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...Friday, Democrats who had begun to line up behind the Gore cortege actually heard a heartbeat when the Florida Supreme Court sent the counters back to work. Now it looked as if Gore's intricate legal case might be reducible to four words: "I got more votes." Party headquarters was suddenly flooded with calls from Democrats, entire congressional staffs, offering to jet down to Florida to help oversee the recount. "I was back in business," said campaign manager Donna Brazile. That night was the "first time I slept without a Zantac" since the election...
...sequences, comes to full circle at the end of the play. Though the show is traditionally cast as all male, Janiak and Kalappa don't even make gender an issue. Instead, the narrators aid to the ensemble nature of the play, most evident in its closing minutes. A throbbing heartbeat, a single spot and green sidelights illuminate Wilde as he grovels for mercy though he has done nothing wrong. The full cast, a phrase at a time, relates Wilde's The Balland of Reading Gaol, a story of one whose heart was pure but who suffered at the hands...
Five more toasts followed, concluding with the wish "May peace, liberty and order extend from pole to pole." Then the revelers went off into the night with only the faintest notion of what they had planted--the beginnings of an institution that would be the heartbeat of the greatest, most powerful and enduring democracy on Earth...
...case in point is the first track, "Everything in its Right Place," which, contrary to what the title suggests, is a gentle-sounding, amorphous mass of pipe-organ, electronic speech manipulation and heartbeat-like pulse pierced by Thom Yorke's familiar wail...
Whenever he leaves home now, even for a brief shopping trip by wheelchair or to see a relative, his most valuable possession is his one-page do-not-resuscitate order, which ensures that all life-sustaining treatment will be withheld in the event his heartbeat or breathing stops. "Because it's signed by a doctor, health workers tend to honor it more reliably than a living will that has similar instructions," explained his hospice nurse JoAnn Shenk...