Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sporting buttons reading "We Sell Cleveland" and "Ask Me About Cleveland, Would You Like a Piece of Baklava?," volunteers rolled out the red, white and blue carpet for the more than 1500 journalists and observers who came to witness what everybody is calling the most important event of Campaign...
...Cleveland over the years has had a tarnished image," he explained as a reporter eagerly consumed Polish cabbage. "Until now, my motto has been no news is good news...
...speaking of former mayors, this is the home of Dennis Kucinich, the beaming boy-mayor who made a lot of enemies and put Cleveland in default before the voters sent him into retirement...
This city hasn't mobilized such a police force--one-third of Cleveland's finest to say nothing of the swarming Secret Service--since the 1930s, when the "Mad Murderer of Kingsbury Run" stalked downtown streets committing the "torso murders." "A head here and an arm mere," as the city's unofficial historian recalled today...
...estimated $200,000 bill for preparing and staging the 90-minute show will be picked up from donations from companies and citizens, some of whom have already launched a $3-million advertising blitzkreig, known as The New Cleveland Campaign...