Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simple double desks of the twins, and the pantomime rostrum of C.B. draw attention to how stark the set is--a draped dais surrounded by twenty telephones, with other furniture passim. Such an arrangement is hard to dislike and equally hard to fathom. Is it the device-crazed silliness of modern life that leads it on? Or a nihilistic take on that culture? Or a big sardonic joke free of philosophical posture...
...Mechanic, "particularly women who are most likely to take their kids to the movies." To keep Bluth from wandering too far into his trademark whimsy, the Fox creative brass kept tight reins on script and character development. They also insisted that he and Goldman give up their old-fashioned Rostrum camera and use Silicon Graphics computers in the studio Fox built for them in Phoenix. Says Goldman: "They pulled Don and me into the 21st century, kicking and screaming...
Anyone who works in a highly visible enterprise toils in the shadow of legends: a ballplayer in Yankee Stadium knows he is standing where Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio once played. A newly inaugurated President stands on the Capitol rostrum knowing his words will be measured against those of Lincoln, F.D.R., J.F.K...
...very little face-to-face glad-handing. He was, however, more than happy to invite the press in to watch him reach voters the new-fashioned way: recording commercials, videotaping commercials, even writing commercials. His other prime method of communication was decidedly old-fashioned: the speech at the rostrum, where audiences came not to shake his hand but to listen to what...
...hoping for better individual qualifying marks with the season ending Heptagonals Championships at Dartmouth three weeks away. This is important as the seeding for the Heps are decided by the season's best performances. Theoretically, the better one does before the Championships the easier the passage towards the medals rostrum...