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...best clue to what the country might be like without race as the nail upon which American identity is hung comes from Pap, in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, who upon learning a Negro could vote in Ohio, "drawed out. I says I'll never vote ag'in." Without his glowing white mask he is not American; he is Faulkner's character Wash, in Absalom, Absalom!, who, stripped of the mask and treated like a "nigger," drives a scythe into the heart of the rich white man he has loved and served so completely...
...anxiety about jobs that has made this week's House of Representatives vote on the North American Free Trade Agreement a nail-chewing Washington version of the Perils of Pauline. In itself, the pact that would allow free movement of goods and investments among Canada, the U.S. and Mexico would, it is thought, have only moderate immediate effects. Some U.S. jobs would be lost to low-wage Mexican competition, and some jobs would be created in American industries that would have an easier time selling their products in Mexico. But the numbers would be relatively small on both sides...
...barest requirements of narration. No. 10, They Were Very Poor, takes the elements of a Southern sharecropper's life down to the static minimum: a man and a woman staring at empty bowls on a bare brown plane, an empty basket hung on the wall by an enormous nail -- the sort of nail you imagine in a crucifixion. There isn't a trace of the sentimentality that coats Picasso's Blue Period miserablisme...
Dukakis rejected a questioner's suggestion that Clinton's popularity would suffer from narrow margins of legislative victory, like this week's nail-biting passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in the House...
...only sure thing is that it is going to put the last nail in the coffin for Mexican rural communities," he said. "The small farming communities will not be able to compete with the corporate large scale farms of Illinois and Iowa...