Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rendering of Bela Lugosi from the 1931 film Dracula. Around the vampire's neck hangs a pendant that resembles a six-pointed Star of David, the symbol of Judaism. When the boxes first appeared in stores last month, offended shoppers complained to the Minneapolis-based company. After the Cleveland Jewish News (circ. 15,000) picked up the story, General Mills agreed to change the box cover to a design without the pendant. The offending package had gone through routine approvals, corporate officials explained, but no one at General Mills or its ad agency, Saatchi & Saatchi Compton, had noticed the Star...
While running for President about a century ago, Grover Cleveland bumped into what might have been a fatal problem -- the public charge that he had fathered an illegitimate son by a tall, pretty widow, Maria Halpin, manager of the cloak department in a Buffalo store. To modern Americans accustomed to politics as show biz, it may be surprising to learn that Cleveland survived the scandal by acknowledging paternity and giving his organization a simple order: "Tell the truth...
Even more surprising to the 1980s sensibility is the fact that Maria Halpin remained obscure during the public sensation and later. Incredible. Had she lived in today's tattletale milieu, the mother of little Oscar Folsom Cleveland would have bounced from magazine covers right into the hot seats of Donahue and Nightline. Agents would have hatched deals for books, movies, interviews, docudramas and maybe a stint of modeling to launch a new line of lingerie called Grover's Corners...
...acres where Nature imitates human nature. Williams has seen just about everything else in his 26 years of coaxing trees, flowers, grass, birds and squirrels to coexist on top of and among security alarms, underground cables and rooms. The battle is constant, but he loves it. There is Grover Cleveland's Acer palmatum dissectum (Japanese spiderleaf) and Franklin Roosevelt's Tilia cordata, the little-leaf linden. They whisper and exult in the breezes and hunker down for the storms. They make grand harmony. "No politics here," says Williams, who moves among the 66 species of trees, pruning, feeding and enticing...
Allman, a Florida-born journalist who was educated at Harvard and Oxford, offers the livelier version of the city's emergence from alligator swamp to Casablanca, U.S.A. His candidate for founding mother is Julia Tuttle, the independent wife of a Cleveland industrialist who persuaded Henry Flagler to extend his Florida East Coast Railway to the shores of Biscayne Bay, where Tuttle had inherited land from her father. The area promised freedom from the occasional winter frosts that inconvenienced rich vacationers 70 miles north at Palm Beach...