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...pictures of 60 years of election-night drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burris Denied His Seat as the Senate Drama Continues | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...Senate's swearing-in ceremony for the nine incoming freshman who have secured their places is continuing as planned. But all the attention of the day has been focused on the drama of Burris' rejection from the Hill and the other elephant not in the room, Al Franken, whose squeaker victory by 225 votes was certified Monday by the Minnesota Canvassing Board (though Franken is still ensnarled by legal challenges from GOP incumbent Norm Coleman). "The Democratic Party is now running all three rings of the governmental circus, and a clown act has appeared in one of the rings," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burris Denied His Seat as the Senate Drama Continues | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...pictures of 60 years of election-night drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burris Denied His Seat as the Senate Drama Continues | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...pictures of 60 years of election-night drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burris Denied His Seat as the Senate Drama Continues | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

This unease was a handsome fit for serious drama in the early Atomic Age. When the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. both had The Bomb, what was the point in pretense or courtesy? Pinter's quietly murderous insolence was the theatrical equivalent to Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging at the United Nations. Good manners were the creamy lie the great powers poured on the toxic gruel of their realpolitik. The only counteroffensive was to write plays in which people misbehaved, tortured each other; for the postwar generation, writing what the Cambridge Review called his "skull-beneath-the-skin" plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

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