Word: savannah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past a sign that says MIDDLEBURY, INDIANA, HOME OF THE 1995 JUNIOR MISS. We turn left on Route 120, headed for the open road under a canopy of oaks. The whole slab is ours, Seattle to Savannah. All its parks, all its hills and valleys, all its roadside hash houses. Who says we ever have to turn back...
...Josephine Hightower had always been good company people in a sturdy and steady company town--until about 10 years ago. Willar had worked his way up to the position of engineer, proudly receiving excellent evaluations. Josephine, a senior computer programmer, relished her white-collar job. Their employer was the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., a sprawling nuclear-processing plant where the Federal Government stores some 35 million gal. of radioactive waste. It was the largest employer in South Carolina, and the jobs paid well. The Hightowers saw themselves as team players, partakers in the co-prosperity of a racially...
Felicity Aulino '00, of Richmond, Va., whose extended family is Catholic, says she too was drawn to the flexibility of Buddhist belief. Aulino discovered Buddhism when she took a year off before college, visiting "spiritual" Savannah, Ga. with a friend to "find something...
Drag is the hallmark of this unwieldy film, and we're not talking about Lady Chablis. Clint Eastwood's lumbering adaptation of John Berendt's bestseller falls short of expectations, rendering the unique pantheon of Savannah personalities as mere cartoons and focusing too much on a long, drawn-out murder trial. John Cusack fumbles through the role of the script's too-young, too-straight stand-in for Berendt's narrator. But despite these flaws, Kevin Spacey shines as Jim Williams, the enigmatic gay antiques dealer who kills his lover in what may or may not have been self-defense...
Drag is the hallmark of this unwieldy film, and we're not talking about Lady Chablis. Clint Eastwood's lumbering adaptation of John Berendt's bestseller falls short of expectations, rendering the unique pantheon of Savannah personalities as mere cartoons and focusing too much on a long, drawn-out murder trial. John Cusack fumbles through the role of the script's too-young, too-straight stand-in for Berendt's narrator. But despite these flaws, Kevin Spacey shines as Jim Williams, the enigmatic gay antiques dealer who kills his lover in what may or may not have been selfdefense...