Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stranger than Paradise is certainly a remarkable film, technically and dramatically. The camera follows Willie (John Luric). Eddie (Richard Edson) and Willie's Hungarian cousin Eva (Eszter Balint) as they drive from New York to Cleveland to Miami Beach in search of fun and excitement. They don't find any, but they do find a grainy black and white America and some money. Not quit paradise...
...problem for his players would not be overconfidence. They looked overwhelmed. "The stress of that moment is unbelievable," he says. "You can go into a stupor under such pressure." Like Shula a pup out of Paul Brown, Walsh had heard tell of a crisp pep talk delivered by the Cleveland Browns coach on opening day of 1950, when the survivors of the disbanded All-America Football Conference were being called amateurs unfit to share a field with the great N.F.L. champion Philadelphia Eagles. "Just think," Brown said drily, "in a minute you'll get to touch Steve Van Buren." Cleveland...
...bizarre incident that has drawn nationwide attention, Cleveland's school superintendant, a 1970 Ed School graduate, shot himself in the chest Saturday after leaving an open note saying he was "sickened" by the school system's "petty politics...
...Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA yesterday signed three-time Ivy League scoring leading Earl "Butch" Graves...
...Cleveland 107, New Jersey...