Word: conventioners
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FROM an oratorical standpoint, Walter Mondale gave the best speech of his life that night. The crowd at the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco (admittedly, a partisan audience) was hanging on his every word. Even though he was following Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro, the lead-toungued...
European filmmakers often view Hollywood as an artistic Alcatraz where slaves to convention are blinkered from the ferment of the outside world. In the '60s, as a prodigy auteur with the smartest, most restless camera style in the business, Bertolucci was a charter member of the first generation of directors...
RICHARD Nixon has appeared everywhere the past few days. The April 10 issue of The New York Times sported a full page ad, with a huge photo of the ex-President, announcing Nixon's appearance on the NBC News program Meet the Press for the first time in 20 years...
Dukakis picked up 22 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta July 18-21. Jackson received 14 delegates, and Gore got none.
Arizona Democrats on Saturday also began the process of choosing the delegates who will actually go to the national convention. Thirty-six are being allocated in proportion to the caucus vote, while another five top party and elected officials are uncommitted delegates.