Metropolitan Life

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I laughed out loud while re-reading Metropolitan Life - one of Fran's "sports" is "getting the mail. First time I got introduced to Fran Lebowitz was through Martin Scorsese’s Min-Series “Pretend It’s a City” (which I loved), and the series naturally (to me) made me interested in hearing more from her, so when I found that she wrote books, naturally (again, to me), I went ahead and bought them. 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. I found some of those essays amusing, some of which were primarily concepts followed by a lot of non-sequiturs, such as “ Food for Thought and Vice Versa” or “ Parental Guidance”, a lot of the others revolving around the need to supply a weekly essay to the magazine she was employed in at the time (Interview, then Mademoiselle, at the time, according to Wikipedia) and her inability to find a suitable subject for it, and none too memorable.

This has some extremely dated references, including jokes about est, but it's a window into a specific place and time. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. 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.A study of physical defects among school children in New York city (American child health association, 1934), also by American Child Health Association, New York (N. Obviously today's club kids, and what passes for today's urban "Hip Hop" youth are completely different. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. Slight handling wear, bookseller's small ink stamp to first page, mild marginal toning/spotting, faint remainder marks to bottom edge of book block, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy.

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I'm doing it more for the lovability of Frannie Lebowitz, than necessarily her laugh-out-loud funniness. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Mortality statistics of insured wage-earners and their families : experience of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Industrial Department, 1911 to 1916, in the United States and Canada (Metropolitan Life Insurance, 1919), also by Louis I. On a separate note, Fran Lebowitz could have been an excellent and a very memorable guest star on either Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm!

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. 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. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Easy book in plain English for the coming citizen (Printed and distributed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SELLER TO ANYONE WHO IS LOOKING FOR QUALITY PRODUCTS AND A PROBLEM FREE EXPERIENCE.