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...liberal friends love to theorize about what "false consciousness" drives rural Southerners to vote in opposition to their class interests. "The Democrats are the party of the common man, right? Why don't those rednecks vote for us? Ah, it must be the racism...
...Ah, yes. The Head of the Charles. It just doesn't get any better than this...
...Ah, but the stability-impaired wordsmith we met 15 years ago in author Friedman's earlier novel About Harry Towns is still frisky, still foolish. Still capable, in fact, of careering into a writers' bar in lower Manhattan wearing, because of a recent mugging, only a sheet, and this early in a long evening. Friedman is funny and reliably irrelevant. Writing, he seems to be saying, is less dignified than the mail-order truss business, which is a truth on which to hang your...
That Mobuto has been asked to speak, however, is not much of a surprise. The Washington Post reported that for all of Mobuto's faults, "he is, diplomats say, an unusually gracious, attentive and generous host" to those who visit him in Zaire. Ah, what style, what grace; how good it is to have a man of the world in a position of power...
...Ah, the growl. The exhaust note, as you wind the little, high-revving, 116- h.p. engine up through five gears, sounds like one-fourth of a Ferrari. Or, memory says, like an old MG-TC or Porsche Speedster. Which is to say, cunningly tuned to bring a grin but not a police cruiser. This is true, more or less, of the Miata's performance. Steering is solid and very quick; cornering is flat, without sway or slosh; and straight-out acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.6 sec.) is brisk but not pavement scorching...