Word: rabbiting
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...Rabbit's retirement has put him out of touch with his family. He watches Judy "channel-surf," flip through the remote control without ever watching anything, as if she is on a different planet. He also cannot figure out what is wrong with his son Nelson, who is displaying the obvious symptoms of a drug addiction...
...until Rabbit and his wife, Janice, return home to Pennsylvania that he discovers some nasty truths. Nelson and an accountant dying of AIDS have been stealing money from the family Toyota lot to support their cocaine habits. One of his former lovers dies, and he has an affair with his daughter-in-law. Toyota eventually revokes their contract with the family business, and Rabbit learns that even his small town has to deal with drug problems, the Japanese invasion, and AIDS...
...even these unpleasantries do not harden Rabbit. "He had a hard time when we were younger giving up his dreams and his freedom but he seems at peace now," his wife reflects. Nelson, however, cannot comprehend his father's simplicity and ability to ignore real life. He tells his mother that he cannot think of life "like a big joke, like Dad does, as if the fucking world is nothing but a love letter from yours truly...
...face of entropy, Rabbit refuses to despair. He is never bored by the everyday details of his now-foreign culture. He remains fascinated by "The Cosby Show," "Roseanne" and by the television sportscaster (Ahmad Rashad) he calls the "black guy with froggy pop eyes...
...Rabbit is even awed by the ingredients on his favorite brand of corn chips. "Corn, vegetable oil, (contains one or more of the following oils: peanut, cottonseed, corn partially hydrogenated soybean), salt." These, of course, are all "absolutely nots" for an overweight, 56-year old man who just got out of the hospital for angioplasty. "Doesn't sound so bad," Rabbit says lackadaisically before eating the whole...