Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winner at this year's Academy Awards with five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. The movie was Mel Gibson's second behind the camera, after "The Man Without a Face" in 1993. "Like most directors, what I really want to do is act," Gibson joked at the podium. He was not the only actor to be recognized for other talents: Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility." Says TIME's Joelle Attinger: "This is a recognition of the growing cross-fertilization of roles people can play in the film...
This performance is starting to rankle. "I think Lamar believes I'm going to fall off the podium somewhere and he'll be there for the last rites," Dole told TIME. "Not going to happen." But what all the candidates are counting on is the growing evidence that even if Dole stays lucky he will have trouble winning the 996 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination before the convention. According to intricate computer models by Steve Grand of Wilson Communications, if Dole wins Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, most of Maryland, all of Maine, all of Vermont, half of New York...
...revolutionary battlefield that made Lexington famous is now the center of an affluent suburb, and the one campaign stop Buchanan's men had plotted for this state. Minuteman imagery aside, this was a sublime opportunity for the candidate. Here he would be in the crossfire and be winning. The podium was backed by a red and blue striped and white starred banner; it was surrounded by the Secret Service. Roped in front, about 100 agitated supporters stood, patiently awaiting the descent of their savior who was to arrive some 20 minutes late on a hired...
...high school had come out there with a paper sign taped to his baseball cap identifying himself as press; had thought to grab a garbage bag to cover the equipment; had lugged a stool probably from his house; and he couldn't shoot, couldn't see the goddamn podium. The supporter wanted it that...
Standing at the podium and using his hands for emphasis, Fisher gives abundant examples from the reading to illustrate his points...