Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Patriot Richard Pombo leads the counter-revolution in Congress through his quest to save the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) from the unyielding torments of the liberal intelligentsia...
Mirkheim's plan is to make a movie of the best-selling self-help book Daniel Strong, which requires that he finagle production rights from its shady author, Dr. Waxling (Timothy Jackson). His quest leads him into a world of gore-obsessed receptionists, New York drug dealers, coked-up campaign managers and one very convincing, very scary stand-in for the Devil...
...last dozen years of Stevenson's life saw him wandering with amazing optimism, usually accompanied by his mother, Fanny and her children, and a long-suffering maid whom Fanny abused. The quest was for a climate his bleeding lungs and Fanny's vapors could tolerate. He tried Davos in Switzerland, Saranac Lake in New York State, a deserted mining camp above California's Napa Valley, and finally Hawaii and the South Pacific. His pattern was to write (and drink, converse, hike and sail) to exhaustion and illness; Fanny's was marital chess playing, countering his real collapses with her vividly...
This much and a good deal more is brilliant. Too bad such books need a plot, because mood and murk are what they're about. But they do, and what Noon comes up with, no surprise, is a Quest. Worked with Orpheus and Eurydice-why not? Scribble tries to retrieve his incestuously beloved kid sister Desdemona from one of those alternate worlds, with scenic but otherwise dim results. Vurt is a good try at great nonsense, and if someone doesn't use it as the basis for Son of Blade Runner, Hollywood isn't paying attention...
However, these are not false alarms or childish pranks being used to bring spectators down to Briggs Cage. All games are crucial in Harvard's (13-6, 5-2 Ivy) quest for an Ivy League title--especially this weekend's contests...