Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cleveland State University prepared to host its third NCAA championship meet, consensus favored Ray Bussard's Tennessee Volunteers to repeat their feat of the previous year at Long Beach. Clearly Tennessee thundered into Cleveland with a distinct edge in qualifying places. Based on rankings from premeet times, the Vols would have accumulated 264 points. Florida (198), Cal (164), UCLA (159), and USC (93) followed on the list of premeet prognostications...
...time of 4:16.43. Hackett notched second in 4:19.41. UCLA wracked up the meet's second-highest point total in a single event, scoring 35 points (Cal scored 40 points in the 200 breast two days later). In the other record-shattering event, the Golden Bears astonished the Cleveland crowd in perhaps the meet's most outstanding performance. Cal's 400 medley relay squad of Peter Rocca, Graham Smith, Par Arvidsson, and Pelle Holmertz lowered the meet and NCAA records by nearly two seconds, posting a blazing...
...calls for. Before Willard Scott moved to NBC's Today Show, he be came a Washington, D.C., fixture by giving his WRC-TV weathercast in kilts, Robin Hood costumes or George Washington getups. Audiences in Savannah have had a weather reporter who talked to a seagull; those in Cleveland have enjoyed one who blew hot licks on his trumpet between temperature recitations. Station KDBC-TV in El Paso has a Lhasa Apso named Puffy Little Cloud who gives a forecast by appearing on-camera in an outfit appropriate to the weather...
...direction of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, a capable, rather intellectual conductor with an interest in contemporary music, they are versatile and ambitious, but also uneven; they lack a distinct personality. "I would like to give the orchestra an identifiable style," says Marriner. "My ideal would be an orchestra like the Cleveland under the late George Szell, a precise, responsive instrument in which quality, ensemble, intonation are all there." For starters, he is trying to coax more confident, uniform phrasing from the strings and a "rounder, more civilized" sound from the winds, especially the brass...
Tokyo Whales 7, Cleveland...