Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...centerpiece of Bela Fleck's music is his banjo. Now, maybe your image of a banjo is something that sits on Granny Smith's lap while she strokes Flash the basset hound and waits for the Confederate boys to boot the Yankees out of Atlanta. There is still hope for redemption, even for those prejudiced few who've let their musical image of the banjo be perverted by Roscoe P. Coltrane and Boss...
NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct GB L10Streak Home Away Philadelphia 9 3 .750 -- 8-2W6 2-1 7-2 Atlanta 7 5 .583 2 5-5 W12-4 5-1 Montreal 7 6 .538 2.5 5-5 L1 4-3 3-3 New York 4 8 .333 5 4-6 L33-2 2-5 Florida 3 9 .250 6 3-7 L30-5 3-4 Central W L Pct GB L10Streak Home Away Chicago 8 4 .667 -- 6-4 W2 2-3 6-1 Houston 8 5 .615 .5 7-3 W2 1-2 7-3 St. Louis...
...Atlanta 3, New York...
Philadelphia 3, Atlanta...
There are rumbles too from the author's former Shangri-La. A rancid attack by Atlanta-based free-lancer Ed Hinton in January's GQ charged that Grisham is sullying the sacred ground where Faulkner once trod: "In a long line of Mississippi writers, Grisham is a singular aberration and paradox, the worst and the richest, the least distinguished and the most popular." The article outraged most locals, who point out that Grisham helped pay to repair the Faulkner estate and rescued a new literary periodical, the Oxford American. Says novelist Barry Hannah, who has a formidable reputation...