Metropolitan Life

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No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. After all, a person who might well spend an entire evening staring at a kitchen utensil has little to recommend him as a dinner companion. I read somewhere that the author was a cab driver when she was young, so it wasn't all Perrier and high-thread-count sheets for her. Fran Lebowitz has a wonderfully dry and irreverent way of looking at life; this is a favorite of mine and I recommend it.

Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth spine, gilt spine titles, orange boards, illustrated dust jacket, 177 pp. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Instructions to medical examiners of the Metropolitan LIfe Insurance Company. It was obvious to me, while listening to her in the film, that she is still writing whether she knows it or not; she is such a natural.Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Lengthening life through insurance health work: a study of the trends of mortality among policy-holders in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and in United States Registration Area, 1911 to 1919. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Preventing taxicab accidents : a report of a survey conducted by the National Association of Taxicab Owners in cooperation with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. This is a collection of Lebowitz essays that originally were published in Warhol's magazine, Interview and in Mademoiselle and all were written in the 1970's. For a long time after this book, there was excited, hopeful chatter about The Novel Fran Lebowitz was writing.

Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Read this when it first came out, because of a review in NYT Book review which, unfortunately, as so often, held at least half the best lines in the book. You don't have to be a New Yorker or even a city dweller to enjoy it, but a cynical outlook and no reverence whatever will help a lot. A witty, sometimes curmudgeonly, often helpful look at various fads, crazes, morals, fashions, and mores in America today ranges from comments on good weather to a pontifical guide for the truly ambitious. I guess I'm feeling nostalgic for that period of time, when everybody rubbed shoulders with everyone else, and people weren't so isolated and cloistered in their own little groups reaffirming their own little world view.She's one of America's most insightful social commentators, a sought-after public speaker, a style icon, wit and flaneur. I enjoy the idea of lying around all day reading magazines, though I doubt I could get anyone to pay me for that. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Easy book in plain English for the coming citizen (Printed and distributed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: The welfare work of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for its industrial policy-holders and employees.In these essays, Lebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to everything from children ('rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money'), to novelty ice cubes ('flowers belong in one's lapel, not in one's bourbon') and landlords ('it is the solemn duty of every landlord to maintain an adequate supply of roaches'). Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Twenty-five years of health progress; a study of the mortality experience among the industrial policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 1911 to 1935 (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1937), also by Louis I.