Word: gavelled
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...solemnly in the luminous aura at the bishop of St. Paul's in full vestments, fighting off lepers and bagging for a new car. In the dream court room scene--Lenny's defense as he would like it--the rudge sits like a baby on the tall dais, giant gavel in hand and judicial robe falling like a black christening gown the length of the form. The church and courtroom farces are samples of the excitement Victor Budnick projects with his direction. Maintaining a rapid pace, Budnick sets one character group against another so that scenes expand and pop like...
...polished lines on cue, the smoothly edited film tributes to Pat and Dick, the youth-led demonstrations timed to the minute, the taped endorsement of a teary Mamie Eisenhower-all provided tidier television fare than had the tedious early-morning roll calls of the Democratic Convention. The tardiest opening gavel was only 15 minutes late; with Missouri's vote, Nixon's renomination came only eight minutes late...
...Platform Committee. They came in all sizes, ages and accents. They ranged from Katherine Harjo, 17, a Seminole Indian from Oklahoma to Jessie Sanders, 79, a political pro from South Dakota. The convention's cochairman, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, a black running for Congress from California, wielded the gavel with muscle, tact and a winning smile. Delegates were careful to address her as "Madam Chairwoman," or, at least once, as "Madam Chairperson." Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York won a small but loyal following for her presidential candidacy. Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, a Vassar-educated Texan who ran well for Governor...
...Brien picked up the huge gavel. Too heavy, he thought. Why not get an electric buzzer next time? He whacked it down, and the great spectacle of Miami Beach was on. He made an early decision. The noisy mass below him had to be managed, somehow led through four days of business, but more important were the millions and millions of Americans who were watching through those blinking red eyes directly in front of him. Talk to them, he told himself, wondering what the man in San Clemente would be seeing in a few hours...
...Tricia Nixon Cox, four-year-old Patrick Lyndon Nugent turned up at the White House to reclaim his occasional place behind the desk in the presidential office. He brought along his mother Loci Johnson Nugent, swiveled happily in the big presidential chair and gleefully pounded the desk with a gavel. At his press conference, young Lyndon fielded questions with all the aplomb of his grandfather. Did he know who used to work here? "Boppa." Who likes elephants? "President Nixon." If he has absorbed from his family any other insights into Boppa's successor, he showed the political savvy...