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Very suddenly, Ben is home from possibly the strangest theater or operations of the war--a two-man weather station in the South Pacific--and has made his bet with Death. The South Avenue Rovers, shorthanded because of a bus accident, are playing the Dead Knights. Willie has moved in on his brother's old girlfriend, the sleazy, vindictive Marsha. Hal, called away for a classified defense assignment that has almost broken Helen's heart, is on his way home in a plane with no gas. Joe "Iron Man" McGinnity of the New York Giants is up, and a girl...
Unfortunately, the strategy failed, and set up the strangest goal of the season...
...must, they thought, be a gift from the gods. But this glass icon brought with it the compulsions of civilization: greed, jealousy, rancor. So the family patriarch determined to take the bottle to the end of the world and drop it off. On his journey he saw the strangest things: beasts with round legs (Jeeps), and a female with strange skins on her back (the village schoolteacher), and a squad of shiftless African guerrillas. The gods must be crazy...
THERE'S A DEATHWISH in this movie. From the opening scene, in which the protagonist Morgan Hiller (James Spader) narrowly averts decapitation by a slashing car aerial, to the final fight, involving everything from dart guns to fireaxes, the smell of blood hangs heavy in the air. And the strangest aspect of this adolescent brinksmanship is its complete premeditation--every character consciously seeks out dangerous situations and harrowing relationships...
Last night Walt Whitman had the strangest dream. There he was, staring out his bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy...