Word: tars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North Carolina Tar Heels journeyed to the NCAA finals for the 6th time in 20 years last night, searching, just striving, for their own share of heaven--Blue Heaven they call it down in Chapel Hill. But a stingy Indiana defense combined with an almost at-will penetration of the Tar Heels' halfcourt press laid waste to their heaven as the Hoosier's denied the Tar Heels 63-50 and claimed the national collegiate basketball title in Philadelphia last night...
...string of six unanswered points and tied the game up at 8-8 with about ten minutes to go in the first half. The tide switched again, however, as Wood made an inside power move and laid it up-and-in to claim his 2000th collegiate point, and the Tar Hells who socred eight points to Indiana's none in the next two minutes to go up 16-8. Knight said after the game that this was its crucial point, and during a time-out he obviously communicated that to his squad. The Hoosiers mounted a strong comeback and succedeed...
...fact, if you're not out on Franklin Street right now, this sports page and the Charlotte Observer's in one hand, and Ken Rapoport's classic tome Tar Heel Basketball in the other, you can forget about snagging a seat at Chapel Hill's favorite watering hole...
...Tar Baby, like the rabbit bait in the Uncle Remus tale, is the sort of novel one can get stuck on. The fox is the author. Morrison, whose Song of Solomon (1977) won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, blends elements of racial identity, assimilation and Caribbean folklore with an old-fashioned lady-and-the-truck-driver romance. Can sophisticated Jadine and her black diamond in the rough make it, even after he has a haircut and borrows a Hickey Freeman suit? Or will Ryk, a rich somebody, lure her back to Paris by sending her a sealskin...
...strange things are possible. The Caribbean, with its buried history of slave trade and uprisings, its lingering essense of negritude, is a good stage. Morrison attempts to evoke island life with touches of the magic realism that made Song of Solomon so successful. It does not quite work in Tar Baby. In fact, the strongest sense of place is conveyed in a scene set in New York City, where the author is an editor for a leading publishing firm. -By R.Z. Sheppard