Word: footstep
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...addition to supporting Perry, Giuliani has planted a Texas-sized footstep in the Lone Star State-now with three more Electoral College votes than New York. Last spring, he became a name partner in a Houston law firm, Bracewell and Giuliani, noted for its Bush connections and roster of major energy clients...
...himself--vulnerable, vain, afflicted with bad habits and perpetually defending his sacred right to self-destruct in peace. Compared with him, Woody Allen is a rock of psychological stability. In one of his best essays, A Plague of Tics, Sedaris recounts his obsessive-compulsive youth as a ritual footstep counter and doorknob toucher. Unlike the urban neurotics of the Allen school, he's a boy from the suburbs whose pH balance has gone acidic. Sedaris is gloriously bratty. Current events and politics don't interest him; he's a born consumer with no regrets, whose highest concerns are his wardrobe...
Mark Fish, as the callous, sexually insatiable, unspeakably cruel Gomez sets the action rolling. He packs incalculable arrogance, sneering and self-satisfaction into every swaggering footstep. Fish balances deft comic timing with a chillingly impassive sadism...
...characters' names--or more aptly, their numerals--to the dated capsules they wear around their neck as reminders of their limited lifespans, the play focuses relentlessly on the passage of time. And if these tangible elements aren't enough to remind the audience that death is just a footstep away, the characters' conversations--which, at least in the first half, transpire in brief vignettes--are ample evidence of Canetti's preoccupation with his own mortality...
...think that ends it? Or is there yet one more terror lurking in the shadows? Listen. What was that noise? Did you hear a footstep? There is nothing we can do. The house shakes, the dishes rattle, and our hands tremble on the door knob. Come in, gentlemen. Another election year - already...