Dave Barry is not making this up Dave Barry (Fawcett, $10, 1994) Barry's best pieces-some of which are collected here-transcend the general run of humorous journalism. Not only does he make you laugh out loud, he demonstrates-with scientific rigor-that the rituals of our suburban shopping-mall culture are as weird and fearsome, in their own ways, as all the rites of the Druids, Hottentots, and whirling dervishes put together. A-


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