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Rabies is harder to spot than many people think; its carriers do not always appear to be crazed and menacing. In fact, they may seem tame or merely sick, inviting kindly passersby to make the potentially fatal error of coming to their aid. A bite or scratch is not absolutely necessary: two victims have picked up rabies in caves from breathing air contaminated by infected bats...
...young comic is doing a bit about his genitals when a cry comes from the crowd: "Hey! Hey! I'm really getting sick and tired of all this!" An earnest man in shorts runs up to the front of the room. "I'm just sick of all this blaspheming," he says, "all this talking about your genitalia...
...film may indeed rekindle that fervor. In its gaudy way, it could also remind audiences of important issues rarely addressed in movies: the estrangement of genius ("He is better at this," says Joe Mantegna as Fred, "than I've ever been at anything in my life"), the sick thrill of competition (a lesser player stares at Josh with craven awe) and the romance of failure. "Maybe it's better not to be the best," Josh says as the competition heats up; "then you can lose and it's O.K."The movie's subject is unusual, but its themes are universal...
...groundskeeper for the Sarajevo football team for 15 years before the war, but has not worked since the fighting began. His family survives on dwindling supplies from the U.N. "It just isn't enough," he says. "All we get is some flour, rice and oil. The children are sick all the time." He supplements the U.N. rations with grasses, mostly broadleaf weeds from surrounding hills that look a little like cabbage but, according to the children, taste much too bitter. They dip small pieces of bread into the unpalatable grass soup, eating only enough to stop their gnawing hunger...
...novel's action. And the failing of Operation Wandering Soul (aside from a surprisingly lame title) is that amid all its commotion, not much happens. Kraft and Espera try to have a romance, but they are too benumbed to make it work. Some of the hospital's sick children, not very convincingly, take a Pied Piper skit on tour. The author tells us that his hero is modeled after his own older brother, a surgeon, and sure enough, "Kraft" can be translated from German as power. The clue fits; despite mighty imaginings, the admiring younger brother has been too deferential...