Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure happy we stuck with what we had," said Bengals owner Paul Brown, who won four NFL titles as coach of the Cleveland Browns in the 1950s and 1960s...
...opposed to arbitrary suspensions. It may be an accident of timing, but almost from the moment of the decision, the NCAA has seemed to flex its muscles with increased vigor -- and the college-sports lockup has swelled. Brooklyn College, Illinois, Marist College, Minnesota, Texas A & M, Arizona State, Cleveland State, Cincinnati, Houston, West Texas State, Kansas and Oklahoma represent the year's catch in the NCAA's crusade, according to its charter, to "retain a clear line of demarcation between college athletics and professional sports...
...example," I say smartly, "many famous people went here. Six presidents, from the Adamses to the Roosevelts to Kennedy and Cleveland (law school counts), graduated from Harvard. Plenty of senators and members of congress are alumni. Even Fred Grandy spent time in Cambridge...
...life-and-death issues are matters of style, and even the most desperate night callers seek sleazy entertainment, not salvation. But Stone wants more. In Salvador and Platoon he found drama to match his message; here he must invent tragedy to suit his spleen. He moves Barry from Cleveland to Dallas and appropriates the murder of Denver radio host Alan Berg -- a little silver anniversary present to the Kennedy-assassination city. Stone's camera closes in on Bogosian's face as if it were the cratered moonscape of the American mind, and the actor / starts shouting into his megaphone mike...
...England (9-6) can get a wild-card berth if it wins its last game next Saturday at Denver and Cleveland loses tonight at Miami or next Sunday against Houston. Tampa...