Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard sent Providence packing to Rhode Island, handing it a 6-1 loss at the Palmer-Dixon tennis courts...
...Crawford Palmer, Dart...
...Dartmouth (5-9, 11-15)--A lot of good Duke transfer Crawford Palmer did these guys, Back top the beer, fellas...
...Baxter's setting is conventional small-town America, but his scenes are as eerie as the realism of Edward Hopper paintings. Five Oaks is a town where history no longer takes root. Industry is elsewhere. Spirits too have up and gone. People have dusty backgrounds and odd occupations. A Palmer neighbor is a retired airline dietitian; a young woman describes herself as a Con-Tact-paper decorator...
Assistant city manager Palmer has not budgeted for evil, but neither has he made a classic Faustian bargain. How could he? In a universe where God is only curious, the devil is certainly bored, at least with Five Oaks. To convey this sense of abandonment and emptiness without losing the reader is not easy. Shadow Play could have turned into another clever existential dead end. But Baxter fills the void with a hundred human touches, a style as intimate as chamber music, and a hero who rouses himself to reject the banality that hoohah happens...