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...clouds and the air of doom didn't stop Seaver's delivery from being any more or less than it had been. His arm speed was down and the hop on his pitches had diminished, but his motion remained tranquilly the same as that of the 22-year-old who burst onto the major league with a 16-13 campaign in 1967 with the woeful New York Mets...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Thirty-Nine and Still Stalking the Perfect Delivery | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

...caricature. Or you might hear that the language is not actually ironic and incisive and all the rest, but more like a transcript of lonely guy bar talk, right there at the pitch it reaches when happy hours are ending. Don't listen to the gloom and doom. But if you do and decide not to give Tokyo Woes a good shot, you can always wait and catch the video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cassette Guys Tokyo Woes | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...minute penalty on Voclked with 10:10 to pay appeared to doom the Harvard comeback. But tremendous play by the defense killed the penalty and left Harvard still one tantalizing goal short with eight minutes remaining in the game...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Laxmen Foiled by Bulldogs Yale Edges Crimson, 9-8 | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...remaining inning, however, that spelled her-and the Crimson's-doom...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Boston College Squeaks Past Batswomen, 2-1 | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

...Iacocca was presiding over Chrysler's press briefings in what he dubbed "the gloom and doom room" because of the bad news he was forced to report every quarter. He had made his second cover appearance in 1980 as a symbol of the auto industry's plight. Two and a half years later, when Iacocca had turned Chrysler around, he was on the cover again. "Iacocca was by then referring to the pressroom as 'the boom-boom room,' " Witteman remembers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Apr. 1, 1985 | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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