Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buffalo 1, New Jersey...
Hold on. The number on her jersey is not some power grab at now vacant Airness but an allusion to the most important person in Holdsclaw's life. It refers to the 23rd Psalm, the one that begins "The Lord is my shepherd," taught to her by her grandmother June, who's been closer than a mother since Holdsclaw was 11 and her parents divorced. "I told her when she was little, anything you want, ask Him," says June. The Psalm provides this provocative promise: "Thou anointest my head with oil." So there's more than crossing Jordan involved here...
...native of the New Jersey suburbs, Gandolfini, 37, was a latecomer to acting, but in the nine years since he committed himself to it, he has managed to deliver intensely layered performances that are devoid of the promiscuous emoting and, seemingly, of the cerebral prep work that can make more experienced actors' work--Al Pacino's in the '90s, say--less than what it should be. As Tony, Gandolfini is masterly at conveying the simmering rage beneath his character's humanity. He brings all the right sweaty fidgetiness to a man whose life demands that he take his daughter...
...constant search for an honor I might decline, I announced some years ago that I didn't want a service area on the New Jersey Turnpike named after me. It seems unlikely that the Turnpike Authority, which had honored a number of Garden State luminaries in that manner, would turn to an ordinary driver who is not from New Jersey, but I thought that nipping the idea in the bud was the sort of thing a prudent citizen did in preparing for his eventual demise. So I was surprised to learn last week that Joe DiMaggio--a man who raised...
...Highway. Even New Yorkers will cut a guy some slack sooner or later, and I like to think that they've never used the real name because they've been thinking, "O.K. Joyce Kilmer's poetry might have been so bad that he deserved to be memorialized on the Jersey Turnpike by unleaded regular and rest-stop cheeseburgers, but what could a man have done that was bad enough to deserve association with this...