But Enough About You: Essays (60 page)

Rumsfeld, Donald,
28
,
190

Rushdie, Salman,
230
,
258

Russia/Soviet Union: and Afghanistan,
161
–62,
237
; and Brooks (Herb) pep talk,
438
; China and,
238
; collapse of,
164
,
435
; and Lenin’s corpse,
400
–403;
Sputnik
and,
149
; trust in,
420
–21; Vietnam and,
237

sacking, art of,
422
–25

SAT (Scholastic Achievement Test): about Japan,
374
–77

satire,
4
,
190

Saturday Night Live
(TV program),
145
,
161

Scalia, Antonin,
59
,
60

Schwarzenegger, Arnold,
169
,
203

September
11
, 2001,
48
,
223
,
428

sex,
233
–36,
250

Shakespeare, William,
227
,
310
,
311
,
312
,
313
,
315
–16,
385
,
424
,
431
–33

Shaw, George Bernard,
195
,
396

Shelley, Mary,
312
–13

Shields, Charles J.,
240
,
241
,
242
,
243

Simon and Schuster:
Catch–22
and,
259
–60

skiing: teaching child about,
357
–59

smoking: warnings about,
391
–93

Socrates,
370
–71

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr,
219
–21

Souter, David,
60
,
61

South Africa: Melocotón–Buckley trip to,
121
–24

Soviet Union.
See
Russia/Soviet Union

speeches: Buckley’s disastrous public,
4
–5; graduation,
25
–27,
363
–65

Spielberg, Steven,
274
,
410

spin:
New Yorker
cartoons about,
169

St. Clerans (Ireland): O’Moyne–Buckley trip to,
89
,
96
–97

Stalin, Joseph,
219
,
229
,
401
,
402
,
403
,
421
,
435

Stein, Gertrude,
331
,
332
,
334
,
336

Steinbeck, John,
266
,
268

Stephanopoulos, George,
6

Stevens, John Paul,
59
,
60

suburban crank: Buckley as,
54
–56

Supreme Court: “calendar” of,
59
–61; parking spaces for justices of,
61

Surratt, Mary,
184
,
186

Suzy Wong
(sailboat): Buckley’s summers on,
31
–34

Tango Telegram,
396

Taugwalder, Peter,
45
,
50
,
51

telegrams,
394
–400

Tenet, George,
372
,
373

Thank You for Smoking
(Buckley): movie of,
39
–43

Thanksgiving: at Buckley’s grandparents house,
38

Thomas, Clarence,
60

Thompson, Hunter S.,
262
–65,
299
,
322

Thurber, James,
249
–50,
289

Tiananmen Square,
164
–65,
238
,
239

Toklas, Alice B.,
331
,
332
,
334
,
336

tombstone, Buckley’s,
47

top-secret information: and Blair-Buckley relationship,
28
–31

Tour Monte Rosa: Buckley’s hike on the,
43
–54

Townend, Bill,
287
,
288

Trudeau, Garry,
27
,
264

Truman, Harry S,
80
,
82
,
305

Trump, Donald,
178
–80,
280
,
376

trust: Buckley’s comments about,
420
–22

Twain, Mark,
151
,
241
,
244
,
268
,
314
,
335
,
394

2000: apocalypse and,
245
–48

Uncle Sam (archetype),
392
–93

Updike, John,
270
,
289

Uris, Leon,
242
,
255

van Gogh, Vincent,
346
,
347
–48,
349
,
350

vice presidents: questionnaire for,
173
–75

Vidal, Gore,
8
,
221
–24,
282

Vietnam: Buckley’s trip to,
125
–30; China and,
237
; elitism and,
190
; gaffes about,
384
; Heller’s novels and,
242
,
257
,
258
; pep talk about,
429
–30; trust and,
421
–22; Vonnegut’s novels and,
242

Vishnu: Bush (George H. W.) as,
159
–67

Voice of the Caliphate
(Internet video newscast),
73
–75

Vonnegut, Kurt,
240
–44,
260

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: alarm clocks at,
148
–49

Washington, D.C.: during Lincoln’s time,
181
–87

Watergate,
383
–84,
421
,
424

Waugh, Evelyn,
9
–10,
213
,
256
,
281
,
282
,
287
,
288
,
289
,
294
,
397

Webb, James,
257
,
258

Weller, Sam,
264
,
267
,
273
,
274

Wellness, U.S. Department of,
191
–92

White House,
181
,
182
–83

Whymper, Edward,
45
,
46
,
49
–52,
53

Wilde, Oscar,
151
,
152
,
172
,
227
,
227
n
,
228
,
284
,
329
,
334
,
335
,
336
–39

Wodehouse, P. G.,
8
,
226
–27,
281
–90

Wolfe, Tom,
263
,
264
,
277

Wolfowitz, Paul,
372
,
374

Woodward, Bob,
166
,
362

World War I; Remembrance Day for,
140
–42

writers/writing: and “About the Author” paragraphs,
5
; book tours of,
5
–6,
210
,
211
,
215
; fans of,
9
–10; Heller’s views about life of,
261
; as humorists,
2
–4; and literary immortality,
274
; motivation of,
9
–12; narcissism of,
6
–9,
10
;
New Yorker
cartoons about,
168
; Thompson’s views about,
265
; as vain and sensitive,
6
–7.
See also specific person

Yale University,
38
,
190

Zagat Survey,
350
–54

Zambia: Melocotón–Buckley trip to,
118
–21

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Buckley, Christopher, 1952–

[Essays. Selections]

But enough about you : essays / Christopher Buckley.—First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

pages cm

Includes index.

I. Title.

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2013019392

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