Can files in gzipped tarballs be extracted without paths?

[Walter Dnes]

  Situation;
* I download a *.tar.gz file
* I know that it has a tarred subdirectory containing a bunch of files
* I want the files in the subdirectory extracted directly to the current
  directory.

  E.g. if the tarball has subdirectory foo with files foo/file1,
foo/file2 foo/file2, etc, I want to be able to extract file1, file2, and
file3 directly.  Right now, I dive into the tarball with mc (Midnight
Commander), and "mark and copy" the files in the virtual file system.
unzip has the -j option to "junk" the directorie structure, and unzip
all files in the archive into one directory.  Is something similar
available with tar?

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