Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central 326-page-long joke. The media, neo-angst about World War 111, and trendy consumer society constitute one large punching bag, and the deadpanned oneliners seem endless. DeLillo has the greatest sense of the macabre since Poe, although without the ravenous-knock-your-house-down-bury-you-alive doom and gloom...
...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...
...outfit that would have made most blush: a turquoise suit with an orange leopard-skin tie slung about his bare neck in something that looked more like a noose than a knot. He even poked fun at his own pessimism by saying. "If we've brought a little doom and gloom into your life, we'll consider it a job well done...
...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...
...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...