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Common nonsense /
Andy Rooney's Sunday evening observations on 60 Minutes are an American institution, shaping the way people see everything from coffee percolators to the state of the nation.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
©2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; 1. Daily Life in America; Do Not Put Book in Water!; The Unremovable Top; How to Save Time; Thanks a Lot for Nothing; The Truth about Lying; Smiling; No Clothes Make the Woman; Napping; Avoid These When Possible; Uneasy Chairs; Barns; Penmanship with an Accent; The Sound of Noise; Is It Sound or Noise?; Don't You Hate It When ...?; Gardeners Are Good People; Hot Air and Wind Chill; The Third Best Month; Fall Has Sprung; "Happy Holiday" Doesn't Do It; Ashes to Ashes; Your Grandfather's Grandmother; Not Dying to Die; 2. Food & Drink, Health & Doctors
- Ne Bouvez Pas de l'EauHave a Good Breakfast; About Food; Thank You But I'm Not Hungry; Fruit; Packages in Packages; Through Thick and Thin with Diets; Death By Celery Stalk; The Better to See You With; Don't Touch Me!; When Do You Go To Bed?; 3. Politics; Baseball and Politics; A Vote Against Candidates; No More Mr. Nasty Guy; Black Man for the White House; Polled To Death; Telling It Like It Isn't; Better Television; Working the Government; Experience Going to Waste; There are Liberals and Conservatives; 4. Sports; The Triumph of a Sports Fan; Sports Rules; Quoth the Raven, "Baltimore!"
- Coaches Need CoachingMusical Chairs in Sports; College Names; Know Your Football Phrases; Golf or Tennis?; Worst Award of the Century; Kentucky Not My Old Home; Hunting the Hunters; 5. Entertainment and the Arts; How to Watch Good Music; Art For Money's Sake; It Doesn't Have to Make Sense; He Wasn't Even a Hound Dog; Movies and Other Smut; It's a Disney World; Miss America; And the Winner Is!; 6. Learning; Proud to be Dumb; The Flat Earth in Kansas; The War for Education; Education for Education's Sake; Bigger Is Worser; Colleges; 7. Work Life And Success
- On Becoming a Better Person on PurposeOn Not Signing Autographs; No, Virginia, There Is No Santa Claus!; On Being Accepted at Yale; The Joy of Harassment; Annual Labor Day Essay; Time Is Not Money; I'm a Type, You're a Type; "Dear Sir: You're Fired!"; 8. The Writing Life; The Writer as Natural Resource; Hold the Commas; Pardon My English; Handwriting; In the Beginning-There Was a Writer; It's Not Funny; Financial Reporters Fail; Rewriting Shakespeare; 9. Home Life; Dreaming of a Dream House; To Each His Own-Bathroom; Washing as Entertainment; Shopping as Mental Therapy; To Save or Not to Save
- Fixing ThingsThe Dross of Drawers; A Great Pile of Piles; Vacation; The Old Oaken Chair; A Victim of Theft; A Not Very Grand Larceny; The Great Picking Up Problem; Things to Do Today; One Damn Birthday After Another; I Did But I Don't Anymore; Living With Your Face; Old; 10. Animals; Where Humans Fall Short; My Dog Is Smarter Than Your Dog; Horses, Horses, Horses; A Boy, a Bike, and a Cow; 11. Travel; Hometown U.S.A.; Airlines; Gracious Dining in Flight; Not Home; They Never Survey Me; Bad Drivers, Not Speed, Kills; Ticket the Slow Drivers; Seat Belts and Safety Caps; True Things about Cars