrilled with the profit motive so far. TV review: Cuba with Simon Reeve; Inside Guinness World Records 2012-12-11T22:10:01Z He's very smart, but he's also a truly remarkable salesman. Meet the Islamic superheroes 2010-10-23T23:03:00Z Nadler was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household in Brooklyn, the son of a poultry farmer turned auto parts salesman. Do Jewish New Yorkers care about identity politics? Jerry Nadler hopes so. 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z His thriving company made the onetime traveling salesman a wealthy man and employed many, including subsequent generations of the Whitaker clan. What the saga of Chieftain Blue Sparks’s desk has to teach us 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z It's about a pair of glum salesmen travelling to Gothenberg with a suitcase full of monster masks and laughter bags. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Darren, the narrator, tells us: “I am a black man on a mission. No, I am a black salesman on a mission.” Review | Mateo Askaripour’s ‘Black Buck’ is an irresistible comic novel about the tenacity of racism in corporate America 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z He's actually a salesman who lives in a gated community patrolled by armed guards, but at night he puts on a uniform and goes out into the red zone to save lives. TV review: Toughest Place to Be a ? Paramedic 2011-02-14T08:00:01Z At the age of 17, after an idyllic summer holiday in Paris, Moustaki obtained his father's permission to move there, working as a door-to-door salesman of poetry books. Georges Moustaki obituary 2013-05-24T21:03:52Z He described his father as a “salesman with brains” who encouraged his children’s artistic interests. Geoffrey Holder, painter, actor, dancer and Tony-winning director, dies at 84 The retired salesman, from the Somerset Levels, did not consider he needed the operation but agreed to the treatment. NHS faces legal bill as dozens suffer problems after private eye operations 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Sparks, concerned that he might be a one-novel wonder, kept the salesman job for another 15 months after selling “The Notebook.” Nicholas Sparks hits a tear-soaked milestone: 20 years of sentimental love stories 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z A group of African-American cleaning-products salesmen recently passed through the town near me, going door to door. Thomas McGuane on Small-Town America 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z After finding work as an encyclopedia salesman, he discovered his niche in hair product sales — and boom. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘What Would Diplo Do?’ and ‘The Guest Book’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z He's a salesman to the core, and the biggest booster of the Dillon Panthers, lobbying for a bigger stadium and a Jumbotron ... while the school can't even seem to find chalk for the blackboards. A bittersweet farewell to "Friday Night Lights" 2011-07-15T17:10:00Z His father was then scratching a living as a slot-machine salesman. Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights 2011-07-05T20:30:03Z He played a brash salesman with an affection for polyester plaid suits on the TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z “There’s only one thing I want more time for, and that’s painting,” said Mr. Kratz, whose greatest skill as a salesman is appearing mostly to be unlike a salesman. A Celebrity Party Where Andy Warhol Would Have Fit Right In 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Scott Sr was a door-to-door salesman, flogging fridge-freezers in the Scottish Highlands, and his son paid attention when he went into his routine. 'I don’t want a publicist': Dougray Scott on film, fame and his father's war stories 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z There’s no question that he’s a salesman at heart, and he tends to think everything is the best and the greatest. After a tumultuous run in the White House, Sean Spicer is ready to talk now 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Her father, Solomon, was a shoe salesman; her mother, the former Ruth Hirsch, a milliner. Roberta Peters, Soprano With a Dramatic Entrance, Dies at 86 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Growing up in Troy, Mich., the son of a salesman and a home economics teacher, Mr. Sloan loved both computers and books, especially the ones “with spaceships and dragons,” he recalled. Robin Sloan, Author and More, and His ’24-Hour Bookstore’ 2012-10-03T21:50:31Z A salesman assured me that the golf line was represented, too, though I couldn’t find it. Critical Shopper: Brooks Brothers Flatiron - Critical Shopper 2011-12-13T21:02:56Z But Mr. Hughes, whose father was a roofing salesman, used these communities to explore issues of class, status and consumerism as well as the tension and attraction between suburb and city in ’80s America. The Teen Streets of John Hughes’s Chicago 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram offered places to capture and share your memories, but after using them for several years, I feel like someone who was sold a lemon by a used-car salesman. Be the Star of Your Own Snapchat Story 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z He grew up in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, the son of a salesman and a nursing-home recreation director. A ‘Hamilton’ Star’s Story: How Leslie Odom Jr. Became Aaron Burr, Sir 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z No mere salesman, Victor had a true passion for his subjects. Victor Arwas obituary 2010-03-16T18:31:00Z The salesmen glared at you as you walked in. The Vanished Music Stores of New York City’s Forty-Eighth Street 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z “I was always a fairly good salesman, and a fairly bad liar, so if I believed it, I could do a good job of convincing somebody else.” Summer Movies: Mark Wahlberg Joins Will Ferrell in ?The Other Guys? 2010-05-01T03:47:00Z In the first episode, he worries he’s going to get gouged by a replacement window salesman because of the fact that he’s the famous Andrew Dice Clay. With old dirty nursery rhymes and a new series, Andrew Dice Clay returns 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z "He was a great salesman, and the Hollywood of today is so much about being a salesman and being able to sell yourself as a brand," she explained. "Hitchcock" trains lens on the love story of Alfred and Alma 2012-11-20T15:04:24Z Jaymukh, who is sixty-two, learned to cook while working decades ago as a door-to-door fabric salesman. The Indian Filmmaker Who Made His Dad’s Village Cooking a YouTube Sensation 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In 1984, Dustin Hoffman starred as the doomed salesman on Broadway. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Rethinking the retail experience at a temporary shop at 45 Grand Street, it jettisoned the salesman behind the counter. Warby Parker?s Pop-Up Store Offers Eyeglass Frames 2012-01-04T19:02:47Z The other salesmen and townspeople are also racially diverse. Which Show Is Good, Clean Fun: ‘Rocky Horror’ or ‘The Music Man’? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z It was astonishing: a convention centre filled with families, salesmen and thousands of weapons. Photographer Zed Nelson's best shot 2010-09-01T21:30:00Z Its décor revolves around an admirable collection of neon signs donated by beer salesmen; small wire crawfish traps hang from wooden beams. Where Crawfish Are Boiled, Fried and Celebrated 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z At a marble supply store, Nicol says she thinks Italian marble is the best, but she purrs when a salesman hands her a tile of pink onyx that was quarried closer by. ‘Real Housewives’ in Greece, Israel and Canada 2013-06-06T12:00:01Z His father is a long-term-care policy salesman in the White Plains office of the New York Life Insurance Company. Emily Nhaissi, Victor Shelden 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Annoyed, our lady sets down the phone, whips up a Tassimo coffee and slurps smugly as insulation-blab is blabbed, before suggesting that the salesman calls back tomorrow. The new Tassimo advert 2012-12-01T00:05:50Z “You can be old, you can be ugly, you can be fat, smelly, you can have an STD, you can be broke,” Lord says in his breathless salesman’s patter. Review | In ‘Frankissstein,’ Jeanette Winterson brings something zany and intellectual ALIVE! 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z As Georgia Brown noted in her Village Voice review, “In the trade’s lexicon, the magic verb is to close. When Aaronow” — the sad-sack salesman — “complains he can’t close ‘em anymore, he’s confessing impotence.” ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ at 30: Men Talking 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z This week the man rematerialises as a cab driver in New York, picking up a forlorn salesman called Salim who has just been stiffed at a meeting. American Gods recap: season one, episode three – the man with fire in his eyes 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z They star in a depressing, and depressingly long, film as two unemployed, middle-aged salesmen who fluke their way into internship positions at the internet giant. The Internship – review 2013-07-05T09:01:03Z Mr. Washington stars as Hickey, the traveling salesman who defies the regulars at Harry Hope’s flophouse to face up to their dissipated lives. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Joe, like Don, is handsome, suave and moodily enigmatic, a salesman who pitches his product with passionate intensity. On ‘Halt and Catch Fire,’ It’s Imitation vs. Invention 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Except that this scenario was touched with magic: dancing salesmen, glamorous lady shoppers on pin-thin heels and the products — Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, say, or Daz laundry detergent — transformed into handbags. Fashion Review: Anya Hindmarch’s Supermarket Sweep 2014-02-18T13:47:30Z When it is over, Wittstock, the daughter of a salesman father and a swim coach mother, will become Her Serene Highness, Princess Charlene of Monaco. The quiet royal wedding in Monaco 2011-06-23T06:33:42Z The last piece that started to make it come together in my mind was I met a genetically modified seed salesman who was also a farmer in Woodward, Iowa. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Ramin Bahrani Goes Big 2013-04-22T17:01:09Z The ad campaign was followed up by a nationwide network of traveling salesmen who visited potential buyers, signed them to a contract, collected the money and delivered the product. Emily Dickinson, British Abolitionism and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z In this case, though, his name is Norman Drexel, and instead of working as a Los Angeles television writer and producer, he’s a Los Angeles urinal salesman. Review: ‘Fish in the Dark,’ Larry David’s Antic Broadway Debut 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “Seventies. Into the eighties,” said Mr. Farris, who has a salesman’s chatty ebullience. The Annals of Flannel 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The entrepreneur Luke Saunders started the company after years as a traveling salesman in the Midwest, where he said his only eating options were fast-food chains. A Vending Machine With Healthy Options 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z His father, a salesman, moved the family to the Bronx when Philip was 11. Phil Stern, Hollywood and War Photographer, Dies at 95 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Also named Alberto, he is an encyclopedia salesman who lives in a fugue-like state, fretting that he will “fritter away the future” while lost in feelings of apathy. Review | In ‘The Heart and Other Viscera,’ Félix J. Palma turns mundane moments into spellbinding tales 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z In a hilarious sequence Randall attends Pfizer's boot camp, where slick travelling salesmen are indoctrinated in the justification of their profession. Love & Other Drugs ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z I cornered our salesman, the kind and helpful David Sim, and asked him as delicately as possible, “Is Calvin Klein being designed primarily for the Asian market now?” Critical Shopper | Calvin Klein: Critical Shopper: What Comes Between Brooke and Her Calvin Kleins? China. 