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Unfortunately, The Mosquito Coast (based on Paul Theroux's 1982 novel) is not a postcard. It is a movie, recording in painful detail the self-righteous Allie's trek toward a predictable tragedy, herding his long-suffering family before him as he goes. And though Harrison Ford offers a hypnotizing portrayal of a man covering despair with lunatic optimism, hysteria with bravado and rigid self-control, a fatal prejudice lingers in the audience: we do not want to spend a couple of hours with Allie here any more than we would if he were, heaven forfend, our next-door neighbor...
...randy wife Talon (Teri Garr) roams the farm looking for bedmates; his younger brother Kevin (Anthony Heald) takes a vow of celibacy to protest the killing of sperm whales; an adopted sibling named Tiffany (Valerie Mahaffey) embarks on a search for her real parents; and a mysterious stranger (Gregory Harrison) shows up with his own dark secrets -- not the least of which is why he never wears a shirt...
...then of course, no one intelligent would feel comfortable in a pit full of poisonous snakes. And Curt Sandburg is more of a bona fide archeaologist than Harrison Ford ever could...
...party strategists have watched the elections "close up," they have started hedging their earlier confident predictions. Democratic Pollster Harrison Hickman warned against complacent optimism, harking back to 1982, when "Republican money pulled the rug of success from under us." Said a G.O.P. honcho: "For us to hold on in the Senate, everything has to break perfectly in a lot of states." He added soberly, "I've never seen a midterm election in which everything breaks perfectly...
...Benjamin Harrison's household was afraid of the new electric lights and would avoid the switches. Result: lights often burned through the night. When the William Howard Tafts celebrated their silver wedding anniversary on June 19, 1911, the house, the trees, the bushes were festooned with thousands of electric lights, and 8,000 guests came from all over the nation. The Tafts loved it so much they did it again for the public the next night...