Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fastball, sailing high." The President hung around the O's dugout for the first two innings, at one point devouring a mustard-smeared hot dog. The former radio sportscaster gripped an imaginary bat as he told stories about filming The Winning Team, in which he portrayed Pitching Great Grover Cleveland Alexander. Unfortunately for the O's, life has not yet imitated art. The team has lost all three games at which Reagan has pitched...
Sure, it's frustrating to watch the Sox turn a certain double play into a fielder's choice that doesn't even work. And sure, it's frustrating to watch a team wallow in mediocrity year after year--just ask anybody from Cleveland...
RICO has been used to imprison the chief mobsters of Los Angeles, Cleveland and New Orleans and to charge leaders of major crime families in New York City. Add to that toll the Angiulos, whose fretting about RICO was recorded in 1981, along with a lot more incriminating material. Last week, after an eight- month trial, the four brothers and an associate were sentenced to varying prison terms and fines, with Gennaro Angiulo drawing 45 years and $120,000. Using the umbrella RICO statute rather than just a series of specific offenses, said Prosecutor Jeremiah O'Sullivan, meant the jury...
...Hall, inserted into the Cleveland lineup after Carmen Castillo pulled a leg muscle during pre-game warmups, drove in two runs yesterday as the Indians defeated the Baltimore Orioles 6-4 in their American League opener...
...head start for school." But others are dismayed by a parental mania to overstuff little minds that are not ready. At the recent convention in Atlanta of the National Association of Independent Schools, hothousing was a major topic among the 4,000 in attendance. Argued one of the panelists, Cleveland-based Educational Psychologist Jane Healy: "We're viewing children as a perfectible product into whom we can quickly and efficiently pour some learning...