2010-03-24T17:28:00Z Hirst is the son of a used car salesman, which might explain his fascination with wealth. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z This is a daft story which, if it were true, would only be fit for a Channel 5 documentary about a disreputable Kevlar salesman exploiting billionaires with personality disorders. David Mitchell on Brits as Hollywood superheroes 2011-02-06T00:05:59Z He sold those characters like a salesman with nonstop charm and his foot in your door, on your neck, up your butt. Remembering Tony Curtis: The Best of Everything 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z "It is an odd thing for an artist to sculpt something and then be a salesman." Terrence Malick's long-awaited return splits Cannes 2011-05-16T12:27:46Z He says he’s a traveling salesman, but soon he’s so smitten with Polly that — being an excellent cook — he takes a job there. Review | Laura Lippman’s ‘Sunburn’ is classic noir, with no shortage of sex and violence 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z No matter how he phrases his denial, Mr. Foster sounds about as convincing a used-car salesman cynically peddling a clunker. Review: ‘The Program,’ a Docudrama on the Fall of Lance Armstrong 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z His father gave his blessing, with one caveat: “Don’t be just a car salesman. Go out there and be a Henry Ford.” The Darcars family drama: Cut out of the auto business, a daughter sues 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z And Mike, who looks to be about 30, is no hotshot salesman in the making. Review: A ‘Short Stay,’ but Long Stuck in a Rut 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Rather, as Azaria repeated more than once on our "Salon Talks" episode, he doesn't like being an over-the-top salesman for his projects. Hank Azaria: "For Mets fans, the bad news is there's no games. The good news is there's no games" 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z They are scrupulously thorough, these women, as you might expect of a door-to-door salesman in another era. Tube Tops and Teddy Bears 2010-04-23T15:37:00Z The REI salesman who loaded me up with panniers, insulated clothing and a repair kit pointedly tells me, “You are not prepared.” In biking the Natchez Trace, she was traveling through Southern history 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Lee’s post-Olympic resume includes stints as a motivational speaker, jump rope champion, online jump rope salesman, and trainer for Olympians. We made a sport 2012-08-19T13:00:00Z He's not a decent guy at the moment, even by the standards of antidepressant salesmen in Cleveland. "Love and Other Drugs": Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway get naked 2010-11-23T20:37:00Z But lifeless is not the first word that comes to mind while watching director Daniel Sullivan's fresh look at two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate salesmen. Review: Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross' crackles 2012-12-10T02:37:10Z Take "Rainmaker," a song in which he explores our timeless susceptibility to conmen and snake-oil salesmen — people who prey on our sense of desperation and moral failings. With "Letter to You," Bruce Springsteen reminds us, brilliantly, that we're all on borrowed time 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z “Like used car salesmen, there were some bad apples.” 44 Islands and 42 Bridges: A Florida Keys Road Trip 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z He taught himself how to play the piano, the accordion, and trumpet, according to Mr. Davidson, whose father, a wholesale shoe salesman, married Mr. Powell’s mother, Hilda, a hairdresser, when Mr. Powell was 12. Chasing the Scent of a Brooklyn Fragrance Lover 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Starring the Tony-nominated Denzel Washington as a traveling salesman haunted by death, the revival of Eugene O’Neill’s classic shutters its saloon. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z They weren’t the first to mock infomercials and shouting salesmen on television, and their embrace of scatological excess follows in the footsteps of countless others. Tim and Eric Figure Out How to Do the Wrong Thing, Perfectly 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z So I'm basically playing my own imaginary friend, and I'm playing what the kid thinks he'll be in 20 years' time, which is a mid-level insurance salesman in a cheap suit. Chris O'Dowd: from The IT Crowd to Hollywood 2012-05-18T22:01:08Z A former model and car salesman, he assumed a role that Sean Connery had made famous after the first five Bond movies. 50 Years Later, This Bond Film Should Finally Get Its Due 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Tableware salesmen must have scratched a symbol on the door that means “easy mark,” like a hobo sign. Restaurant Review: Gabriel Kreuther in Midtown 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The lovers’ equivalent of Brokeback Mountain turns out to be a cheap motel in Waterloo, Iowa; the Christmas snow heaped up outside and a suspicious salesman in the room next door. Cate Blanchett: ‘I used to be very socially awkward’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z It has been disappointing to see the therapy profession undermined by various snake-oil salesmen who still seem to think mental health work can be like the Wild West. Netflix's pole dance therapy film "Strip Down, Rise Up" exploits trauma & is fixated on male gaze 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z His fate is to meet the main character in the second story of the film, Finnish salesman Wikstrom, who buys a restaurant in the capital where he gives Khaled a job and a bed. Syrian films bring tears and smiles to Berlin Film Festival 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z We got a new mattress a couple years ago and the salesman threw in two fancy gel pillows as a bonus. Samantha Irby Knows How to Trick You Into Thinking She’s Cool 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z The company aggressively woos artists and institutions with the strategy and tenacity, some say, of a car salesman. The piano: Keys of the future 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z These pitch sessions are desultory affairs - a salesman Andrew is not - and Joyce doesn't help matters by hovering and carrying on in ways that scarcely help her son's cause. Review: The shtick doesn't stick in 'Guilt Trip' 2012-12-18T17:01:06Z This led my charcuterie salesman to believe that I myself was dead. Need to Find Me? Ask My Ham Man 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z A: After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about — bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man — while voraciously reading novels. George Pelecanos unwraps ‘The Deuce,’ his HBO show about the ’70s porn scene 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Waititi debuted a short video last year that showed the brawny but dim superhero sharing a house with a computer salesman in Australia and trying to craft emails to Captain America and Iron Man. Humorous 'Guardians' set Marvel on new path for superhero movies 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z When it is over, Ms. Wittstock, the daughter of a salesman father and a swim coach mother, will become Her Serene Highness, Princess Charlene of Monaco. The Quiet Royal Wedding 2011-06-22T18:47:22Z But Parsons was also a great salesman, filling gardening magazines with enticing advertisements that dangled azaleas, camellias and maples like paradisiacal carrots before the gardening public. How America’s frenzy for Japanese plants brought beauties — and a mega-weed 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The action begins in 1954, when Kroc, an Illinois salesman of multi-spindle milkshake mixers, lugs the heavy device from town to town and from restaurant to restaurant in the hope of drumming up business. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z With his highflying dunks, Jordan led his Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships and became a worldwide salesman for such products as Gatorade, McDonald’s and, of course, Nike’s Air Jordan basketball shoes. Perspective | The NBA is a big deal, but it wasn’t always that way 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z His father retired in May as a salesman in Spokane, Wash., for Safeco Insurance. Rebecca Savage, Brandon Adams 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The salesman pointed to the beautiful seams that bound the back of my friend’s coat, details that, I appreciated, wouldn’t be visible at night. Visit the New Celine. Or Is It the New Old Celine? 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z And these, in particular, of Roger first meeting Don when Don was a pushy fur salesman ready to do anything for a shot at the Madison Avenue life were especially hard to stomach. 'Mad Men' Watch: Lost Weekend 2010-08-30T15:25:00Z Alec Guinness stars as a vacuum cleaner salesman tapped as a liaison for British intelligence. 3 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The town has the atmosphere of a bustling holiday resort, with salesmen touting holy souvenirs on the streets. 'A holy Blackpool' 2010-03-30T20:00:00Z His father, Angelo, an insurance salesman and the son of Italian immigrants, taught him to work hard and treat others well. Stand-up guy: Mark Twain Prize recipient Jay Leno returns to his comedy roots Hanks plays a desperate American salesman waiting an eternity to meet a Saudi Arabian billionaire. Tribeca film festival: Tom Hanks and Michael Shannon in 2016 lineup 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Stanhope got his comedy start here, working as a telephone salesman, a skinny little dude with a mullet haircut, selling worthless products by the sheer audacity of his pitch. Stand-up comedian Doug Stanhope laughs in the face of self-destruction 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Finally she burst out, “I can’t do this! I can’t do this — I’m having a panic attack!” the salesmen later recalled. It’s Memorial Day weekend. One of the mattressiest times of the year. 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z He’s big for his age and taller than her, and with his swagger and belly bulging over his belt, you can already see the used car salesman he might one day become. ‘Licorice Pizza’ Review: California Dreaming and Scheming 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Even tinkers and traveling salesmen tended to be familiar to their customers because they returned to the same routes. Design: Company Logos Aim for the Personal Touch 2011-06-13T08:00:06Z Early on, he worked for a traveling salesman and as a stock clerk for an overstock book firm. George Braziller, independent publisher who gave early boosts to literary greats, dies at 101 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z It’s about a onetime traveling salesman who spins exaggerated yarns about his colorful past in small-town Alabama. 