Word: dodgerism
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...instructive to think about Brooklyn, the borough that Dodger owner Walter O'Malley abandoned for Los Angeles after New York City's master builder Robert Moses blocked the purchase of a crucial piece of land on which O'Malley had planned to build a stadium. Not since the heady carpetbagging of the 1950s, when five baseball franchises (including the Dodgers) deserted multi- team cities to find gold in the West and South, have owners been so restless. Some get bored and take the pocket money, as Domino's pizza king Tom Monaghan did last week when he sold his Detroit...
...never said to the press that he's a philandering, pot-smoking draft dodger...
Fortunately for everyone, the Dodgers and their colleagues made four inspired decisions. One had to do with money, lavishly and well spent. Says Rocco Landesman, a Dodger partner who is also president of the Jujamcyn theater chain, which owns the Martin Beck: "We believe this is the most expensive revival in history. We spent $5 million because we approached the show as if it were new material...
...ceased to function. Hundreds of thousands of citizens were sent home from schools, offices and public facilities. On orders from city hall, all professional sporting events were suspended until after the weekend; N.B.A. play-off matches involving the Clippers and the Lakers were rescheduled, as were baseball games at Dodger Stadium and Thoroughbred races at Hollywood Park...
...Clinton still cannot afford a misstep. Though the New Hampshire results crowded out the Clinton headlines about Gennifer Flowers and his Vietnam-era draft status, the threat lurks in the shadows; in Savannah a veteran held aloft a sign that read NO DRAFT DODGER OR PLAYBOY FOR PRESIDENT. As a Clinton campaign aide put it, "It's a bit like Alcoholics Anonymous. Every single day has to go by. It's never completely behind...