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We'll laugh again
- Title
- We'll laugh again / Art Buchwald.
- Author
- Buchwald, Art.
- Publication
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3503.U1828 W45 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 265 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- A critical and humorous examination of the 1990s considers such topics as the pharmaceutical industry, HMOs, tax cuts for the tobacco industry, reality TV, Bill Gates, cheating at MIT, and Viagra.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- humor.
- Humor.
- Humour.
- Contents
- After September 11, 2001 (We won't be young again ; Another day of infamy ; Scoundrels in our closet ; This way of life ; What's funny ; Big spenders wanted ; It's only a film ; Football is not the same ; Herb ; Mixed signals ; Watch thy neighbor ; Stick 'em up ; The home front answer man ; Time for good news ; A real celebrity ; Security vs. freedom ; Rumors of war ; Anothe scare) -- Before September 11, 2001: pt. 1. (Will Bill interfere? ; The day of chutzpah ; Spray me ; Made in the U.S.A. ; A pill collector ; Winner take all ; Vacations go to the dogs ; Mr. President, Jr. ; Murder, she said ; The final test ; Kidnapping made easy ; Charge me ; Dinner is served ; Pardon me ; Hugging never hurt ; The first eighteen days).
- pt. 2. (Matchmaking in Washington ; Retraining for all ; War games ; Live a little ; On the street ; Don't sit under that apple tree; Where the money is ; What honor code? ; Adolph the Great ; I'm glad you asked ; Expert witness ; Law-abiding what? ; What they don't tell you ; The rumor handlers ; Bell on the telephone ; The road to ruin ; Meals with wheels ; Smokers' lucky strike ; Suite revenge) -- pt. 3. (The quick and the dead ; Daddy Dumbest ; From here to Infiniti ; The pitch: hype and inside ; Vacation evacuation ; A poke in the nose ; The candidates ad-lib ; The upside of downsizing ; Every pothole has a sliver lining ; The ace of clubs ; A tankful of liquid capital ; Hard facts about soft money ; A lust for politics ; Daddy's little drill sergeant ; The great portender ;Cuppa coffee ; Tell it like it is ; It's all legal ; Nearer my God ;Smoke in your eyes ; I do).
- pt. 4. (Questions, nothing but questions ; Wherefore art the Prez?; Break-in ; Belly-up ; Four score ; Where are my socks? ; Danger: reading materiel ; Viagra, the politically incorrect Pill? ; Armed and dangerous ; You'd better cooperate, or else ; High crimes and misbehavior ; Washington water torture ; From Charlton to "Chainsaw" ; Don't let the bedbugs bite ; It only hurts when I call the HMO ; Starr search: a fee for all ; A poor excuse for a leader ;To the moon, Ken! To the moon! ; When your friends are really bugged ; Santa, looking to close a sweetheart deal ; Surprise witnesses).
- pt. 5. (Even friendlier ; Trashing Virginia ; Bill Gates and me ; The polite police ; Surfing for pleasure ; Don't touch me ; House for sale ; Is there a doctor in the house? ; Time and time again ; Where are you, Norman Rockwell? : Health tips ; Why George can't read ; Road rage ; First Lady or else ; Millennium eve ; Millionaire fever) -- pt. 6. (Back to work ; Craps ; Tickets, please ; Ninety miles away ; Happy graduation ; Harry Pinckney Day ;Payback ; A great skier ; Layoffs ; Clinton sightings ; A trillion here, a trillion there ; Beautiful dreamer ; Keeping down with the Joneses ; Mean television ; The good guys ; Bye-bye, Jeffords ; Greenhouse gases ; Katharine Graham).
- ISBN
- 0399148922
- 9780399148927
- LCCN
- 2001057870
- OCLC
- ocm48544126
- 48544126
- SCSB-8853357
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library