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Buoyed by their rousing reception on their night of triumph, the two Democratic candidates moved onto the floor to shake the hands of delighted delegates, while the band struck up rock tunes designed to appeal to the younger generation that the Democrats are courting. They returned to the podium for the traditional show of unity, with the defeated candidates closing ranks behind the winner. The delegates swayed once more in unison as a black Broadway musical performer, Jennifer Holliday, belted out The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Rabbi Jacob Pressman pronounced the benediction...
...Colorado Senator Gary Hart descended from the podium and plunged into the crowd after his Wednesday-night speech, the hopeful strains of Chariots of Fire washed over Moscone Center. The next night Democratic Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale, battle-scarred from his primary brawls, strode triumphantly to the platform and raised his arms like a prizefighter. The song: Theme from Rocky...
...Democrats may have talked about unity, but it was San Francisco's 50-piece Dick Crest Orchestra that provided the true harmony. Candidates could choose the music they wanted to accompany their moment at the podium from a repertoire of about 500 songs. Despite the extensive selection, Hart used recorded music. When Mondale requested Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, the band had to send out hastily for sheet music. Did the dearth of Sousa marches and the absence of brass bands offend convention regulars? Apparently not. "I like variation," said San Franciscan Paul Maag, who attended his first Democratic...
...headquarters of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, where he now works. Behind one shoulder the American flag, behind the other the Olympic. But for a bum ankle, he says, he could still tear up the track. The last time we saw John Carlos was 1968 on a podium in Mexico City, standing in the grainy evening light rigid as an exclamation point. The black-power salute; an antique of the '60s. He is speaking of something else...
...long, low, wire-laden convention hall looked like, and became, an enormous TV studio. The delegates, the nominal center of activity, served mainly as a massive studio audience, providing emotional (and often selective and misleading) reaction shots during speeches. The four network booths loomed above the floor and podium, affording their glassed-in anchors the best seats in the house...