The list includes three closed shows ("Betrayal," "Gore Vidal's 'The Best Man,' " "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe") as well as the current occupant of the Royale Theater, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
Similarly, if this campaign is, among other things, a referendum on the current occupant of the White House — as elections at the end of failed Presidencies inevitably are — then its outcome will be determined partly by whether voters find George W. Bush guilty of incompetence or of demeaning American politics.
Whether Sarah Palin is qualified to be president: "She has as much qualification as the current occupant of the White House".
"It was basically a nationalization of America's largest insurance company," writes the former leader of the political party that routinely labels the current occupant of the White House as a socialist.
Or convert the mayor's post from a salaried position to a license fee (let's say, a $150,000 per diem charge), thus simultaneously granting the city four years' steady income, as well as assuring the current occupant of an uncontested re-election this fall.
But as the polls turn increasingly in favor of the players' expressions, as Kaepernick's collusion case proceeds to a full hearing, and as the current occupant of the White House starkly demonstrates the dangers of enforced orthodoxy on the job, the country is learning why political liberty is as essential in the private workplace as in the public sphere.
Yesterday King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth II were honoured by the republic's leading theatre awards as The Audience, with Helen Mirren as the current occupant of Buckingham Palace, and Wolf Hall, in which Nathaniel Parker plays her wife-killing ancestor, received multiple Tony award nominations.
Its leaders have to show imagination and take risks, to be confident and aggressive, to proceed as if the current occupant of the White House no longer mattered — as if the Democrats fully intended to win and govern.
The supreme irony, of course, is that the current occupant of the White House touts that unlike almost all of his predecessors, as a captain of industry he brings sound commercial sensibilities to the Oval Office.
"This may come as a surprise to the current occupant of the Oval Office, but the president of the United States does not have the authority to unilaterally order the wiretapping of American citizens," said former Obama White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
