Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After five months,10 dismissed jurorsand several thousand hours of analysis on Court TV, the O.J. Simpson prosecution has finally rested its case. How did they do? "I don't think they hit the ball out of the park," saysTIME's Elaine Lafferty. "But they did a fairly solid, workmanlike job. The DNA evidence was as strong as everyone thought it would be, but the problems with glove that didn't fit were a major flaw." The prosecution dropped plans to call Nicole Brown Simpson's mother as its final witness, fearing that she might become too upset under cross-examination.Simpson...
Working with a $12 million annual budget, officials are hard pressed to maintain essential park services, let alone improve and expand them. Primitive water and sewer lines regularly rupture. Twisted, aging roads are dangerous and confusing. The visitors' center is cramped, overrun and hard to find. Its exhibits are outdated and the roof leaks. Employee housing is so critically short that some government workers are living in the medical clinic and an old laundry. Others are billeted in rickety trailers that were hauled to the site from nearby Glen Canyon Dam, where they housed the dam's construction crew...
...LAST TIME I SAW Cleveland, her park was worn and gray. The press box in Cleveland Stadium was shrouded in cobwebs. The Indians on the field that season--1985--were on their way to losing 102 games. A solitary fanatic in the last row of the distant bleachers was banging a drum slowly to wake up either the offense or the ghosts of the past. George Vukovich stood where Rocky Colavito once stood. The 5,000 people rattling around the 74,208-seat Temple of Doom looked as if they wanted to wipe the stupid grin off the face...
...Mistake by the Lake was host to geriatric front-office people, eccentric players and the entire entomological kingdom--one pitcher swallowed a moth while delivering the ball to the plate. Indians pitcher Bud Black, who made a brief sojourn in Cleveland in the '80s, says, "At the old ball park, it was always overcast, even on a sunny...
...manager who steadied the team after a tragic boating accident in the spring of '93 killed two pitchers and injured another; the savvy of general manager John Hart, who traded for Kenny Lofton, Jose Mesa, Carlos Baerga and Omar Vizquel, among others; and, of course, the new ball park, which is slightly derivative of Baltimore's Camden Yards but not at all derivative of depressing Cleveland Stadium. "What do I miss about the old ball park?" asks Hargrove. "Nothing...