Word: podiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroits Cobo Hall last week, the concertmaster signaled for the oboist's A, and the strings and woodwinds went about the squeaky business of tuning up. Then like something out of an old Esther Williams spectacular, Conductor Godfrey Salmon rose 14 feet in the air atop a hydraulic podium. Silence reigned for a good second or two before the cries came from the audience: "Rock 'n' roll!" "Get it on!" "It's boogie time...
...Dame's commencement last week to receive an honorary degree, and so was Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns. When Burns' name was called, Carter did more than just join in the general applause, as he had for the others. He got up and walked to the podium with the patrician boss of the Fed. There, grinning broadly, the populist Chief Executive pointedly shook hands with the rock-ribbed Republican central banker and, clasping his shoulder, offered his congratulations...
...will share the podium with George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and author Barry Commoner...
...FIRST THING Richard Pryor tells us when he reaches the podium (to do the first lap in the night's relay of guest hosts) is: "I'm here to tell you why no blacks are going to be nominated tonight, for anything." None were. Jane Fonda is another guest host. Hanoi Jane announces Lillian Hellman, who praises this younger generation for inviting her after all the years she was blacklisted. The audience gives Hellman a standing ovation; we could not help thinking of all the stalwarts in the theater who probably played strong supporting roles in Hellman's feeding...
...that, all he has as presented here is his dubious wit and reputation as a drinking man--the best known in America since W.C. Fields, the authors gush. He brags endlessly about his phenomenal partying abilities--his "cast iron stomach," beer for breakfast, minnow swallowing, guzzling at the banquet podium...