Word: juneau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smell the skim latte and discover that nothing has really changed other than the start of a new tax year and that meanwhile we're stuck with 500 cans of Bumble Bee chunk white and enough batteries to power that annoying bunny from New York City to Juneau and back, there are bound to be existential consequences...
...example, the Juneau, Alaska, of Limbo. It seems to have a limitless supply of his kind of people--aging slackers muddling inconclusively along. Chief among them are Joe Gastineau (Sayles regular David Strathairn) and Donna De Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). He's a handyman, an omnicompetent fixer-upper, who has abandoned the life he loves, as a fishing-boat captain, because he feels responsible for the death of two men on a long-ago voyage. She's a wandering bar singer--a very good one--encumbered by a sulky, judgmental adolescent daughter (Vanessa Martinez) but blessed by good nature. Like...
...induction. It might be a many and not a one. But we are as many as we are one. One thing is for certain: it rests at a place where many different descriptions of it simply won't do. But it's there. In Honolulu and in Juneau. It's not so much the name of it or its particulars: it is what we make it, and we make it the same, with a difference. We make it differently, and it turns out the same. Whatever it is, it is what we will do. And it will do. Wherever, whenever...
...White did not give up. "I believed in him," he says quietly. "There was great work to do out there, and he was pivotally placed." Franklin, "under duress," tried again in 1989 in Juneau, Alaska. He preached one of his father's favorite sermons, the story of the blind man Bartimaeus, whose sight Jesus restored. The revival's first night was successful, White says, but the second was something more: "They packed the place, drunks and divorces and prostitutes. He gave the invitation, and they poured down. It was a miracle, and he knew...
...People overlook his two-way skills," Tomassoni says. "In the ECAC quarterfinals his sophomore year, I used him to shadow Joe Juneau [currently playing for the Boston Bruins...