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America's best-loved curmudgeon offers a new collection of pithy insights on whatever happens to be on his mind.
The whiny, white-haired leprechaun who dispenses cranky advice on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes as if his bromides about life's minor annoyances are raw pearls of wisdom will entertain his fans with this latest assemblage. Rooney, author of four previous books, has fun with easy targets such as the decline of romance, dull textbooks, the U.S. postal service, the dearth of good conversation, unwanted Christmas gifts and the Miss America contest. He skewers Americans' suspicious stance toward the Soviets (``I never met a Russian as mean and macho as Rambo'') and pinpoints the use of sexist language (``No men ever get wed in the New York Times , just women''). Rooney has a knack of talking out of both sides of his mouth when discussing topics such as the arms race, student protest, global eco-catastrophe and the animal rights movement. Ambling from class reunions to credit cards, dogs, cats and the joys of spring in the city, these calculatedly curmudgeonly pieces touch on phenomena with which almost everybody can identify. BOMC featured alternate. (Mar.)
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Debbie Denune
reviewed Not That You Asked... on August 09, 2019
Not That You Asked...
This is my second Rooney collection and find them largely whimsical, nostalgic yearning for a Norman Rockwell world. Curmudgeon that he might be, it is not exactly like reading the rantings of Archie Bunker. When he bemoans the urine-stained Grand Central Station overrun with homeless, he reflects on the difficulty of the situation and lacking in severe judgment hopes for a solution with homes for the homeless and GCS back to travellers of his ilk. Then, sometimes he makes me cringe. From his column "Some Don't Like It Hot", published in The Eunice News from Eunice, Tuesday, May 27, 1986 and elsewhere:
There is no question that the whole human race gets less done where the temperature is regularly above 80 degrees. Look at the world and see where most good things have been accomplished. In Pago Pago? In Tahiti? In Calcutta or the Philippines? They may be nice places to visit but for the men and women who have advanced our civilization, look toward countries with temperate climates. Heat saps ambition.
Seems rather dismissive of everything from the rapa nui of Easter Island to Polynesians populating the vast South Pacific with outrigger canoes...
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