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Death of a Salesman is also part of a strictly American canon -- and again, I said "world stage" as in it is an play frequently produced in translation.
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There's surprisingly little naivete in Salesman, and not a rube in sight.
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Confessions of a Car Salesman is a 8 part article written by a journalist posing as used car salesman.
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Confessions of a Car Salesman is a 8 part article written by a journalist posing as used car salesman.
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Bourjaily: A Good Gun Salesman is Hard To Find | Field & Stream
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Bourjaily: A Good Gun Salesman is Hard To Find | Field & Stream
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Loden punctuates her character’s fatalism by lingering on bland, ’60s mid-American landscapes — many of which reminded me footage in the documentary Salesman from the same time period.
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But even though it's only a few months old, the Garrick belongs to the time when the Camel smoke rings were still puffing over Broadway and a cup of coffee cost a dime at the automat – the era, in fact, of Death of a Salesman, which is playing at the Eugene O'Neill Theater next door.
Sneaking Over to the Garrick for a Toast to Arthur Miller 1999
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If Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman was the classic American tragedy about a man with nothing to sell but a smile and a shoeshine (and about the honor of an honest day's effort), Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross updates the futility of the American dream (and the delusion that there's any good at all in mankind).
Seattlest Ronald 2010
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If Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman was the classic American tragedy about a man with nothing to sell but a smile and a shoeshine (and about the honor of an honest day's effort), Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross updates the futility of the American dream (and the delusion that there's any good at all in mankind).
Seattlest Ronald 2010
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