Word: butler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exception to this inconsistency has been Junior Tammy Butler, who has been averaging 19 points and 13 rebounds per game. But even her brilliant play cannot carry the team, as was evidenced Friday night...
...Princeton we came out flat in the first half," Butler said. "We were down 12 at halftime and never made it up. We cut the lead to seven but never had enough momentum to turn it around...
...game, three players scored in double figures--Butler had 23 and Catherine Crisera and Elizabeth "Buzz" Proudfit each had 10, while rest of the team combined for only...
Writer Robert Olen Butler comes into this long, claustrophobic novel of erotic obsession with a powerful charge of literary momentum, including a Pulitzer Prize last year for a fine short story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He's still on his feet at the end of They Whisper (Holt; 333 pages; $22.50), but he's moving slowly, like a man who has just bushwhacked through 20 miles of tidal marsh and who needs a hot shower and breakfast. Guessing how this valiant effort will be received is chancy. Is a reader close enough to the hero...
Whether this is effective is a matter of taste -- and endurance. Butler's earlier fiction, mostly about Americans in Vietnam and Vietnamese in the U.S., is tight and controlled (The Alleys of Eden and The Deuce are two of his novels). Here he deals obsessively with obsession, and in his frenzy forgets to let his readers...