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...fluidity of the ensemble cast together enlivens the bare text of the play. Gorky allows the director a lot of leeway with respect to who talks to whom when six or seven characters are on stage. This production takes full advantage by creating eddies of conversation that alternately split and combine based on the context, adding texture to what would otherwise be a dry series of declamations...
...focus turned to five states--Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nevada and Oregon. Florida's 25 electoral votes became the decisive factor, as the other states split their support...
...presidential election terminating the Clinton years ends in the ultimate Clintonism - an astonishing tie, a masterpiece of delicately balanced ambivalence. We end by looking at a split screen, like one of those old campaign buttons that shows you one image (Gore) if you look at it from one angle and a different image (Bush) if you tilt it slightly. I seem to see Clinton enter smilingly upon the chaotic scene: "Say, if y'all really can't make up your minds, why don't we just - I mean, if it ain't broke...
...that this sublimely split decision is proof of the collective intelligence and sanity of the American electorate. Of course, either the Bush team or the Gore team will eventually be installed - unless they take a suggestion that I made months ago and effect a kind of giant corporate merger establishing for themselves a co-presidency, with one of them taking care of business in the Oval Office while the other presides over the sleek new corporate headquarters in someplace like Seattle or Portland...
Polls are still showing the race incredibly tight. Nearly every national poll shows Bush ahead--but within the margin era. Estimates of which candidate would win the electoral vote are essentially split...