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...group of Soviet and Alaskan businessmen, in the meantime, have come to town proposing to build what they are calling Perestroyka Palace, a park for disco, diplomacy and dealmaking. Plans call for an $18 million palace modeled after St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square, linked symbolically to an Alaska mining- and trading-company post by a bridge over a man-made reproduction of the Bering Strait...
...show's popularity is no mystery. Northern Exposure is less a realistic picture of Alaskan life than a big-city yuppie's romantic small-town fantasy. There is no bigotry or narrow-mindedness in this small town; the residents are all closet highbrows. The townspeople read D.H. Lawrence and quote Voltaire; the local tavern plays Louis Armstrong and Mildred Bailey on the jukebox. For Joel there's a cute, available brunet (Janine Turner) and a philosophical Native American pal (Darren E. Burrows) who is conversant with movies like The Wages of Fear. Gosh, it's not even that cold...
...towners is more subtle but just as annoying. One episode makes snide fun of the tavern owner's 19-year-old girlfriend, who gets a satellite dish and becomes addicted to tacky TV fare like Wheel of Fortune and the Home Shopping Network. God forbid somebody in a remote Alaskan town should actually pass the time watching TV. What would Voltaire think...
When Alaska Governor Walter Hickel was elected last November as the candidate of the Alaskan Independence Party, nobody expected him to do much to further its secessionist platform. Nobody, that is, except a vocal faction of the tiny fringe party. Angry that Hickel has not done enough to detach Alaska from the U.S., the group is mounting a campaign to have Hickel and Lieutenant Governor Jack Coghill recalled from office, charging that their nomination was illegal...
...best they could hope for in a war zone was to protect a few key spots. "We learned in the Exxon Valdez cleanup that you can't control the oil but you can exclude it from a small area," says Randy Bayliss, a consultant involved in the Alaskan effort...