5 things to do this week in Phinney Ridge 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Making his Broadway debut, DeVito was favored as a slippery furniture salesman in the revival of Arthur Miller’s “The Price.” Tony Awards: Big winners, surprise losers and what it all means for the theater 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z On lolloping car salesman Adam: "Someone put the wrong speed-dial in when they created you, sweetie." The 10 best Apprentice contestants 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z When a used-car salesman says, “I will be honest,” it’s a sure sign he won’t be. Review: A World of Cardsharps and Zoom Dupes in ‘The Future’ 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z I've always seen myself as a travelling salesman and when I started recognising the petrol stations' employees I realised they probably thought the same. Service stations: my secret love affair 2010-05-01T23:35:00Z She stumbled into bagel consulting through her business partner, Frank Mauro, 81, a cheerfully truculent New Yorker who is a veteran salesman — and perhaps the industry’s best-known elder statesman — of bagel-making equipment. The Cradle of Global Bagel Baking? (It’s Not New York) 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z In a few days there will be a new crop – pen salesmen, bartenders, doctors and, naturally, models. Shock! Anger! Joy! Confusion! An American watches Love Island 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Few know much about Darpa — populated by a “procession of nuts, opportunists and salesmen,” Weinberger tells us — but the group helped shape modern life and modern warfare. Paperback Row 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Others have forged ahead and become professors, hearing-aid salesmen, ghostwriters and high school counselors, but do so with the knowledge of what hardships came first: penniless months, janitorial jobs and harrowing journeys across the sea. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees’ couldn’t come at a better time 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z For a wine salesman, Charles Heidsieck led a surprisingly tempestuous life, with dizzying highs and unexpected, harrowing lows. The Year’s Best Wine Books 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z "A salesman on a showroom floor is trying to make as much money off the purchase price as he can," says Philip Reed, the senior consumer advice editor of Edmunds. Common Car-Buying Mistakes 2011-05-09T16:30:00Z The salesmen — that is what they are, really — were unspeakably polite, smiled appropriately, and made a generous offer. This is what a pre-moon Speedmaster watch is worth 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Dr. Neustadt had studied medicine in Austria, but in 1925, after moving to New York, he first worked in a bank and as a shoe salesman. The David Parr House’s Hidden Gem in Cambridge, England 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Because the celebrated coffee pod salesman is not all he seems. How a fake George Clooney sparked a caffeinated legal row 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The dangerous forest outside of town that is home to snarling beasts, a hungry witch and a particularly suspicious traveling salesman. Stormy Fairy Tales 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Lofty Violin, Lowly Ambitions In the aptly named “Thin Ice,” Greg Kinnear plays a Wisconsin insurance salesman who gets mixed up in a mild caper that escalates into murder and blackmail. Movie Review: ?Thin Ice,? With Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup 2012-02-17T00:20:13Z But Ricardo Withers, a salesman in the gift shop explained: “Unlike in beachside or country houses,” where such work is normally found, “we display them as luxury items — design items.” Going to Rio for the Olympics? Squeeze These Places In. 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Yes, Yankovic did acquire his first accordion from a traveling salesman. ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Review: Any Odd? He Beat It. 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z His character, Harry, decides to buy a pricey necklace for his seductive secretary even as his wife hovers nearby — and the maddening salesman, played by Rowan Atkinson, takes forever to wrap the gift. Chris Matthews is America’s greatest champion of ‘Love Actually.’ So we watched it with him. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Unlike Mamet’s salesmen, it’s not afraid to show the sweat. The Root of All Evil: Glengarry Glen Ross and Golden Boy on Broadway 2012-12-11T16:00:50Z Gather all the trades and talents that he displayed onscreen, and you end up with the most curious of amalgams: prince, priest, bank clerk, shrink, dictator, Jedi, vacuum-cleaner salesman, thinker, sailor, soldier, spy. Anthony Lane: Celebrating Alec Guinness’s Centenary, at Film Forum 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z I would hang one if it could ward off Jesus’ traveling salesmen, but it doesn’t. I’m raising my kids atheist in a God-obsessed culture: How I learned to parent godless children 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z His father left the mines to become a door-to-door salesman, selling ladies' fashions from the back of a van. Ronald Carter 2013-05-30T14:09:38Z “Why did the Bible salesman drop dead?” the show asks in its opening moments. | 'Curious & Unusual Deaths': ?Curious & Unusual Deaths? on Discovery Fit & Health 2012-02-16T22:55:02Z In the meantime, BrightFarms started working on a backup plan, and Virginia sent its best salesman — the governor — to woo the company. Why a bright idea for growing food in the city had to move . . . to the country 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z It goes back to my father, who was a door-to-door vacuum salesman. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Rags-to-Riches Life of Kirk Kerkorian 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z One guest, a 38-year-old salesman in a button-down and Movember scruff, ran down the pluses and minuses of his newly acquired Pax vaporizer as if it were the latest smartphone release. For Vaporizers, New Technology and Product Design 2013-12-19T00:44:18Z I was top salesman in the world for a big wine company. Centenary to show more to Mervyn Peake than Gormenghast 2010-09-16T16:15:00Z While traveling in New York, she was introduced to an insurance salesman, Bill Lynch. Oldest Living Yoga Celebrity Tells All 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z There have been Van Winkles in whiskey since 1893, beginning with the original Julian Van Winkle, known as Pappy, a consummate salesman and character. Pappy Van Winkle’s aged bourbon can’t keep pace with consumer demand “In North Korea only the strong survive,” said the onetime black marketeer, a former salesman of used televisions who spent much of his life in Pyongyang but who eventually escaped to South Korea. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z A pigeon’s strut “purposeful as car salesmen”: delightful. Scenes From a Marriage: One Cheats, the Other Wants To 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z It’s about a struggling American salesman who travels to Saudi Arabia to sign a contract with a wealthy monarch, but instead finds himself entangled in a series of misadventures. Tom Hanks in Egypt to film ‘Hologram for the King’ 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z For the time being, Hollywood's ex-Golden Boy is living a private life, working as a timeshare salesman in the Cayman Islands. The 8 most horrifying Armie Hammer docuseries revelations from "House of Hammer" 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Fletcher, a gruffly masculine presence, resembled a David Mamet salesman trapped in an Edward Hopper painting. Hotel Room Theater: Richard Maxwell's 'Showcase' at the Millennium Biltmore 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Dad held the phone closer to his ear lest one of the other salesmen working at the twenty identical desks lined up in the cavernous trading room at W.E. My dad, the pornographer: How “Deep Throat” forever changed my childhood 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Damon himself plays a corporate "salesman" who comes to a rural community to persuade them to sell their land for fracking. Matt Damon's Promised Land 2013-04-19T06:46:32Z Its founder was a young perfume salesman named Alan Stillman, who lived on the Upper East Side and was interested in meeting single women. How T.G.I. Friday’s Helped Invent the Singles Bar 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Yeah, Sean the insurance salesman pulls Emily aside to tell her that for the past 28 years, his dad has shown him how to be a perfect father. The Bachelorette Watch: Sixteen Bachelors, Three Departures, One Trip to Dollywood 2012-05-29T12:00:44Z Mr. Thornton will play a con artist who tries to manipulate a small-town insurance salesman. Surprise at TV Critics’ Gathering: DeGeneres Is to Host the Oscars 2013-08-02T22:05:36Z Cut to a clip of a desperate cartoon salesman selling outdated technology. The most memorable comedy moments of the Obama presidency from SNL to ‘Luther the Anger Translator’ 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Romberg wasn’t a sellout; in that moment he was a salesman. Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z Armed only with small video cameras, these young men – former businessmen, furniture salesmen and wedding videographers – risk their lives to film the ongoing war atrocities. Top 5 investigative videos: Stoned on the job 2013-04-27T18:00:00Z Brent will be portrayed as a travelling salesman financing a UK concert tour in the hopes of fulfilling his dreams of becoming a rock star. Gervais to make David Brent movie 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The first so-called domestic white-noise machine may have been built in 1962, by a traveling salesman whose wife grew used to the air-conditioners in the motels they frequented and was unable to sleep at home. The Sound of Silence 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z I was an actor who wasn't getting auditions, and a salesman. Top 10 tips for being a literary agent 2014-05-10T00:21:16Z The salesman sized him up “as a regular working-class Joe,” as Mr. Cameron put it, who was entering unfamiliar territory, and set out to teach him the rituals of fine dressing. Loren Cameron, 63, Dies; His Camera Brought Transgender Men to Light 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “Rick doesn’t communicate having an agenda. He communicates enthusiasm and camaraderie. He’s a natural salesman, and people just want to throw in with him.” Richard Steiner, Producer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 69 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z There is, however, time for a brazen salesman to make a pitch: “The horse is dead,” he says. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at 50: their charm lives on 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Ever the salesman, Mr. Simmons knew a wedge issue when he saw one, but certainly careers like Ms. Ross’s are what he envisioned for the acts on his label, Def Jam. | Music: On DVD, ‘Big Fun in the Big Town’ and Diana Ross in Concert 2012-06-21T21:38:04Z Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte” is a retelling of “Don Quixote,” reworked so that its main character is a traveling salesman who drives across America. Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie on Booker Prize Shortlist 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z A young street salesman named Jesús unsuccessfully tried to sell a bog-standard kitchen sink to a fellow Cuban in search of the same. Rewind TV: The X Factor; The Trouble with Aid; The Killing; The Poison Tree; This World – review 2012-12-16T00:05:52Z As for his father, an insurance salesman, he offers this description: Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z The soldier, upon returning home to Tippecanoe, sold it for $5 to a grain salesman, who brazenly displayed it at his home and office. Antiques: Antiques Beach Reading (Yep, That?s Right) 2010-06-24T20:42:00Z It could be that salesmen will always bring anxiety-capitalism with them. Cannes 2016: Peter Bradshaw's festival verdict and award predictions 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z “When he’s not, he’s trying to actually win you over, like a salesman.” In ‘Tulsa King,’ Sylvester Stallone Tries Something New: Being Himself 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The salesman brings me a reversible gray coat. A Change Purse in T-Rex Skin, Perhaps? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Plenty of Voices, Heard as One, Telling Stories Without Wavering The ghost of Julius Caesar appears on the road in front of a traveling salesman. Theater Review: ‘Soulographie: Our Genocides’ at La MaMa 2012-11-14T23:13:23Z And salesmen looked at her funny when they realized she wasn’t shopping for a son. A Masculine Silhouette, Tailored for Her 2013-07-10T21:48:02Z Whether a prisoner, a writer, a lawyer, a custodian, a grad student, a camp director or a salesman, all are intent on finding meaning in their lives, or on questioning its absence. The Roving, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Peter Orner 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z "This will help your pain," long-haired salesman Rob Folse told an older woman with a cane and a few tattered bank notes. Pot shops buzz, crime eases as Colorado law marks 6 months 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z His father was a freelance salesman, but it was Lennon's mother, who lived until she was 99, who kept the family together. Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z To become a salesman, a successful salesman, and thankfully, I was quite successful, I was able to do that. ArtsBeat: A Word With Mitch Winehouse 2011-07-19T12:00:26Z In March, the Chicago insurance salesman was sentenced to 30 months in prison for committing the crime. TV personality Erin Andrews sues Marriott hotels 2010-07-15T23:36:00Z Here he meets O'Neil, an ambitious property salesman, who takes him under his wing. If This Is Home by Stuart Evers – review 2012-07-27T21:45:11Z Her father, a furniture salesman who also managed a community theater, presented her at an amateur hour show when she was about 6. Jackie Cain, sparkling jazz singer in duo with husband for decades, dies at 86 He worked in banks, in factories and as an encyclopedia salesman while writing his early scripts. William Hanley, Playwright and TV Writer, Dies at 80 2012-06-03T20:59:58Z I’m a wine salesman and spend most of my days driving between restaurants. Experience: I rescued a woman from an oncoming train 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Fans expect to find them on carefully perused lists, said Mitch Smith, the combination salesman and tour guide. Exploring Kentucky Bourbon at Its Source 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z I'm sure there are a lot of salesmen out there going through what Willy's going through, not recognizing their failure, not being willing to be adaptable and changing. Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making "Death of a Salesman" relevant today 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z She thinks he is a pen salesman, and her kids hate him for being boring. Film review: The Spy Next Door 2010-03-18T23:45:00Z Mr. Waite’s campaign was handicapped by the fact he was appearing as Willie Loman, the tragic traveling salesman in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” in a New Jersey theater. Ralph Waite, Patriarch in TV Series ‘The Waltons,’ Dies at 85 2014-02-14T06:00:50Z Born in the Bronx, a man who started his career as a tie salesman, he is the stereotypical American success story. Is Ralph Lauren Going to Be Hillary Clinton’s Dresser in Chief? 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Cervantes immortalized an old Spanish nobleman who goes mad from reading chivalric romances; Rushdie presents a worn-out pharmaceutical salesman from India who goes mad from watching TV. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Playing a cynical ghost, Frederic has the accent and edge of a weary Southern salesman. Visions of Heaven (and how to get there) in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Great Divorce’ 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z It was a happy chapter: Jack Reagan had steady work as a salesman, Nelle was active in the church and the community, and the boys were busy with school and sports. Reagan’s boyhood home is falling apart. And its director is begging for money to fix it. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Here’s the fast version: She grew up in New Jersey, the youngest of six, and her Mormon mother, a housewife, and her Jewish father, a used-car salesman, pretty much let her raise herself. I?m Chelsea Handler. And You?re Not. 2010-04-09T20:20:00Z Being a salesman previously really helped me, I was quite good at closing the deal. Top 10 tips for being a literary agent 2014-05-10T00:21:16Z There is the death of a salesman in that sense, that this optimism that you're selling, this hope that you're selling, will never really be completed with these products. From "Morning Show" to "Hello Tomorrow!" Billy Crudup reveals what his antiheroes are really selling 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z I played around with the concepts of business and salesmen, and in my mind came the image of cards and a traveling salesman. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z I think they're a part of the same salesman kind of figure that is a feature of American society. From "Morning Show" to "Hello Tomorrow!" Billy Crudup reveals what his antiheroes are really selling 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z He’s not an aggressive salesman, and perhaps that’s why he’s so effective: because he sounds like he’s celebrating something that’s already happened, not that he’s yearning for. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z In a scene that may or may not be staged, a life-insurance salesman is shown writing up a policy for a twelve-year-old in the living room of his mom’s home. A Vanished New Orleans Captured on “Straight from the Projects” 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z At 15, he decamped to Atlanta with his sister Renetta and her husband, who employed him as a used-car salesman. For RuPaul, A Second Act with ‘Drag Race’ 2014-02-21T22:38:50Z Mr. Palmer, who has a handsome salesman’s charm and is the more gregarious of the two, said he wasn’t the type to be wowed by a person’s house — but Ms. Ecclestone’s, of course, was “spectacular.” What to Do With a Multimillion-Dollar Megamansion? They Have Some Ideas. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Ford’s parents brought him up in Jackson, Miss. Parker Ford was a traveling salesman for a starch company, Edna his on-the-road love and lover. Richard Ford’s new memoir, ‘Between Them: Remembering My Parents’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z This puts Scott in the role of salesman, like his dad before him, called in to do the heavy lifting himself. 'I don’t want a publicist': Dougray Scott on film, fame and his father's war stories 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z He was a steelworker and salesman before joining NBC as a page. Chuck Barris, ‘Gong Show’ host, author of ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ dies at 87 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z He kept it in the trunk and carried it every night into the motel room, looking for all the world like a traveling salesman. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z A native of Baltimore, Murray rose from Goldman Sachs bond salesman to managing director for Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse First Boston. Wall Street exec., author Gordon Murray dies at 60 2011-01-18T00:48:08Z Mr. Rekulak’s father, a former construction worker and furniture salesman, died four months later. Master of Quirk 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Sandler was roundly praised for his charismatic performance as a desperate jewel salesman in the Safdie brothers’ exhausting and exhilarating “Uncut Gems.” Here we go again: #DirectorsSoMale at the Oscars 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The first season, which starred Martin Freeman as an overmatched insurance salesman and Billy Bob Thornton as an icy killer, won praise from critics and the Emmy for best mini-series. Ask a Show Runner: Submit Questions for Noah Hawley of ‘Fargo’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z His father, Walter, a conscientious objector who was jailed for his refusal to fight, was an insurance salesman. Jack Straw: 'I didn't have a nervous breakdown, but I was close to one' 2012-09-29T23:07:05Z After the death of his mother, the former Cora Fortier, when he was 8, he was sent to a Jesuit boarding school by his father, Paul, a salesman. Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane Dies at 74 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Her father, until then a busy salesman, went into decline. Mary Portas: 'I'm one of the best in the world at retail' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Whereas Pinter’s slippery speech telegraphs menace, Mamet’s salesmen strategically avoid conflict. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z It’s no longer just one word but it’s three words: it’s salesman, it’s sales and it’s man. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z Then a minority of voters elected as president a salesman who built his empire on fraud, spectacle and bankruptcy. American exceptionalism was our preexisting condition 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Ruvo, who comes scented with expensive cologne, is not intimidating, but — like most good salesmen — he uses proximity to put exclamation points on his message. Scene Stealers: Larry Ruvo’s Vegas Party for a Brain Center 2013-04-19T22:25:37Z But then I find myself telling them about my seatmate on the plane ride back from Georgia, a Latino jewelry salesman from Texas named Angel. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z A salesman went to retrieve it for me but found that the piece was gone. The Webster Takes New York 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Alan Clay, our hero, is a career salesman who’s at the end of his rope: broke, middle-aged, divorced, asking himself existential questions that a salesman really shouldn’t be asking himself. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z Helen was 17 when she met Maurice, a travelling salesman for his father’s women’s wear firm. Maurice and Helen Kaye: happily married for 80 years 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Her father was a salesman and her mother a housewife. Gwendoline Christie: ‘Playing Brienne of Tarth changed my life. I feel emotional’ 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z In an unusual collaboration, the Internet giant was closely involved with the film, a $58 million Fox production which features two middle-aged watch salesmen who are determined to get a job at Google. Google goes Hollywood with 'The Internship' 2013-05-28T20:25:03Z Under the same roof you’ll find bakers, fruit sellers, discount clothing, tobacco salesmen and butchers. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Bras?lia, Brazil 2011-11-03T19:15:38Z Mr. Dietz, the museum’s senior curator, has brought out company drawings, salesmen’s samples and catalog pages drawn partly from recent gifts like the archive of the onetime major jewelry manufacturer Krementz & Company. Antiques: Newark Recalls Its Lustrous Metals Past 2014-01-02T18:49:37Z He's still a salesman, even with nothing to sell. 'Solitary Man': a familiar role, brilliantly fulfilled, for Michael Douglas 2010-06-17T20:18:00Z “I told her I’m not a salesman” - and that broke the ice, he said. Art by renowned portraitist selling on Amazon 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z After his military service he worked briefly at a finance company and as a carpet salesman, before landing a job as a production assistant at the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1966. John Howard Davies, TV Comedy Producer, Dies at 72 2011-08-24T04:55:11Z Salim is a travelling salesman, an emigre from Oman stranded in the snow of New York. The best TV episodes of 2017, from The Deuce to Line of Duty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z She's referring mostly to her earlier days, to growing up in Birmingham, the middle child of a butcher mother and TV salesman father. Gillian Wearing: A nose for the truth 2011-08-29T20:30:01Z The fact that because of his father's job as a chemical salesman he moved schools frequently, was picked on because of his eye, and withdrew. Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' 2013-02-23T19:00:00Z He was a French salesman, and when my mother told my grandma she was pregnant, that was taboo. The Gypsy wedding that changed my life 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z That the whole city once shut down to honor Thomas Downing, a famed and beloved black oyster salesman. Why thousands of oyster shells are being dumped into New York Harbor 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z He was the ultimate salesman, but he was also a man of great imagination. