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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rooney, Andrew A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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