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In one skit, O.J. and a friend are watching football on TV and Walter Payton is close to topping O.J.'s rushing record.
Topping the list is Bernard Schwartz, CEO of the defense contractor Loral, who gave a total of $661,000 to both parties.
The bars are high in calories, with the Experimental and Applied Science Myoplex Plus Deluxe Precision Nutrition Bar chocolate flavor topping the list at 340 calories and 7 grams of fat--not that far from a Snickers bar.
Topping the "board" list is The Education of Henry Adams , by Henry Adams.
"Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...