Word: localize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin for recovering alcoholic Joe Cavanagh (Mullan), with the regular renewal and ritual therapy of an AA meeting (hence the title). Indulging in a sort of self-forgetting one might expect of someone with a blacked-out past, Joe throws himself into what he calls his family: coaching the local soccer team, a sorry lot of unemployables. Chance encounters and friend Liam lead Joe's path to intersect with social worker Sarah (Louise Goodall), who meets regularly with Liam, his wife and his "wean" (that's "child"; derived from "wee 'un"). Joe helps wallpaper Sarah's house and eventually summons...
...certain indulgence for natural light's gay vicissitudes (i.e., shades of gray and the occasional blinding sunburst)--stars as itself, showing off its social welfare services and those scrappy lower orders who compose both Joe's soccer team and, supplied with worse lines and hence less likable, the local hoodlums. Since Joe practices a strong allegiance to his "family," which includes Liam, and since former addict Liam and addict-at-large Liam's wife play fast and lose with debts to said hoodlums' boss, it's clear that too-willing-to-help Joe could soon get pulled down into...
...naturalistic or socially real in the underworld, and maybe it's just that all the baddies learn from TV these days anyway (see James Wood's vague gestures toward 70's Scorsese things in Another Day In Paradise). But, offering to help Liam pay a debt to the local hooligan head honcho, Joe does actually get to deliver A Package, ostensibly just driving a car back and forth, and, yes, Joe is not allowed to pull out of the deal once he's In. Just ignore the details and take it for Joe's display of self-sacrifice and still...
...addition, friends remembered McMahon's wide range of interests in various disciplines. "He was a marvelous person of great talent in a variety of areas. He's written novels and plays and was involved in various local hospitals," Abernathy said...
...line in the Balkan snow was more a suggestion, which means that, seven hours after Saturday's noon (6 a.m. ET) deadline had come and gone, negotiators were still talking, and about the only thing they could agree on was to keep at it until at least 3 p.m. local time Tuesday. So how close are we? It's still anybody's guess. This much is apparent: Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic remains the difference between a NATO occupation and a NATO war. "Most Serbs would accept NATO troops rather than face its bombs," says TIME Belgrade reporter Dejan Anastasijevic...