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that the town is riddled from top to bottom with the serious social and economic problems (even during "boom" years) which trouble the whole society---except for one area, the football team of the high school. As we read, "The Permian Panthers ended the decade exactly the same way they had begun it. Two days before Christmas, they became the state football champions of Texas" (355).

Meanwhile, the rest of the town is falling apart. There

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