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Convention planners are allowing roughly an hour for the debate and vote on each of the five minority planks, which are all virtually certain to be defeated. The planners' hope is to get all the controversy settled in an atmosphere of reasonable civility before Jackson mounts the podium on Tuesday night to deliver what is certain to be a rousing and rhythmic speech. The occasion will serve as a rare prime-time showcase for the free-verse Jacksonian oratory that stirred predominantly black audiences to near frenzy during the primary campaign...
Some of the best shows in town are far from the podium...
When Mondale rose to address the group Saturday morning, a noisy audience of 1,300 greeted him with chants of "Run with a woman, run with a woman." Decorating the podium from which he spoke were arrangements of campaign buttons reading WOMAN VP NOW. But Mondale was not yet prepared to commit himself...
...greeted by surreptitious hisses at a run-through, Williams finally decided that enough was enough. The conductor-composer, whose most recent score was for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, will turn in his Pops baton at the end of the summer concert series. Applicants for the podium may want to bring along Indiana's bullwhip...
...Democrats had drawn first blood last month, when O'Neill ordered House cameras to pan the empty chamber during Republicans' postsession speeches, which were staged primarily for media pickup. In retaliation, G.O.P. members assembled video clips of O'Neill's fast gaveling on the podium, but decided that using them in ads would violate the House rule against employing shots of the chamber for partisan purposes...