Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reagan style was made up of three elements, the first and most obvious located at the point where warmth intersects rhetoric. Reagan's rhetoric was crafted by flacks, and the warmth may not have warmed anyone within actual touching distance, apart from Nancy, but from a podium or in front of a lens, the combination was overpowering. Reagan, said Tip O'Neill in a moment of frustration, could win an election with the votes of a group of bankrupt farmers. O'Neill, no mean blarneyer himself, was paying homage to a master...
...network correspondents, but their patience was sorely tested at presummit requests to stage live remotes from the East Room, site of the Bush-Gorbachev signing ceremonies. Since the President has long complained about anchors doing "stand-ups" from the briefing room while he is still on the podium, the idea was nixed. "They wanted to cover it like a bowling tournament," protested one advance...
...build a big dream sequence around a few selected products. For $20,000, he will declare, "I have a dream that some day blacks and whites will sit together at McDonald's, sharing a Big Mac and fries." For $40,000, he will display a Big Mac on the podium, and for $60,000, he will consume it during the speech...
...despite the changes--and despite the continued tradition of activism at Harvard--President Derek C. Bok still remains unchallenged today from his podium on the stage of Tercentenary Theater...
...wasn't Wellesley's first choice this year; that honor went to Alice Walker, black author, single mother and Pulitzer prizewinner, who declined. To women in cap and gown who have worked hard to be able to make it on their own, having a wife and mother on the podium may feel too diminishing, like getting on Nightline and then having to wave to your...