Evite forces even the best-hearted hosts and guests into predator-prey, salesman-mark roles.
Regus founder and onetime hot dog salesman Mark Dixon envisioned Regus' short-term office centers being as ubiquitous as McDonald's; the market seemed to agree, sending shares up to $6.60 and making Dixon a billionaire.
What Trump U conmen, err, salesmen, told the marks, err, customers.
But likening our efforts to those of a salesman is wide of the mark.
Mr. Eickmeyer, a retired salesman, grew up with the mark and measured his life with what became one of the most respected currencies in the world -- and the most visible symbol of the success of a democratic Germany that grew out of the rubble of Hitler's war.
In the meantime a friendship -- cautious and filled with longing -- is growing between Esther and Mr. Marks (Corey Stoll), the Orthodox Jewish salesman she buys her fabric from.
So I have to decide whether I want door number one with the scary used-car salesman or the door with the huge question mark on it with roads spinning out into the unknown behind it.
Does he bite?" The salesman handed me a smart, yellow python bag marked $9,000.
Virtually all the seminal white postwar plays — "The Glass Menagerie," "Long Day's Journey Into Night," "Death of a Salesman" — revolve around the drama of American individualism; they mark a retreat from exterior into interior life.
On the Rue Président Carnot nearby, a merry-go-round was whirling and Spanish pottery was marked down for the occasion, as a salesman kept reminding everyone.
That's roughly $45,000 more than the previous high mark set by Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" in the spring of 2012.
