Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia 121, L.A. Clippers...
...Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Rangers...
SARAH'S BACKGROUND does parallel Lee's; she too, is a child of middle-class Philadelphia Blacks. Her father is a preacher in the prosperous and ironically named New African Church. Reverend Phillips is also active in the civil rights movement. Sarah recalls Sunday sermons punctuated by Baptist baptisms with the same uneasiness she feels about the historic March on Washington, in which her parents participated. To the young Sarah, the civil rights movement seems "dull, a necessary burden on my conscience, like good grades or hungry people in India." For a girl whose most dramatic bouts with racism...
...Games or of what they brought to Sarajevo. The children who moved into the apartments built to serve as the Olympic Village strap on their skates and wobble up and down the hard-packed snow on the sidewalks and streets. There are fantasies here just as surely as in Philadelphia. They say with pride, "In school, the other kids call us 'Olympians.' " A cab driver buzzes about town with his new CB radio turned up to catch a dispatcher's grating squawk through the static. "We got this radio system new since the Olympics," he boasts. "Now tourists can call...
...teams listed in 1984, 14 are still functioning, and three of those only marginally. Just for starters, the 1983 champion Michigan Panthers have merged into the Oakland Invaders, and the Arizona Wranglers have combined with the Oklahoma Outlaws as the new Arizona Outlaws. The Philadelphia Stars, last year's champs, subsumed the Pittsburgh Maulers and emerged, farther south, as the new Baltimore Stars...