Word: possessionless
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...parents drive a Volvo, his golden retriever goes to doggy school, and his kid brother watches video-cassettes all day. Yet there's a void in Danny's life. At some point in his golden youth, something snaps--he trades in his already paved road to success for possessionless servitude in a cult. Michael O'Keefe--the blue-eyed actor last seen as the disturbed son in The Great Santini--does a fine job portraying the troubled Danny. Yet his precarious insecurity, although true to life, becomes unconvincing in the context of some of the movie's other, more outrageous...
...like a ripe mango, walks out on him. By now, Rantz finds that he has outsmarted himself. In his loneliness he rediscovers that over-Donne island truth: no man is an Hand, intire of itselfe. In his new humility he goes to the other side, finds that the powerless, possessionless exiles are living life as it was before the fall. Everything belongs to everybody; greed, hate and fear are gone with the trade winds, and love is as free as coconuts. This is for Rantz. Joyously he explains his bag of tricks-which may or may not symbolize civilization...
...untypical is this possessionless reader that, during the past year, American and foreign business bought 4,430 pages of advertising in TIME'S international editions...
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