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...dinner took place in a room decorated with signs reading "Greater Opportunity Party" and "Friends Help Friends Vote Conservative." The event convened with a group recital of the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a meal consisting of salad, vegetables, steak and baked potatoes. A boom box played John Philip Sousa tunes as students talked about life as a conservative at Harvard...
Cultural Rhythms grooved for 120 minutes / "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" runs 3.83 minutes / Cooking time for rojak, a Singaporean/Malaysian salad 110 minutes / George Clooney's stint on ER 2,365,920 minutes / Cassat at the MFA for another 105,120 minutes / Gene Siskel's television career lasted 13,140,000 minutes / Time since last execution in Massachusetts 27,331,200 minutes / Average trolley ride to freshman formal 17 minutes / new Pudding show has been performed for 840 minutes / Girl Scout cookies can be delivered in 25,920 minutes / For an hour's worth of minimum wage ($5.25), a sweatshop worker...
...International homeopathic remedies? Got it. The Cheshire cheese to crumble into a mesculine-green salad? Oh, it's there. Starbucks latte to sooth the post-exam/second semester nerves while perusing a mini-bookstore of cheesy bestsellers? Yup. When entering Star for the first time, all troubles simply evaporate amidst the wafting scents of the fresh baked bread in the open air bakery. The huge store is an oasis of happiness; it is a whole new world where everything is possible and anything is edible. Half the store is a gigantic freezer filled with Ben and Jerry's ice cream...
...wrist. We fix each other in a longing gaze. The lights in the deli go out, and then, in the sweaty summer evening, with the red neon pastrami sign flashing in the window, we roll around on the checkered linoleum among the containers of cole slaw and potato salad with chives. In the morning we run off together to set up a new deli in New Delhi. That's the way men "think." What we say is, "No mayo, please...
Clinton's statement strikes me as an outdated model of the "melting pot" in which everyone who enters America can assimilate himself or herself into one, uniform identity. Other models have lately come into vogue: the "salad" model, for instance, in which different people can be tossed together in the same bowl without dissolving into one another. One of my friends likes to think of America as a "chunky soup:" Cultural sharing occurs, but the borders of individuals or groups remain intact, though permeable. Clinton's statement that immigrants should join "the mainstream," however, obscures these more recent (and better...