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...once overheard boasting to a friend, "I've read War and Peace." So we know Steve Martin is intelligent. Now we know he is intelligent in print. In these comic essays (most from the New Yorker), the voice is often that of the old stand-up Steve: a fellow less cool, less together--and thus funnier--than he thinks he is. Martin takes inspiration from prescription bottles, the Schrodinger's cat paradox and Marlon Brando on Larry King Live. The little gems come at a hefty price--87[cents] each ($1.17 in Canada!)--but are worth it for their expectation...
...flame-throwing challenger Linda Smith, a second-term Republican Congresswoman, has built a reputation for trashing money-grubbing colleagues whose spines drip into their shoes at the mere mention of campaign-finance reform. "When have I ever been obedient?" she was overheard asking an aide by telephone last week...
That effort was local. But a year later, trustees of SHOPA's charitable foundation began discussing a national school-supply program. One trustee suggested tapping into World Vision's Brother to Brother plan, which operates throughout the U.S. Some time later, World Vision's Robert Odom overheard Chicago school principal Tyson fretting that her students had no pencils for a citywide test. Odom called BTB in Tempe, Ariz., and urged them to start a school-supply program. "We've been talking to SHOPA for a year about this," he was told...
Larry blushes when he recalls the time he overheard a conversation between two girls in line, one of whom was buying five packs of Altoids...
...just minding my own business, ringing up this girl's sale when I overheard her friend ask her why she was buying so many Altoids." Apparently this girl wanted more than just fresh breath. A lot more. Even Larry's jaw dropped when the girl responded, "Because of the fellatio factor, silly." Oh yeah...