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Royko is at his best, like Mencken, when he is lampooning the social conventions and pretensions of the small set. In "Crisis in a Cool High Rise," he conducts a mock dialogue with "a modern young High Rise man," a different specie, who cannot picture life before air conditioning: "But what about people who were living together. You mean they would be in bed and both would be sweating?' Why yes. 'How uncool. Didn't your hairspray get gummy?" He pokes fun at exercise fanatics as well. When he interviews real people, the results are sometimes even funnier, as when...
...tell one of his most affecting campaign stories. "My father died, and my mother raised the last three boys, and I was one of them," he said. "And she put every dime she had into her kids . . ." A group of Reagan supporters in the balcony moaned "Awwww" in mock sympathy...
...family homes. On the Sunday before the debate, a sermon resisted change through severe warnings against the twin evils of abortion and recreational sex. "Think about it when you go to vote," admonished the priest. Parishioner Judy Tren-kamp, a photocopier operator, lives with her son in a mock-Tudor house next to the railroad tracks. "Half of this parish is out of work," she shrugs. "I wanted Ferraro to trounce Bush...
...three contestants--Gilbert Fuchsberg '85, Daniel P. Oran '87 and Gary D. Rowe '88--and folk singer/Mondale activist Paul Shea received as prizes mock welfare checks, food stamps, and a handful of jeffy beans...
...races. An unusually big weekday crowd (12,666) came to Keeneland to watch her and the horses. "She's darling," pronounced Lori Wykstra, a retired nurse. "I didn't see anything dowdy about her." Inside the wood-paneled Keeneland pavilion, the Queen watched a mock yearling sale-cum-Thoroughbred quiz show, all staged for her amusement: the M.C. described only the horses' pedigrees, while the visitor and her entourage guessed at the identity of each animal. Later, mingling a bit with the groundlings in the grandstand after the $100,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge, she chatted with...