Word: podium
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...sidelines, preached some old-time Democratic religion while blessing a ticket with postliberal views on welfare (too generous) and government spending (ditto). Even Jerry Brown couldn't throw a wrench into the works, though he and his cantankerous supporters tried. When he finally spoke on Wednesday night, his sulfurous podium performance included no endorsement of his party's ticket. Maybe it was resentful party regulars who arranged to have Brown leave the stage to the music of a Sousa march known to most people as the theme from Monty Python's Flying Circus...
Scheduled to nominate the Democratic presidential candidate is Jimmy Carter, the last Democrat to be president. Carter makes his way to the podium with the aid of a cane. He walks with a stoop, like...
...Garden, Gergiev has very little help. Surrounded by old-school functionaries, he must train a staff that can do business with the West. He seems to proceed on instinct, with more than a little of the old Diaghilev in him. Often he will end a long evening on the podium with a couple of hours of nuts-and-bolts negotiating...
...band behind the massive podium has been one of the key "players" in the convention and in addition to general peprally music, the band (or the Garden's high-tech stereo system) plays speaker-specific theme songs...
...rules of this convention preclude my acceptance tonight," Clinton said from the steps leading up to the podium, "but 32 years ago, another young candidate who wanted to get this country moving again came to the convention just to say a simple thank...