Word: sell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SIAM MIAMI, by Morris Renek. The trials of a pretty pop singer who tries to sell herself and save herself at the same time. Astoundingly, she manages both...
Frankly designed for the three out of four golfers who never quite manage to break 100 for 18 holes, the solid balls have already captured 10% of a market that this year will sell 9,600,000 dozen balls for $61 million...
...compulsive need for some sort of great personal achievement-despite the odds against her in a field that is far from fastidious. Neither dumb enough nor callous enough to be a mere commodity, she is nevertheless badly equipped to deal with that old dilemma-how to sell yourself and save yourself at the same time. Sex equals money equals power seems to be a simple enough show-business equation. But even in this crocodile world, as Renek shows, personal feelings and gestures intruding at the wrong time suddenly shift the balance of power-a smile of appreciation at an inopportune...
...After the shirts appeared on the covers of Life and Newsweek, we thought a lot of kids would like to buy them if they knew where to get them," Kaplan said. "It's got to sell to someone, it's really cute," he added...
Well, crudely put, when people get to be thirty they sell out. Selling out means losing flexibility, committing yourself to immediate rather than transcedent goals. It's almost impossible to avoid selling out--so many things force the small time visionary into the prescribed mold. The mold slowly begins to harden and it gets more and more difficult for molded people to relate to the free flowing and unpredictable upstarts...