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"A documentary that captures in detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Holy Word, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses, then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road."
26) Quijote
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Inspirado por la obra de Cervantes, Sam DuChamp, un escritor mediocre de thrillers de espías, crea el personaje de Quijote, un vendedor cortés y pasado de moda que vive obsesionado con la televisión y que está enamorado platónicamente de una estrella de la pequeña pantalla. Junto con su hijo (imaginario) Sancho, Quijote se embarca en una aventura a través de Estados Unidos para probar que es merecedor de la mano de su doncella, enfrentándose...
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"The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert...
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This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...