Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suburbs -- or to Saturn ("Everybody says it's gorgeous"). Perhaps they should visit Rekall Inc., a mind-travel company that offers "the memory of a lifetime": a microchip implant of images from a wonderful vacation. They could even buy someone else's memory. "Take a vacation from yourself," the salesman croons. "We call it the Ego Trip...
...from the stomping passion of Spanish flamenco. Under the Franco dictatorship, the dances were banned as subversive evidence of Catalan nationalism. But now, on Sunday afternoons, they are as ubiquitous as barbershop quartets at Iowa county fairs. "They're a sign of our identity," says Joan Anglada, a furniture salesman, pausing for breath...
Korean residents can apply for Japanese citizenship but often do not, charging that the subtle prejudices against them do not disappear. "Every day I face invisible barriers," says Hong Dae Pyo, a language-school director who contends that he was fired from a salesman's position when his employer discovered he was Korean. "If Japan accepted me as Hong Dae Pyo, I would naturalize tomorrow...
...years ago the salesman showed me [the "coed naked lacrosse t-shirts."] I didn't think they would go over. I thought they were too corny. I bought 50. They lasted two hours...
...have met guys like Joey O'Brien (Robin Williams) before, most recently in Tin Men. He is the scuzzball salesman of every consumer's nightmares. For him, selling is more than a job and less than an honorable passion; it is not unlike date rape, against which neither resistance nor entreaty is an effective countermeasure. In Cadillac Man, he is discovered pulling up to a stalled funeral procession, to see if he can unload a replacement hearse on the desperate undertaker. While he's at it, he takes a shot at selling the bereaved widow one of his luxury cars...