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...Finally, I just got bored," says Baker. "I had done enough reporting. I began to feel like Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, carrying that typewriter in one hand and that suitcase in the other and a dirty old raincoat into one more hotel lobby. It came to seem that this wasn't a worthy way for a grown man to spend his life. You have good seats, sure, but you're always on the sidelines. You're not making anything. Auden has a wonderful essay?it's in The Dyer's Hand?about how young people want...
Like Willy Loman, Jimmy Carter went on the road last week, hoping to be not only liked, but well liked. In Atlanta, he met with some 100 prominent Jews who had been flown in by the Carter campaign. He asked for their help and their advice, reiterated his strong support of Israel, and added a new line that roused great applause: "Israel did not cause the Palestinian problem." Carter also did well at a meeting with 400 people arranged by the New York Board of Rabbis, though there was still some holding back. While in New York, he gamely appeared...
...Delighted. Reagan stubbornly refused to acknowledge that he had taken a drubbing in Florida, though many experts figured that he, like Willy Loman, had little left except his smile and a shoeshine. Lounging on a bed in blue slacks and a black-and-white check pajama top, Reagan watched the returns on TV at the Sheraton Hotel in Rock Island, Ill. When Ford's victory was certain, Reagan changed into a blue suit and blithely bounded into the coffee shop to tell reporters: "We're all delighted. We've challenged an incumbent who has thrown the whole...
Died. Lee J. Cobb, 64, growly, explosive actor who triumphed on Broadway as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman and in over 40 years appeared in more than 80 films; of an apparent heart attack; in Los Angeles. Born Leo Jacoby in New York City, in 1935 Cobb joined Manhattan's Group Theater where he appeared in Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy. Cobb was acting in Hollywood films when Director Elia Kazan sent him a copy of a new Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, and an offer of the starring role. He accepted...
Scott's monumental performance added a new and powerful dimension to this classic and revealed aspects of Willy Loman never seen before...