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Up until a few weeks ago, the presidential campaign was marked by a deliberate effort at restraint--no insults, few attacks, an unvarying tone of stern politesse.
As for insight into any character other than Simon's, here are a few of Self's pearls, which he delivers with the I-don't-really-mean-it, yes-I-do exhibitionism of a Howard Stern.
1. Russ Johnson, amateur pinball historian, reacts to the news that WMS Industries is shutting down its assembly line, leaving Stern Pinball as the last manufacturer of the beloved game.
Other stories profile a superagent winning mammoth contracts for his baseball player clients, a rookie quarterback learning how to play the endorsements game, and NBA Commissioner David Stern, who micromanages the league's image, coordinating everything from media coverage to promotional "sock giveaways."
It symbolized American energy," writes Rudi Stern in his 1988 book, The New Let There Be Neon . A neon sign in the window also advertised the fact that a merchant was flush enough to have spent some coin.