I got the audiobook version (the publisher combined this and Social Studiesto make The Fran Lebowitz Reader).

This book is a collection of shot essays, social commentary, funny and observant enough to make you appreciate that behind the pen, there is a smart woman, with an admirable sense of wit and a balanced disdain for LA. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Welfare work for policy-holders : conducted by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth spine, gilt spine titles, orange boards, illustrated dust jacket, 177 pp. 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.Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Here’s a line from one of the stories: “A small band of exiled Cubists took over the Great Rotunda in the Capitol Building in Washington DC, and threatened to set it on fire unless the entire city was broken down into its basic geometric forms. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Non-participating premium rates together with tables of loan and surrender values. It’s about artist groups from different movements who take over buildings (sometimes with hostages) and their demanded ransoms are that their manifestos be enforced. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.

The Studio 54 crowd of the late 1970s, that Andy Warhol/Fran Lebowitz came out of, were some of the most dynamic, artistic, edgy, intellectuals ever.

Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature I had better ring for breakfast. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: An epoch in life insurance, a third of a century of achievement; thirty-three years of administration of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. For instance, “Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

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. Compilation of texts written for several columns, this is a book full of humorous chronicles, where sarcasm and irony are used to perfection.This first softcover edition was published five months after Dutton's first hardcover edition and precedes the 1980 UK edition as well as the 1982 Ballentine Book edition. I'm old enough to remember mood rings and CB radios, but they wern't all that funny then, and they are definitely not funny now. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: The child, printed and distributed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for the use of its policy-holders. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1928), also by Grace T.

Some crinkling to first few pages and some minor offsetting to front endsheets, but a most acceptable copy of the true first edition of the author's first book.The Wonder Bread, softly unobtrusive, the perfect foil for both the richly poignant Superchunky Skippy and clear, fragrant Welch's grape. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Causes of death by occupation : occupational morality experience of the Metropolitan life insurance company, Industrial department, 1911-1913. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Addresses delivered at the triennial conventions and managers' annual banquets of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: A health census of Chelsea neighborhood, 14th to 42d streets (Metropolitan life insurance company, 1917), also by Louis I. Join us for Likely Stories every Thursday featured during Morning Edition and All Things Considered with encore airings Saturday and Sunday during Weekend Edition.