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...status. But Kaufman's first work as a total auteur is his most daunting project yet: a portrait of a creative mind in artistic and emotional crisis, painted as a vast mural that encompasses 30-plus years, slips from mundane reality into nightmare fantasy, and is set (not counting side trips to Germany) in two New York State river cities 150 miles apart...
...overcrowded jail cells, slums and parched villages in which the blackest of deeds are committed. The most ambitious work, a historical drama chronicling the life of the 18th century Sufi poet Bulleh Shah (spelled "Bulha" in the play) grapples, in the words of one character, with the "dark side of the human self" - exile, fatwas, persecution, genocide. There's murder in The Third Knock, forced abortion in Acquittal, sex trafficking in Woman of Sorrow and extortion in Black Is My Robe. Even the most upbeat play, A Granny for All Seasons, about individual freedoms, is clouded by the dark legacy...
...paranoid places to begin with, so when you add the terrible pressures of the final days, it is little surprise that both candidates and their staffs are so jumpy. First, the campaigns are running out of time, which is their most precious resource. Second, by this point each side is totally consumed with rage at the various despicable maneuvers--both real and imagined--of its opponent. Finally, somebody is ahead and afraid to lose position, and somebody is behind and desperate to catch...
...what happens? Campaigns freak out at every rustle or stirring they hear coming from the eerie political forest. Each side is very quick to see a massive conspiracy behind every day's small kerfuffle. "Why is the poll dipping where we are now spending much more money on television ads? The other side must be making zillions of dirty phone calls under the radar. Quick, triple our nasty phone calls. And double up on the nasty!" This is the main reason campaigns go negative late in the game--when you see a demon lurking behind every shadow, it is only...
...biggest and scariest monster of all is the Frankenstein of Massive Voter Fraud. Both campaigns are so worked up about it, they are doing what worried campaigns always do: howling like banshees to the media. Each hopes to create a yowl of media attention that will prevent the other side from doing its worst, although each side assumes a level of villainy from the other that is probably more a product of final-campaign-week neurosis than reality. Still, each campaign is obsessed that the other will "steal" the election. In this paranoia, they are perfect dancing partners, since their...