Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temporary hospital and home medical care. The company's CompuServe division supplies a variety of computer-based services, including an electronic mail system for businesses. Through a new subsidiary, Block provides management services to a chain of 65 storefront legal clinics that was started two years ago by Cleveland Attorney Joel Hyatt...
...real achievements and the long slide into mediocrity after 1918. Authentic pre-1918 De Chiricos are few, and most of them are on the MOMA'S walls. On the other hand, copies and "later" versions-a euphemism for self-forgeries-are everywhere. (One of them, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, dubiously identified as a 1917 Metaphysical Interior, has crept into the show and should creep out.) Italian art dealers used to say the maestro's bed was six feet off the ground, to hold all the "early work" he kept "discovering" beneath it. In a spirit...
Before the Red Sox began selling bleacher tickets in advance, standing in line was almost as much an event as the actual game. In '77 my sister and I were nearly trampled to death by an obese Cleveland man and his wife, as we waited for over three hours in a line that extended to Kenmore Square...
Indiana 100, Cleveland...
...sure, Schaap has to tell the usual Steinbrenner stories, the ones the New York Post and Daily News have subsisted on since the Cleveland multimillionaire bought the squad in 1973. There's the derigeur stuff about the owner's hate-hate relationship with two-time manager Billy Martin, and the latest dirt on what Steinbrenner considers his "father-son" relationship with once and future Yankee manager Gene Michael, whom he canned last fall but soon rehired for the 1983 season. Schaap doesn't forget to mention the owner's interference with his managers' decisions, or his proclivity for spending ungodly...