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z But murder has always sold, and McDade was one of the great historians of its salesmen. The Indispensable Guide to Early American Murder 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z This is no time for a little local murder, if that’s all it is when a traveling salesman is shot dead with a Colt .45 pistol, the weapon of choice for American G.I.s. Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Wilson, who plays eccentric beetroot farmer/paper salesman Dwight, tweeted to his 3 million followers, before urging them to continue watching "The Office." "The Office" character won't get Farm spin-off on NBC 2012-10-29T23:47:47Z "This is a big, big thing for Rhinebeck," lumber salesman Glen Markle, 60, said as he clutched a cup of coffee on Market Street. Wedding bells awaken sleepy New York town 2010-07-30T02:51:00Z This year’s competition, between Mr. DeWyze, a former paint salesman, and Crystal Bowersox, both 24, did not ignite nearly as much interest among viewers. ?American Idol? Finale?s Ratings Are Down 2010-05-27T21:56:00Z The film was based on an insider memoir by a former Viagra salesman. Love and Other Drugs ? review 2010-12-23T22:19:00Z Her grandfather was 50 and a traveling salesman. Vagabond Lives: Happier Memories From Kathryn Harrison’s Childhood 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z His father, a musician in Vancouver specializing in Cape Breton style fiddle, retired as an insurance salesman there. Who Could Have Predicted It? (Well, Actually Two Different Psychics) 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z "I'm not a salesman for Jesus," says Staub of The Kindlings Muse. Northwest Christians explore faith, art and culture 2011-04-22T23:34:36Z Yet the particulars of Tarantino’s men — their identical suits, their color-coded pseudonyms, their hidden identities — underscore the impersonality of their expected behaviors, rendering them interchangeable, and thus impotent, as the salesman of “Glengarry.” ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ at 30: Men Talking 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Stevens traced the development of fake news from the original snake-oil salesman, Clark Stanley in the 19th century, who claimed to cure anything with a potion made from boiling rattlesnakes. Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop wellness products condemned by NHS chief 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z But I never saw an ice cream van or hut, a deckchair salesman, a cafe or restaurant on any that I visited – from San Francisco to San Diego. Broken Britain? Read returning natives before Joan Collins 2011-08-25T08:56:29Z These hack real estate salesmen also slam doors hard enough to make walls tremble. Theater Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ by David Mamet, With Al Pacino 2012-12-09T03:00:00Z I was remarkably drawn to this snake oil salesman who used increase more often as a noun than a verb. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z Hanhardt's crew used meticulous planning and pinpoint timing to steal jewels from traveling salesmen, often when they would duck into a restaurant or a gas station. Cop turned thief released to halfway house 2011-07-20T02:34:00Z After serving in the Air Force during the Korean War, he took a job as an advertising salesman with NBC in New York. Pat Harrington, the Super on ‘One Day at a Time,’ Dies at 86 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The car salesmen initially used the unsold inventory from their Hupmobile dealership to transport workers between the pit, their homes and the commercial district of Alice, which was later absorbed into Hibbing. Greyhound: 100 years old and acting younger than ever The Cannons roster includes lawyers, stockbrokers and a pharmaceutical salesman. Can This Man Make Lacrosse Sexy? 2010-10-13T21:24:00Z Should I be offended that after I tried on this confection, availing myself of heels to prevent hem drag, a helpful but sober salesman spirited it into a backroom, as if to inspect for damage? Critical Shopper: For Kors, the Glow Doesn?t Fade 2011-04-13T22:39:07Z Henry, who farms more than 3,000 acres, is an aggressive, unscrupulous salesman for a company that markets genetically modified seeds. Movie Review: ‘At Any Price,’ Directed by Ramin Bahrani 2013-04-23T22:09:27Z I was a mop bucket salesman in LA. How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most iconic image from his salesman era came in 1960. Bounce so hard 2012-07-28T13:00:00Z His father, who’d been born in Ireland, was a talker, a newspaper ad salesman who won a national Dale Carnegie public speaking contest in 1935. Books of The Times: James Sullivan on George Carlin?s Life: ?Seven Dirty Words? 2010-07-08T22:02:00Z This documentary tells the story of the Australian star who had worked as a mechanic and a used-car salesman but had no acting experience when he was offered the role of James Bond. South by Southwest: 5 Films to Watch For 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Director Will Gluck, whose only previous feature was the much grosser teen comedy Fired Up!, is like a salesman who insists on planting his foot in your door even when you've invited him in. Easy A: We Heart Emma Stone 2010-09-17T17:35:00Z “Harvey is one of the best salesmen I ever knew,” said Andy Harlow, who was a “band boy” for Averne’s teen group, carrying Harvey’s vibraphones and other gear to gigs and practice. How the Record Man Harvey Averne Helped Take Latin Music Worldwide 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Her direct message to Mr. Viall, displayed alongside the piece, investigates the show’s aggressive rebranding of the Wisconsin software salesman into America’s most enduring eligible bachelor. Turning Reality TV Trash Into Art 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z "Yes baby, " I say, with one of those lemon-slanging used car salesman smiles. I love being a Girl Dad 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z She had a shoe salesman at Saks and someone who made her hats. What My Mother’s Cooking Taught Me 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Hands off my wife, you seedy art-dealing historian travelling salesman character! Downton Abbey recap: series five, episode four – dangerously close to an actual plot 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z One morning a salesman named Gregor Samsa awoke to find himself transformed into a hideous bug, and since then the world has been struggling to figure out what that means. Review | Perumal Murugan said his career as a novelist was dead. Lucky for us, he was wrong. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Olivia talks to people in admonitory, staccato sentences that at times make her sound like a salesman in “Glengarry Glen Ross.” | 'Scandal': ?Scandal,? ABC Political Drama With Kerry Washington 2012-04-04T22:18:40Z I’m fine with Chandor’s portrayal of these bankers as salesmen rather than great economic thinkers and with his portrayal of an industry-wide hubris that allows everyone to think themselves invincible. Margin Call: A Financial Crisis Film Collides With The Zeitgeist 2011-10-20T20:18:09Z Echakhch’s installation of jasmine necklaces, strung together and covered with a gauzy shirt to guard their scent, conjures the memory of a traveling flower salesman in Beirut. The Gucci Museo Examines the Allure of the Flower in a New Exhibition 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z He’s never been a pushy salesman: his breathy, narrow croon is a neat fit for songs about not trying too hard, or not wanting to. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-26T21:57:00Z The company knows that consumers don't buy the product; they buy the salesman. The Joneses Review: Keeping Up With Them Could Kill You 2010-04-16T01:10:00Z Starring the Tony-nominated Denzel Washington as a traveling salesman haunted by death, this revival of Eugene O’Neill’s classic shutters its saloon. 7 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Her father was an engineering student who later became an Apple salesman; her mother was studying library science. This Life: Maria Popova Has Some Big Ideas 2012-11-30T21:35:52Z Or perhaps a snake oil salesman, an insecure husband desperate to impress his wife, or a repressed gay man in an intolerant age? The Master Mystery: Solving Paul Thomas Anderson’s Many Riddles 2012-09-24T12:00:35Z He became a traveling salesmen and invented things, including a dry-cleaning machine, according to an essay she wrote in Time magazine in 2008. Judith Crist, Film Critic, Dies at 90 2012-08-07T16:35:14Z “Cement Suitcase,” a filmed-in-Eastern Washington comedy about a Yakima Valley wine salesman, will screen at 5 p.m. ‘Masterful Suspense,’ signings, ‘Twin Peaks’ prequel, docs 2014-03-20T22:09:14Z Wallace, on the other hand, is the name for Republican car salesmen. Motherlode Blog: An App to Help Choose a Name (or Analyze the Possibilities) 2013-01-31T21:39:28Z McLean grew up in a village in East Sussex, the daughter of a legal secretary and an X-ray engineer and salesman who loved to travel and made their own homemade wine. The Graphic Designer Who Maps the World’s Cities by Smell 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The son of a Swiss schoolteacher and a French salesman from Burgundy, he won prizes in school and while in his teens worked as an apprentice reporter, writing unsigned pieces for a local newspaper. Félix Fénéon, the Collector-Anarchist Who Was Seurat’s First Champion 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z One-time seminarist, navy man, stockbroker, art collector and Sunday painter, travelling salesman, bill-poster, ceramicist, labourer, journalist and editor, Gauguin also had an eye for posterity. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z He briefly moved to Southern California in search of a record deal and became a successful car salesman instead. Billy Ray Cyrus is back. But he never really went away. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Throughout his military service and his years as a salesman, Mr. Hull honed his skills as an actor, taking parts in amateur and community theater. Charles Hull, Who Brought Theater to Young Audiences, Dies at 92 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z In “The Birds,” Hitchcock’s classic horror film about avian madness in a California town, he played a traveling salesman who advises, “Kill them all!” Joe Mantell Is Dead at 94; Played Sidekick in ?Marty? 2010-10-01T05:35:00Z We should shut the doors to the salesmen and ask them not to touch the artefacts. Hands off our local museum collections 2011-01-14T18:30:38Z But Ray, a furniture salesman, has criminals in his family tree and thieves asking him to act as their fence. 10 books to read in September 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z We saw it first in his play about real estate salesmen Glengarry Glen Ross; then in his first film as writer and director House Of Games; and then The Spanish Prisoner. This week's new theatre 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Mr. Parrillo, 37, is a residential real estate salesman at New York City Property and Residence Management in New York. Brittany Brady, Jeffrey Parrillo 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z And then there is an insult from another salesman when he goes to a store. Wendell Pierce: ‘I Still Have Fear, But Now I Have Courage’ 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Now it hangs prominently in my house, a tribute to the pluck of a salesman. An angry letter from Frank Lloyd Wright as a wedding gift 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z He’s a sweet-potato vendor, a longstanding figure in Mexico City’s populous community of itinerant street salesmen. Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z He won a scholarship to attend college at Lawrence Technical Institute, before he was drafted to serve in World War II and later worked as a draftsman and insurance salesman. My John DeLorean Story 2011-10-21T17:24:21Z “But D convinced me. He was a pretty good salesman.” Jo Walker-Meador, 93, Dies; Raised Country Music’s Profile 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, he probes the disappearance of an itinerant patent medicine salesman and his daughter. Crime fiction: Seattle-area authors set their mysteries here, there and Cincinnati 2012-05-09T21:36:04Z A salesman saw me eyeing his goat and grinned. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z After working as a fry cook, shoe salesman and various other odd jobs, Wagner found his way into the cocktail-lounge circuit. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Well, again, really, I'm not a natural salesman, I really am not. Hank Azaria: "For Mets fans, the bad news is there's no games. The good news is there's no games" 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z And, completing the trio of lead roles, Gavin Creel as Elder Price wittily conveys the implacable self-regard and gleaming teeth of the door-to-door religious salesman. The Book of Mormon – review 2013-03-21T23:00:02Z She can barely remember his name, let alone that he’s a girdle salesman. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Seeking Safe Harbor 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z There's also wholesale plundering from the life of short-story writer Julian Maclaren-Ross who, like Taylor's central character James Ross, was a door-to-door salesman. Crime novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Rocky’s ideas were engaging, and he was a good salesman, but I wasn’t entirely buying it. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z First up, George Hunka considers the figure of the salesman as "a central character of postwar American drama". Noises off: From Salesman to selling out 2012-06-08T11:20:39Z Evans was born in 1930 to a Jewish family in New York, and spent his youth acting in radio plays and working with his older brother as a salesman of women’s slacks. The Legacy of Robert Evans, a Vexing Hollywood Legend 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z His father tried to attend college but found tuition too costly and worked for the rest of his life as a delivery man for a bakery and a salesman for a dairy company. William A. Christenberry, Photographer of Rural South, Dies at 80 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Was Colonel Parker — a native of Holland, using a fake name and honorary military title and pretending to be a good old boy from West Virginia — a captivating snake-oil salesman? Baz Luhrmann Is Ready for Rhinestones, Cadillacs, Dr. Feelgood and a Svengali 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Even the father’s absence reflects the frequent periods when his bullying salesman father — Cornelius Coffin Williams — known as “CC,” would go on the road, leaving Tom, Edwina and Rose at one another’s mercies. Tennessee Williams and the menagerie that made up the life of a legendary playwright “Sneaky People,” from 1975, chronicles three hectic days in the life of a used-car salesman, a “family man” who keeps a mistress and hires a car washer to kill his phlegmatic wife. Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z The museum was founded in Gracie Mansion, now the mayor’s official residence, nearly a century ago, in 1923, by Henry Collins Brown, a Scottish-born advertising salesman and journalist, as the city approached its tricentennial. In ‘New York at Its Core,’ a Big Apple Exhibition Is a Big Bite of History 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z A wedge is a brash used car salesman of a salad, a primal dish—a rare thing for a plate of raw greens to be. It’s Time to Admit That Iceberg Is a Superior Lettuce 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z After national service in the Royal Navy, he pursued a variety of short-lived careers from clerk to salesman. John Howard Davies obituary 2011-08-24T17:45:22Z He is a car salesman, not a used car salesman. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Strangely, the used car salesman is the probably the most truthful person in the entire episode, even as he tries to get Stan to exceed his price range. 'The Americans' Recap: Secrets in the Basement 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z In this staging of David Mamet’s 1984 play — with Blake grafted in from the 1992 film adaptation — the salesmen whom Blake hectors stood behind Dr. Schmidt. ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at Fairfield, as a Classroom Text 2012-10-15T22:34:09Z Willy is not just a bad salesman, he's a flawed man, blinded by arrogance. Sales consultant Angel Hill on Death of a Salesman 2010-05-09T21:15:00Z My dad was a travelling salesman and told a good joke. Dick Van Dyke: 'Someone should have told me to work on my Cockney accent' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z In most photos, he’s dressed like an insurance salesman or undertaker: plain tie, white shirt, dark jacket. The greatest reporter of our time, and why we should never forget him 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “Salesman” is edited by Charlotte Zwerin, whom the Maysles list as a co-creator, to conclude with a cascade of failures, among them a futile attempt to sell a Bible to a salesman of vacuum cleaners. When the Maysles Made a Vérité Star of a Bible Huckster 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z He knows he looks like a used-car salesman. Who Says Crime Doesn’t Pay? In These Novels, It Does 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In this harrowing play, set in the cancer ward of a London hospital, he portrayed a retired salesman unable to come to terms with terminal illness. Sir Norman Wisdom obituary 2010-10-05T00:01:00Z Still, it was here where Mr. Kern was introduced to epoxies that were left as samples by traveling salesmen. At 84, an Artist Tries Something New: Displaying His Work 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z “This is what people refer to as ‘real’ country ham, the kind I’d heard about from my mom growing up but never had until I had Freddie’s,” Bill Sanders, 42, an insurance salesman, said. A Kentucky Ham Tradition Endures, From the Back of a Truck 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Wood, a retired salesman, said it is a simple fix for the elderly and others who may be vulnerable. Perspective | How to travel during extreme heat 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Or, in his serious moments, the very young Tom Cruise — a passionate salesman of the higher emotions. Is John Green a Bigger Star Than Tom Cruise? 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z One dryer salesman spoke admiringly of it as a dodgy subscription plan, as if the paper companies were running some long con to print themselves money. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The salesman, suddenly quite spirited, set into motion a string of fanfare. She Was My World, but We Couldn’t Marry 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In the opening story, “Miracle Polish,” a skeptical man buys a mirror cleanser from a door-to-door salesman. Reviews: New Books From Steven Millhauser, Per Petterson and More 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z “It’s very nice,” I tell the salesman, “but way over what I was planning to spend.” I Was Misinformed: I Was Misinformed: The Breakup Bed 2012-10-15T19:07:39Z The two star as recently fired salesmen who seek to reinvent themselves by winning internships at Google, bringing the same kooky chemistry that made "Wedding Crashers" a surprise smash. Now dads, Vaughn and Wilson bond with kids on set 2013-06-05T13:10:13Z I thought of the opening to Robert Redford's excellent 1994 movie Quiz Show, in which a 1950s car salesman, showing off a gorgeous automobile, flinches at the eerie sound of Sputnik's Telstar bleeping. Film review: Double Take 2010-04-01T21:25:00Z As for artists, choreographers included, can they sometimes resemble salesmen or politicians, selling the public a bills of goods? The Week Ahead: June 13 ? 19 2010-06-11T13:31:00Z As a child, when people asked what my father’s profession was I said he was a salesman. The mothering class 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z It was better to come off as an amateur than a good salesman. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z I went to an arts conference in Manhattan last spring, and everyone was scrambling to meet everyone, asserting their individuality like sad salesmen. Everyone is so special 2014-04-05T22:00:00Z His character, Blake, is a hotshot manager, sent by the home office to inspire a handful of real estate salesmen with a contest: First prize, an Eldorado. ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at Fairfield, as a Classroom Text 2012-10-15T22:34:09Z He was massive and El Salvadorian, an insurance salesman who weighed well over 450 pounds. Secrets of the crematory: “Hey, come in here and help me get this big guy on the table” 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z “It’s a whole lifestyle,” said my lovely salesman, Dylan Smith. Critical Shopper: At Dior, a New Look That?s More of a Sneer 2010-12-29T20:50:03Z Dustin is Steve’s rival and mirror image, a more obnoxious and more effective version of the friendly young salesman who is charming the locals with a mixture of straight talk and transparent bluff. Movie Review: ‘Promised Land,’ With Matt Damon, Directed by Gus Van Sant 2012-12-27T23:24:39Z Photograph: Allstar Just before the first world war, a penniless pencil-sharpener salesman from Chicago had one of those eureka moments that occasionally illuminate the Anglo-American literary landscape. Tarzan returns: from Edwardian swinger to hunky ecowarrior 2012-07-14T23:06:48Z For these traveling salesmen of make-believe, a hotel is home — an artificial, but for film folk natural, domestic domicile. Somewhere: Sofia Coppola's Hotel California 2010-09-05T17:20:00Z Hickey, a charming traveling salesman, in this dark and poetic drama that unfolds in a Manhattan saloon. Denzel Washington to Star in ‘Iceman Cometh’ on Broadway 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z “Death of a Salesman,” often regarded as one of the greatest American plays, is about a traveling salesman whose career, and mental state, are falling apart. Wendell Pierce to Star in ‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Mackay speaks fast and persuasively, like a sincere used-car salesman who has doctored the mileage and seems constantly astonished by the ease of his own success. Richard III – review 2013-02-21T17:43:00Z Her father was an insurance salesman who played piano at weddings and bar mitzvahs; her mother went with her to tap school, and they performed together at family gatherings. Lois Lilienstein, of the Children’s Trio Sharon, Lois & Bram, Dies at 78 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Milk arrived every morning from the horse cart of my family’s Brock-Hall Dairy, delivered to back doors by milkmen who later became route salesman. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z “Gibraltar” jettisons Stephen Dedalus, the young academic character whose story threads through the novel, to focus on the advertising salesman Leopold Bloom and his younger wife, Molly. Theater Review: ‘Gibraltar,’ Adapted From ‘Ulysses,’ Plays at Irish Rep 2013-06-25T22:02:32Z You probably open your front door to many strangers and near-strangers — the pizza delivery guy, political canvassers, the sketchy home improvement salesmen who are “doing work in the neighborhood,” among others. Simple and affordable ways to safeguard your home 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Unemployed salesmen pretend to be women in an office of women who cannot see through their subterfuge. 20 notable TV shows set to debut for the midseason: from sitcoms and serial mysteries to Betty White as prankster 2012-01-12T19:24:42Z The travails of the salesmen lend just enough narrative structure to keep your interest and to prevent “Pigeon” from scattering into YouTube-ready fragments. Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,’ Roy Andersson’s Rumination on Life 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The salesman who recommended my Maytag told me it’s still best to keep the door open when not in use and run the washer’s cleaning cycle once a month. Perspective | The upshot of a broken washer: 4 things I learned while doing laundry at friends’ homes 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z He held odd jobs — bellhop, cook — and eventually moved to New York City, where he worked as a salesman and studied writing at the New School and wrote for The Village Voice, among other publications. William Price Fox, Southern Novelist, Is Dead at 89 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Each choreographed an “empty solo,” performed for an expert in a field other than dance, including an architect, an astrophysicist, a medical supply salesman, a sommelier and a film editor. Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey?s ?Tool Is Loot? 2011-09-21T22:23:13Z He’s a salesman, a showman, a ladies man, a man of the people. ‘Loro’ Review: A Corrupt Leader, and the People Who Love Him 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The salesman there sees my nurse costume and asks me, ‘Can you print ‘Linda Lovelace’ on that?’ ” First Amendment Treatise, Filled With Naked People 2010-10-10T19:47:00Z It's not just a con job by Silicon Valley snake-oil salesmen who took the smartphone from nonexistent to ubiquitous in eight years. Andrew Keen rages against the machine in 'The Internet Is Not the Answer' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z “There are so many snake oil salesmen out there trying to sell you their LEDs,” said Kayvan Khalatbari, founder of a cannabis consulting firm and mayoral candidate. Not so green: how the weed industry is a glutton for fossil fuels 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Set during the Depression, the coming-of-ager tells the story of a young boy left to look after himself after his mother is hospitalized and his father is on the road as a traveling salesman. Documentary examines Penn State in wake of Sandusky scandal 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z In “Swag,” a car salesman teams up with a car thief for a new enterprise: armed robbery. Elmore Leonard shoots his way into the Library of America The salesman patter of his musical voice remains, but it is directed to darker, more devious ends. Dallas Buyers Club: He Hated Gays, Got AIDS and Saved Lives 2013-10-31T21:00:41Z The successful door-to-door salesman must be skilled at driving, walking and talking. Bill Porter, an Exceptional Salesman Who Inspired a Film, Dies at 81 2013-12-10T01:38:58Z A salesman has to keep selling his product — himself — to the end. Remembering Tony Curtis: The Best of Everything 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z The club was the brainchild of New Jersey shoe salesman Barney Josephson: a pithy antidote to the snooty, often racist elitism of other New York nightspots. Strange Fruit: the first great protest song 2011-02-16T08:00:05Z One of the reporters I spoke with on the Clinton story — notice I’m not naming names; a promise is a promise — began our conversation with more negotiating ploys than a used-car salesman. Why journalists need to practice what they preach 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z His father was a salesman, and the family soon moved to the Bronx. Phil Stern, photographer of stars during Hollywood’s golden age, dies at 95 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Standing there in white, they were described by chatters as either a boy band, Good Humor ice cream salesmen or a janitorial service. 'American Idol' does charity, finally says goodbye to 'Teflon Tim' 2010-04-22T14:07:00Z Don’t feel bad for my friend, the salesman. This is what a pre-moon Speedmaster watch is worth 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Yablans began his career as a salesman traversing the Midwest and became a marketing executive. Frank Yablans, Hollywood executive who led Paramount Pictures, dies at 79 Colbert has chosen the role of padded publicity salesman over political sketch-comedian, and in practice, that means walking away from fights he’s perfectly qualified for. The old “Stephen Colbert” is gone for good: “The Late Show” crosses over firmly as host claims his new ground 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Virtually no child dreams of being an accountant, an insurance salesman, or even a CEO. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Although members of the hotel's staff claimed they were just rumors, the photos and Hammer's newfound job as a timeshare salesman were proven true by Variety in a July 13 report. Armie Hammer's cannibalism, abuse allegations are explored in new "House of Hammer" trailer 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Parker was a traveling salesman, who without a “rich interior life” but with natural charm, seemed to find the profession best suited for him. Parents are people first — who may even love each other more than the kids 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z His mother was a painter, and his father was a salesman whose work led to the family living in many locales, from Peru to Cleveland. Mark Strand, acclaimed bard of absence and loss, dies at 80 The salesman, aware that he has a live one, steers me to a firmer model. I Was Misinformed: I Was Misinformed: The Breakup Bed 2012-10-15T19:07:39Z The series was based partly on his own experiences of working in a London department store as a suit salesman. Comedy writer Jeremy Lloyd dies 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Someone writes that “the column idea” is very much in favor among salesmen of tractors and sledgehammers and such. Gene Weingarten’s most pathetic career moment? This column idea. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z One day, while shopping after Thanksgiving, Anderson and his wife rounded a corner and he spotted Nick Lucero, a salesman, with his wife. Delbert Anderson’s Mission: Putting ‘Native Sound Back Into Jazz’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The shop has a lounge area with a bar cart, fitting rooms and salesmen who would never be mistaken for basketball players. ‘Not So Tall’ Guys Finally Get Their Own Store 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z I discovered, to my surprise, that he was born into an ordinary family in Teddington, London, in 1899, the son of a humble piano salesman. Alistair McGowan: Mad about the Master 2010-12-06T22:01:00Z He held full-time cantorships in the Bronx and Brooklyn and also worked as a salesman for the Reliable Silk Company in Manhattan’s garment district. Critic’s Notebook: Singing in the Rain in Tribute to Richard Tucker 2013-08-29T22:07:53Z The band wanted to keep filming their concerts, and, on the recommendation of the cinematographer Haskell Wexler, hired the filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, who had just released “Salesman,” a documentary about Bible salesmen. The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Wistful articles began to appear about the dwindling number of water-bed salesmen, and their loyal, aging customers. The Squishiest, Sweetest Sleep 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z My grandfather was a retired life-insurance salesman in his seventies when I knew him best—if I knew him at all. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Seven years later, his parents settled in Brooklyn, where his father found work as a salesman. Oscar Brand, folk troubadour and radio host for seven decades, dies at 96 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z “Beautiful!” a salesman proclaimed after ushering me into one of Ms. Stefani’s six-inch wedges, though he ruined the bonding moment crucial to commissions by disappearing immediately afterward. Critical Shopper: At Macy’s, Shoes Reign on the Second Floor 2012-10-02T21:36:00Z Meanwhile, Xavier called his lot The X-Men, which makes them sound like laxative salesmen. X-Men: First Class and its schoolboy behaviour – film on TV recap 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z At Wempe, Mr. Hartley was greeted warmly, with mild fawning by Michael Guzman, a dapper salesman in a tailored suit, who praised Mr. Hartley’s refined taste. Justin Hartley of ‘This Is Us’ Meditates on His Rolexes 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z He studied history at the University of Maryland, then drifted for several years, working briefly as a bra salesman, which sounds like a joke and has indeed provided David with material in the years since. Larry David: 'I'm cranky' 2010-06-25T23:02:00Z By 2009 two other researchers had pushed it back to 1962, when it appeared in a short story about a brush salesman and an article in a car magazine. ‘The Whole Nine Yards’: Seeking a Phrase’s Origin 2012-12-26T22:43:52Z But why are these officials so interested in the details of an extramarital fling between a provincial tractor salesman and a small-town pharmacist? “The Blue Room”: French star Mathieu Amalric in a crafty remix of “Gone Girl” 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The son of a Polish paint salesman, Sanders grew up in New York without a lot of money but with plenty of immigrants as neighbors. He likes smoothies, pinot noir, tandoori pork. Does that make Bernie a foodie? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Producers said Wednesday that the show, which marks the 30th anniversary of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the backbiting world of salesmen, has recouped its $3.3 million investment. Al Pacino wins as 'Glengarry Glen Ross' recoups 2012-12-19T18:31:05Z Mr. Linke once told an advertising salesman from Lever Brothers that his clients were like any other merchandise. Richard Linke, Andy Griffith’s Talent Manager, Dies at 98 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z He eventually joined Oscar Mayer as a salesman. Meinhardt Raabe, Legendary Munchkin, Dies at 94 2010-04-10T00:42:00Z The Bond movies needed sex to sell their violence, especially to a wide audience, and Mr. Connery was the ideal salesman. Review: In ‘Spectre,’ Daniel Craig Returns as James Bond 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Twice divorced, unapologetically crude and the owner of casinos bearing his name, Trump would never be confused for a Bible salesman. How Trump got religion — and why his legendary minister’s son now rejects him 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The twins’ retinue included the four musicians in the band, a documentary filmmaker, a merchandise salesman and assorted staff members. ‘Ready to Rock, You Guys?’ The Winklevoss Twins Play Amagansett. 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z The revival marks the 30th anniversary of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the backbiting world of salesmen. John C McGinley of 'Scrubs' fame comes to Broadway 2012-08-06T21:46:04Z His father retired as a Prudential insurance salesman in Winchester, and is now an independent research consultant, studying French Masonic manuscripts at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library in Lexington, Mass. Melynda Barnes, Karim Oussayef 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z In my own childhood home, my father, a traveling salesman, listened only to news radio, mostly for traffic updates. From Our Children: Retreating to Memory With a Song 2012-09-25T15:15:07Z Upstairs I’d found my mother, father and a salesman gathered around a sofa. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z They’re real estate agents, lawyers, stay-at-home moms, educators, insurance salesmen, gym franchise owners and funeral home directors all facing a dramatic loss of income that’s getting worse as the exile continues. Texas Democrats are in their fifth week of exile, and grappling with the toll of an endless summer on the run 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z In the opera she becomes Estelle, a shy widow from Hartford, who has a date in New York with a divorced piano salesman of Portuguese background who winds up taking her to “Tell Me Tomorrow.” Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z New pieces in the museum’s collection include a salesman’s kit from the Underground Home company, pieces of terra cotta from buildings in Chicago and New York and more. