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...first novel, nominated for a Booker Prize and written by a fellow who drives a big red London bus, and who, British newspapers feverishly reported, received a $1.6 million advance, which later turned out to be $16,000 (he still drives that bus). But this hilariously macabre tale of Tam and Richie, two Scottish fence builders who--once they can be dragged from their slovenly trailer, their cigarette breaks and their pub crawling--keep accidentally killing people on the job, marks a terrific debut. As the story veers into increasingly surreal territory--just who, or what, is that new fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Restraint Of Beasts | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Giants at Tam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Deborah Tannen, Georgetown professor of linguistics and author, most recently, of The Argument Culture, was asked by NOTEBOOK's Tam Gray to help us understand Bill Clinton's approach to apologizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 14, 1998 | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...social issues from art. It may be, as art historian Elizabeth Johns argues in the catalog, that Mount's best-known picture--Farmers Nooning, 1836, with its strongly, even nobly, realized figure of a black laborer taking his siesta on a pile of hay while a boy in a tam-o'-shanter mischievously tickles his ear with a grass stalk--is an allegory of the delusive promises made by abolitionists to slaves. Or it may not; little is known about Mount's racial views. It is clear, though, that the life of children--mainly small boys--was his core image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Down-Home Populist | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...scholarship of Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History, is deeply affected by her past...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FacultyProfile | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

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