Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin · Forty Years of Funny Stuff by Trillin, Calvin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Author’s Note Biographically Speaking

Chubby Geography Spelling Yiffniff Doing My Talent People in Charge Cow Town My Tuxedo

The Media—Liberal Elite and Otherwise

Corrections On the Assumption that Al Gore Will Slim Down if He’s Intending to Run for President, a Political Reporter Is Assigned to Watch Gore’s Waistline Presidential Ups and Downs “Whatta We Got for the Folks This Week?” We Could Have Made a Killing RSVP Unpublished Letters to the Ethicist Show and Tell-all

Tales of A Clean-Plate Ranger

Alice What Happened to Brie and Chablis? Chicken à la King Missing Links Goldberg as Artifact Inspecting the Cork The Italian West Indies Unhealth Food

High Society and Just Plain Rich People

Errands Thoughts on Power Neckwear The Tweed Curve The 401st Invasion of the Limo-Stretchers Dinner at the de la Rentas’

Criminal Justice, Criminals, Justices, But (Probably) No Criminal Justices

Crystal Ball What Whoopi Goldberg (“Not a Rape-Rape”), Harvey Weinstein (“So-Called Crime”), et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage over the Arrest of Roman Polanski Marc Rich and Me Rodney King Sings the “Picked Up by the Los Angeles Police Department Blues” The Inside on Insider Trading Four Supreme Court Nominations Damaged Goods The Sociological, Political, and Psychological Implications of the O. J. Simpson Case

Life Among the Literati

T. S. Eliot and Me Paper Trials Half an Oaf Mencken’s Mail Answer Man Publisher’s Lunch

Madly Making Money

New Bank Merger An Outtake from Antiques Roadshow Dow Plunges on News of Credit Crisis in the United Arab Emirates The Alice Tax Economics, with Power Steering Basic Economics Wall Street Smarts Voodoo Economics Up Close All Puffed Up Embarrassment of Riches Two Poems on Goldman Sachs

The Years with Navasky

Ambushed Pinko Problems The Case of the Purloined Turkey I’m Out of Here Inspired by Sununu. Paid by Navasky.

Twenty Years of Pols—One Poem Each

John Sununu Al Gore Bill Clinton Lloyd Bentsen Steve Forbes Richard Lugar Pete Wilson Robert Dole Alfonse D’Amato Richard Nixon George W. Bush John Ashcroft Dick Cheney Richard Perle Colin Powell Tom DeLay Condoleezza Rice George Allen Donald Rumsfeld David Vitter Mike Huckabee Rudy Giuliani Dennis Kucinich John Edwards Michael Bloomberg Fred Thompson Mitt Romney Phil Gramm John McCain Michelle Obama Sarah Palin Rod Blagojevich Arlen Specter Barack Obama John Boehner Chris Christie

NYC

Curtain Time The Co-op Caper An Attack Gecko Testing Grounds What’s the Good Word? Tourists Trapped Social Questions from Aunt Rosie Tepper Parked in Front of Russ & Daughters

Family Matters

Naming the Baby Calvin Merger Incompatible, with One L Naming the German Baby Father’s Day Is Gone Stage Father Just How Do You Suppose that Alice Knows? Turning the Tables Slipcovers Just Bloom in the Spring, Tra La Hate Thy Neighbor Long-Term Marriage

Beasts Of The Field, Fish Of The Sea, And Chiggers In The Tall Grass

Loaded for Raccoons True Love Talk About Ugly! Animal Wrongs Horse Movie, Updated Weighing Hummingbirds: A Primer All the Lovely Pigeons The Playing Fields of Mott Street

English and Some Languages I Don’t Speak

Short Bursts Like a Scholar of Teenspeak Literally Roland Magruder, Freelance Writer Nerds, Dorks, and Weenies Holistic Heuristics I Say! Pardon My French

Bagels, Yiddish, and Other Jewish Contributions to Western Civilization

Seder Splitsville Killer Bagels So, Nu, Dr. Freud? Jacob Schiff and My Uncle Benny Daynovsky

The Sporting Life

My Team Baseball’s Back Chinese Golf On the Marketing of Yankee Grass The Great Game of Frizzball On Buffalo’s Losing the Super Bowl The Gipper Lives On

Science, Technology, and the Healing Arts

Molly and the V-Chip Benefit of the Doubt My Dentist Backwards Ran the Clock Smart Camera Ouch! Unplugged

Foreigners

Losing China Thoughts on Geopolitics Bonjour, Madame Without His Nurse Polite Society The Saudis and Their Oil Rigs Capturing Noriega

Issues and Other Irritations

Complicated Issues Letters to the Solid-Waste Commissioner I’m OK, I’m Not OK Back Where You Came From

Seeing the World

Defying Mrs. Tweedie Weak Dollar Blues Time and Tide Low Visibility Phone Pals

National Holidays

Eating with the Pilgrims Harold the Committed and Halloween Christmas in Qatar Iran for Christmas The Fruitcake Theory Oh Y2K, Yes Y2K, How Come It Has to End This Way?

Dedication Other Books by This Author About the Author

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