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Boil, boil, toil and trouble...at Jamaica Pond's One-Act extravaganza--"Sinister Acts: An Evening of Creepy Plays". Presented by the Open Door Theater, the spine tingling evening includes Larry Blamire's "The Ha'nt", Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", and Martin Epstein's "Mysteries of the Bridal Night". Performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. through August 27. Tickets are $8. Call 524-2980 for more details...
...that the PRI was there to stay. A second taxi driver with whom I spoke, for instance, explained that elections were really just a formality in the nation. "You think that we go and have a secret ballot election?" one asked me, "like you have in the north? Ha!" He said that in Mexico he had, in the past, written his vote on a piece of paper which disappeared into a cardboard box that he was convinced had ended up in the "basura", or trash. "Salinas will win," he said "even if no one votes...
...acolyte immediately recognized the dilemma. "I don't want to lie," he said, "but neither do I want to be beaten. What should I do?" The wise old philosopher, who is now no doubt a Presidential campaign consultant, replied, "Then you must only laugh and say, 'This boy! Ha Ha Ha! Look at this...
...turns out to be funnier than he is. The nation he has trod these 75 years, the framework for his antics, is itself a dark and serious comedy, simultaneously rejecting and accepting everything in its midst; a riot, a scream. Sometimes (rarely) Nixon laughs aloud. The gunshot laugh, the "Ha!" It is what Beckett designated as the risus purus: the laugh laughing at itself in the abysmal farce, in which every part is deadly ridiculous, every line as funny as a crutch...
...media go on about the 'undecided voter.' Ha! Undecided voter. That's bullshit. Believe me, people decide about politics early on. You take the average guy. You know? Sipping beer and eating his pretzels. He's worrying about who he should vote for? While I'm on it, there's another myth in politics: that the American people, in their wisdom, like to divide power. That's why they vote for Republicans for President and Democrats for Congress. Because they want a balance of power. You think the average guy says, 'Gee! I'm afraid of that...