Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half-hour opens with Humphrey getting ready to a film a TV-speech, shifting position, worrying out loud whether he would look better behind a podium. Peek behind the scenes and there is a real Humphrey, the opening says, and the apparent frankness of what follows is indeed disarming...
...fifties are out in Belmont now, driving VW's, taking in a foreign movie now and again, speaking a bleached language and leading bleached lives. A dry-fuck life, Heimert would call it, if he weren't a shade too decorous to make a comment like that from any podium more public than a dinner table. His own style is so much more intense, robust, youthful, maybe in the way Falstaff's was and maybe in a more indestructible way that the fifties can only be a metaphor for his condition, not the cause...
Another wave of applause carried Bond to the podium. Pulling a folded manuscript from his pocket, he casually looked out over the audience and remarked, in what sounded like a whisper, "Well, that's the obituary...now for the post mortem." The audience could relax now--Bond had acknowledged their presence...
Even as Bond stood at the podium silently pausing for an instant, many in the packed room were already aware of what he would say next. "Our victories and our hope," he reflected, "have promised much and produced little...
Anyway, Gene McCarthy, when he finally came to the podium, made up for the rest of the rally. His trips to the Riviera and the World Series seemed to have done great things for him. His face was finally ruddy, his hair had a luminous silver finish, and his tailor had equipped him with an almost psychedelic baby blue shirt. Finally, the Democrats had a match for Ronald Reagan--as if it matters...