Metropolitan Life

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By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 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.

Top edge of rear board has a small bump; otherwise, normal shelfwear with previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper. For a long time after this book, there was excited, hopeful chatter about The Novel Fran Lebowitz was writing. Crease on front fly, boards lightly rubbed, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with modest edgewear and a slightly sunned spine.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: 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. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved. Based on the Mini-Series, I would say I kind of knew what I’m signing up for, which was not far off from what I read in this book, not at all. The Wonder Bread, softly unobtrusive, the perfect foil for both the richly poignant Superchunky Skippy and clear, fragrant Welch's grape.Fran's first-person voice mixes ego-centric, 1970s swagger with an underlying sense of alienation, setting the stage for her timeless, sardonic wit and biting social commentary. Compilation of texts written for several columns, this is a book full of humorous chronicles, where sarcasm and irony are used to perfection. She's one of America's most insightful social commentators, a sought-after public speaker, a style icon, wit and flaneur. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: The Metropolitan life insurance company ; its history, its present position in the insurance world, its home office building and its work carried on therein. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.

Bound in black cloth over orange boards, stamped in gold in bright orange and yellow (first state) dust jacket that shows one minor diagonal crease to black flap. Lebowitz clearly has a witty, frequently snarky voice but I found most of it only mildly entertaining or interesting to read. I still think she's very clever and represents a certain urban social strata that's, today, lost forever. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Report of the Committee to study visiting nursing instituted by the National organization for public health nursing at the request of the Metropolitan life insurance company.

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I read this book when I was about 12 years old and immediately decided that when I grew up I wanted to be Fran Lebowitz. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. Nothing remarkably funny or insightful, Metropolitan Life struggles to find that sweet spot between comedy and commentary. 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. 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.

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