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Very little was left to chance. The proceedings were so carefully scripted that virtually the only suspense was whether all 50,000 balloons in the Dallas Convention Center would disgorge on cue when Ronald Reagan and George Bush appeared on the podium for their victory waves the final evening. The party's conservative leadership was in such firm control that minority dissenters to the platform had no chance to raise their criticisms on the floor. Many of the principal speeches were edited by two Reagan campaign staffers, which may have been why there was such a similarity...
...bright red cushion of the hall's 17,000 seats, providing a telegenic color complement to the acres of blue carpeting. VIPS began slipping into town, ferried between meetings in stretch limousines, some with real Texas longhorns protruding from their hoods. The blast-furnace August climate was performing on cue, with temperatures reaching the 100° mark. But the Big D's air-conditioned interiors were frigid enough to give a reasonable life expectancy to the ice-sculpted elephants that will serve as mascots at off-hours bashes. In short, the stage was set last week for the Republicans' Lone Star...
...Woolf? But his greatest role was the one that both he and his audience seemed to enjoy best: Richard Burton, the romantic and joyous spirit. When he died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the comparatively youthful age of 58, it was as if some clumsy stagehand had missed his cue and dropped the curtain before the performance had really come...
...next conventions in four years, network executives are eager to lay down the burden of being the first with the most public service. They will probably take a cue from the Olympic coverage, going live for major events, but instead of filling the rest of the time with their own chatter, offering up taped portions of the day's earlier sessions. In this way the networks should be able to operate more modestly, while more faithfully recording the occasion they set out to cover...
...famed geyser misses its cue...