Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arthur Ashe left the tantrum tennis to Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe and let his silvery racket heap the abuse. The United States Tennis Association ranked him among its top 10 players seven times during the 1970s. He was No. 1 in 1975 when he beat Connors at Wimbledon, and fifth in 1979 when he had his first heart attack and underwent quadruple-bypass surgery...
...biggest is to avoid being swept up in a destructive swirl of publicity as many earlier black intellectuals and leaders have been. Starting with Booker T. Washington, America has seemed to have room for only one top black spokesman at a time, consigning each former favorite to the ash heap of inauthenticity as soon as a new H.N.I.C. (Head Negro in Charge) appeared...
...Odor of Green Papaya, a lovely Vietnamese film made in France by writer-director Tran Anh Hung, 30, and a cast of refugees; both tell bold stories of a child's coming of age. And Abel Ferrara's Hollywood horror movie Body Snatchers, saved from the slag heap of Warner Bros. rejects, revives the old parable of the Pod People with a frame-by-frame savvy that used to be unique...
...what has proven to be a microcosm of a faltering city, St. John the Baptist Church in midtown Manhattan stands at the top of the heap, a glaring symbol of the city's social ills...
...these sacrifices we're willing to make to fix America? Drive more efficient cars, switch to generic nicotine, forswear government aid we don't really need and pay more tax if we're at the top of the heap...