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction He worked as a “lumper,” bringing boxes of fish from the boats, then as a journeyman, wheeling them to the loading zones, then as a skinner, a cutter, a salesman, and, finally, a buyer. The Last Robot-Proof Job in America? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The problem is that he simply doesn’t look or sound like any salesman you’ve ever met. The Root of All Evil: Glengarry Glen Ross and Golden Boy on Broadway 2012-12-11T16:00:50Z The salesman was struck down in midpitch on a cloudless Florida day. | 'Curious & Unusual Deaths': ?Curious & Unusual Deaths? on Discovery Fit & Health 2012-02-16T22:55:02Z The only option left at this point is probably real witness location, not the illegal, underground variety that Saul's buddy the vacuum cleaner salesman is selling. Walter White has to laugh, otherwise he'd cry 2011-09-26T07:27:00Z Or it might be a new inventory system, which a salesman told me was implemented after $20 million worth of merchandise was stolen last year. Critical Shopper: At Macy’s, Shoes Reign on the Second Floor 2012-10-02T21:36:00Z After a prolonged chuckle, Russell drops his impersonation of Groundhog Day's irksome insurance salesman, a minor but intensely memorable character, and explains excitedly that he recently met Andie MacDowell, one of the film's stars. Groundhog Day: the perfect comedy, for ever 2013-02-07T20:00:03Z Well before the private school’s owner took us up to her office and pushed the tuition quote across the table like a used car salesman, I knew my two-year-old wouldn’t thrive there. Private preschool is a racket 2013-09-05T13:50:00Z Abel’s salesmen are not safe as they go from door to door. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Jack’s a charming salesman: A barman in Dublin told me that when you walk into a meeting with him, you suddenly find yourself signing things. Teeling Irish Whiskey's Pots O' Gold 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Briggs, speaking to the Observer, acknowledges that he has become part of a global merchandising campaign, but confesses that it's a labour of love, a devotee's homage to the pencil-sharpener salesman from Chicago. Tarzan returns: from Edwardian swinger to hunky ecowarrior 2012-07-14T23:06:48Z There’s nothing to buy – no salesman will call. The case for “good enough”: Forget striving–our happiness depends on being satisfied with less 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z So Ronald is the focus of all the racial sexual anxiety of "Cedar Rapids," which is asking a lot from a Minnesota insurance salesman. "Cedar Rapids": "The Office" meets "The Hangover" in Iowa's sin city! 2011-02-09T20:30:00Z The narrator, an unflappable salesman, calmly tosses fleece jackets into the frenzied crowd as trampled, mangled bodies accumulate. ‘Friday Black’ Uses Fantasy and Blistering Satire to Skewer Racism and Consumer Culture 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z He was a workaholic, dedicated to his craft — having honed that ethic as a door-to-door salesman after he ran away from home in Oklahoma. Embattled comedian Katt Williams comes to Seattle 2012-11-22T14:14:42Z She played a “handler” sent to pre-revolution Cuba to check on a vacuum cleaner salesman moonlighting as a British secret agent, portrayed by Alec Guinness. Maureen O’Hara, smoldering Irish beauty of movie fame, dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z “It was sort of like ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’” said Don Jolly, who worked at the call center in 2015, invoking the name of David Mamet’s drama of cutthroat real estate salesmen. Who’s That Annoying Telemarketer on the Phone? It’s the Opera 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z “These watches keep time perfectly,” the salesman said. She Was My World, but We Couldn’t Marry 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z When he first made the choice to be a professional writer at 36, abandoning his job as a traveling insurance salesman, a smog of anxiety descended over the house. Review: In ‘My Father, the Pornographer,’ Chris Offutt Opens Up 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z At the beginning of “The Internship,” Wilson and Vaughn play classic Gen Xers, salesmen living in the moment and way beyond their means. “The Internship” teaches Gen Xers to get along with millennials 2013-06-11T19:42:00Z "I ask everyone for money," said Mr. Barber, who describes himself as a salesman by nature. The Carpetbagger: The Cost of an Oscar Campaign 2012-12-31T16:30:24Z After graduating from Northern Michigan University, Schultz worked as a salesman for Xerox. What Warren Buffett, Richard Branson and Other Successful People Were Doing at Age 25 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Months later, on Jan. 18, McDonald was watching television at home, and when the doorbell rang and her Ring camera showed a man in a mask, she figured he was a salesman and ignored it. We’re having trouble recognizing each other in masks, and it’s getting awkward 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z In one market, they encountered salesmen offering camel meat, sequined belly-dancer bras and a dagger with a sign that read, “a present for your mother-in-law.” Front Row: Anna Sui Takes a Long Shopping Trip on ?Man Shops Globe? 2010-08-12T00:40:00Z Last fall, Matthew Wilson, 29, a pharmaceutical salesman from Tampa, Fla., was visiting his alma mater, Mars Hill College in North Carolina, where he had been extremely active: fraternity president, track team, homecoming court. Who Elected Me Mayor on Foursquare? I Did 2010-08-19T00:13:00Z “How can you be more than happy to help?” he wondered, of the idiom thrust upon him in a store by a particularly eager salesman. Gad Elmaleh’s Translated Comedy 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Growing up the daughter of a salesman and a schoolteacher, Heyman had no thought of becoming a psychoanalyst, let alone first training as a medical doctor, as she eventually did. The Erotic Truths of “Scary Old Sex” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Malcolm Harris, the author I interviewed for the original reader callout, described those jostling to coin a lasting name as hacks and salesmen. We Asked Generation Z to Pick a Name. It Wasn’t Generation Z. 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z A TV salesman emerges from his basement to discover a dead body hanging from a lamppost, but his neighbors are strangely sanguine about the lynching. Review | ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ is a companion anthology to the new TV show 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z His father was a meat salesman with a side hustle as a bookie, while his mother struggled with her mental health and addiction. Meet Jelly Roll, the Rapper Turned Country Singer Rousing Nashville 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z A doorbell salesman, stymied by his ability to roust only those with working doorbells, is consoled by his intended customer. New Israeli Fiction: A Reluctant Bride, a Brave Survivor and Fables for a Modern World 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z As his tenure nears its end, he seems more intent on being the salesman in chief. Critic’s Notebook: Hosting Obama, ‘Two Ferns’ Star Pulls No Punches 2014-03-11T15:39:34Z One user on Reddit wrote: “It’s like watching ‘death of a salesman’ live,” one user wrote. An Internet Surprise From Louis C.K.: Barroom Drama Flecked With Dark Humor 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Lonely and depressed, he takes a job as a travelling salesman selling toothbrushes, and sets out on an ill-fated journey to the Shetlands. A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z These sessions were started in 2009 as a way for curious Reddit users to present free-form questions to a range of people that might include a crime scene cleaner or a former used car salesman. Noted: Reddit’s Wide Audience Drives the Interview 2013-07-24T19:33:59Z It’s probably worth noting that some people, encountering a salesman wearing an elongated tank top over double-layered shorts, might mistake the store for a showroom of straitjackets. Front Row: Rick Owens Opens a SoHo Pop-Up 2013-07-17T18:35:18Z Set in Minnesota, it will focus on a small-town insurance salesman preyed upon by a manipulative drifter. Fargo TV series to air on Channel 4 2014-03-10T10:58:30Z Cardiff Electric is a family business, slow moving and middle of the road; they need a new salesman to push product, not reinvent it. 'Halt and Catch Fire' dives into '80s tech war with AMC flair 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z How dare a salesman's son get published before him? Mad Men: series one, episode five 2010-05-05T17:45:00Z “That was also a point for me, that I’m not a salesman, I’m an actor.” Nicolas Cage faces off with a new foe: Himself 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z A women’s pants salesman comes to Hollywood and jumps into the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel, drawing the attention of an A-list actress. Robert Evans, a Maverick Producer of Hollywood Classics, Dies at 89 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Her father was an alcoholic travelling salesman, who died when she was young. Betty Garrett obituary 2011-02-13T18:19:53Z Who: Ashley Butler, Freshman, Illustration I wanted the figure to represent a salesman, struggling and appearing from this dark mass. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z When you refuse to let the car salesman intimidate you. Stop telling single women they’re fabulous! 2014-02-05T13:00:00Z "That was really affecting in real life, the way they were like a traveling salesman or something." The Carpetbagger: 'Argo' and the Workaday C.I.A. Officer 2012-12-21T17:40:17Z But as any good salesman will tell you, hustling customers is a numbers game. Financing the Hand That Slaps (or Nibbles) You 2011-04-16T02:33:01Z Rap music’s loudest and most radical polemicists were also its most effective salesmen and branding experts. ‘Rap Tees’ Catalogs Two Decades of Hip-Hop Merchandising 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Many of the early releases are available as e-books for a free 90-day trial, and Round Table now has a full-time salesman reaching out to traditional comic-book retailers — with "surprising" results. Comics: 'The Art of War' as a graphic novel 2011-04-26T21:08:04Z “I think I’m a salesman. I could sell you Kevin Smith all day. Not a lot of people are buying any more, but enough are where I still get to do this.” Director Kevin Smith on heart attacks, happiness, extreme weight loss – and Weinstein 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z “Now I can go to the general store,” his old-timey shop adjoining the two-story restaurant that plays up Franklin’s former life as a toy salesman. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The two play old-fashioned salesmen who, after their company goes under, apply for summer internships at Google—and get them. Fact Check: How Real are the Internships in The Internship? 2013-06-05T09:45:19Z When Addie knocks on Louis’s door, he knows her only as the widow of a local insurance salesman. Kent Haruf’s posthumous novel offers a tender look at love in the twilight 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z “Let me see what I can do — I can make a call,” the salesman says, and “If there is one thing I never want to do, it is make anyone feel pressured.” I Was Misinformed: I Was Misinformed: The Breakup Bed 2012-10-15T19:07:39Z He worked a series of jobs from car salesman to taxi driver to barber and janitor before beginning to preach in 1969. BeBe and CeCe and the DNA of gospel 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z They drive a Bentley to a watch store where Bryan tells the salesman,“I like black.” and Rachel smiles, “Oh really?” and then they make out in front of the poor salesman. The Bachelorette Recap: Season 13, Episode 7 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z |
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