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...deliver 500,000 units by Christmas, but all summer there were delays and reports of faulty equipment. Most experts think the Adam will live up to its promise, however, and by last week Coleco said belated deliveries were running at 2,000 a day. And the stock, which had sunk in pre-doll times, gained 5⅛ points in two days, in large part because of the mysterious Cabbage Patch mania...
...should be buoyant. The Wingfields imbibe a kind of emotional helium; only the guy wires of propriety keep them from floating into their darkest dreams. But with the exception of Bruce Davison's Tom, who nicely mixes wistfulness and cynicism, this Wingfield family is an chored to-sunk beneath-the matter-of-fact realities of Depression America...
...straight buckets he had sunk from the line this year couldn't compare in importance. The next two would decide a game that had seen his squad fight back in the last seconds of regulation to force an extra period, and then fight back in the last seconds of overtime to force the final shots...
Osborne tries to respond to the issue with a smile, but he admits, "It has taken a lot of the fun out of the year for me." Following a complaint that the Cornhuskers had passed too freely in the first half against Kansas State, the coach agreed, "We have sunk to new depths of depravity." He is not a man to whom laughter comes easily. Tall, rawboned, freckled, formidable, Osborne at 46 still resembles the wide receiver he became for the San Francisco 49ers after Y.A. Tittle and John Brodie convinced him that there were no openings for quarterbacks...
Last night Harvard enjoyed an equal balance between under-the-basket attempts and outside shots. The Crimson sunk the ball at a healthy .519 clip, far better than last year, when Harvard shot mostly from the perimeters...