Word: tars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tar Baby, Morrison's latest novel, makes interesting use of time, alternately erasing, alternately accentuating the poignancy of the characters' lives. On one level Tar Baby appears self-conscious, as when Morrison's efforts to bring the theme of alienation to a new height fail and her characters are left in affected poses, muttering cliches. But the softness of Morrison's prose when she describes the dreams of her characters, plus her sensitivity to the historical traditions that created Black America, save the novel from total affectation. The symbols which Black Americans use to interpret much of their lives...
...American Isiah Thomas. Knight and the Hoosiers lived up to their billings in Philadelphia, storming through the Final Four like panzers at a prom. Indiana cowed a talented Louisiana State University team in the semifinals, then mercilessly picked apart Coach Dean Smith's elegantly orchestrated North Carolina Tar Heels in the championship game. And for good measure, Knight decked an L.S.U. fan, leaving him slumped in a trash...
Knight's approach produces wonderful basketball. With Thomas, the tournament M.V.P., leading the way, Indiana hounded its opponents ruthlessly, putting on second-half spurts that sent first L.S.U., then North Carolina reeling. The effect on the Tar Heels, normally composed and efficient, was devastating: trailing by a single point at the start of the second half, they found themselves down by eleven in less than five minutes, as the Hoosiers stole the ball twice and crashed the boards to wrest rebounds from North Carolina's fearsome front line. The Tar Heels never recovered, finally losing...
...observer of the disaster area: "Much of the land is covered by silt and debris, and can't be cultivated. There are villages where absolutely everything has been swept away." Though a cleanup is well under way, tens of thousands of Chinese are still living in makeshift tar-paper shacks, and millions are getting by on a starvation diet of about 14 oz. of coarse grains daily. Nearly a quarter of the preschool children in the hardest hit area have contracted such water-borne diseases as hepatitis, dysentery and schistosomiasis...
...tennis team may see Carolina blue on Friday afternoon, after meeting the University of North Carolina Tar Heels in Chapel Hill, the first in a series of matches with Atlantic Coast Conference squads for the netmen...