Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backlash was not long in coming. On opening day of the baseball season in Cleveland last April, Celeste faced an embarrassing chorus of boos as he threw out the first ball. "Substantial tax increases are not popular," said Celeste matter-of-factly. "I recognize and respect the anger of the people." But the anger in both states grew more insistent, and grass-roots groups fighting the increases began to burgeon...
...Phoenix, metal lawn signs in front of homes warn burglars that gun-wielding guards will greet them if they enter. In Cleveland, a school for canines turns tail-wagging family pooches into snarling guard dogs. In Los Angeles, uniformed attendants at a bunker-like command post study screens and consoles day and night, watching for signs of home break-ins. When an alarm goes off, they lift a red telephone to summon police, or bark out a microphone command that dispatches members of their own gun-toting security force...
...craziness has a fine ring to it while it lasts. One of the most appealing adventure stories of recent years is what might be called the Every Now and Then Transatlantic Singlehanded Ridiculously Small Boat Derby. The first entrant was the late Robert Manry, a Cleveland newspaperman who in 1965 sailed across the Atlantic in his 13½-ft. Tinkerbelle, a craft so tiny that it looked like a bathtub toy. Years passed-it takes a certain sort of person to enter the Ridiculous-and last year Briton Tom McClean sailed from Newfoundland to England in an absurd craft called...
...KPIX: "Male broadcast journalists grow more distinguished and credible, but the women just get older." There are notable survivors: Barbara Walters, 51, of ABC; Pauline Frederick, who retired in 1974 at age 65 from NBC; Reporter Taris Savell, 52, of Pensacola's WEAR; Commentator Dorothy Fuldheim of Cleveland's WEWS, who has signed another three-year contract at age 90. But as CBS White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl, 41, contends, "It is generally uncharted waters whether women can age on camera...
Rose is hardly likely to win every vote, even should he have the most hits of anybody who ever played. Someone will disapprove of his hair style or of the way he flattened Cleveland Catcher Ray Fosse in an All-Star game. But Rose will go in on the fly, and Morgan fairly briskly...