Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American League, a determined Detroit Tiger team kept its pennant hopes alive by making a three-run comeback in the tenth inning, topping the Oakland A's by an identical 4-3 score. The series will be decided tomorrow afternoon in Detroit...
Finishing fourth in 27:18 was the Crimson's Marshall Jones, followed by another Harvard man. Andy Campbell, who continues to impress sports fans with his comeback after a one-year layoff. He finished...
Though the movie deals with boxing, the violence on which it focuses is not the brutalization of the body but the devastation of the human spirit. It centers on Billy Tully, an overaged boxer whose psychological survival depends on a comeback he cannot rationally hope to accomplish. After a year-and-a-half away from the ring, he succeeds only in beating a washed-up Mexican fighter for a $100 purse. Within a year, he is outshined by his own protege, an eighteen-year-old youngster with no previous experience, who has the strength and the discipline Tully will never...
...Keefe's comeback, which began at one mile, strengthened after the second and third markers, and he finished just behind Quirk, who had passed all the Huskie competition except for Rowe...
Specials will also continue to provide an avenue for drama's modest comeback on TV. Theatrical Producer Joseph Papp will bring Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing to CBS. ABC will show a filmed performance of O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night by Laurence Olivier and England's National Theater troupe. Many specials will probably turn out to be less than special, but in their diversity and indefinability they may be a good portent: they constitute a format that offers some hope of liberation from the very concept of format...