Word: rostrum
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...WOMAN, as the first movie made almost entirely about women by women, merits some small attention. It might have merited more if it had not been written and directed by Poet-Novelist Sandra Hochman (Walking Papers), who has used the women's movement as a sort of rostrum for some extravagantly banal personal fantasies. Much of Year of the Woman was shot, in documentary style, at the Democratic Convention in Miami last year. The coverage of the women's caucus, which is fleeting, has some hard intensity. There are also some moments of humor, such as Hochman performing...
...greater degree of practical success than most Americans, and certainly I, had supposed." Coming from an old China hand, a staunch defender of Chiang Kaishek, a relentless past critic of Mao Tse-tung's "disordered, paranoiac government," Alsop's new tone-both in print and on the rostrum-comes across as a marked mellowing. But he is still the master of the ominous prediction; he asserted that the Soviets will decide within three years whether or not to go to war with China...
...bought with a dinner at the White House. Also acting it up for the President were John Wayne, James Stewart, Pat Boone and Charlton Heston. Although an incumbent President can readily command a surface loyalty, it was no small achievement for Nixon to hear himself praised from the rostrum in strikingly similar terms by Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan and Ed Brooke. The smiling faces of such onetime villains as China's Chou En-lai and Russia's Leonid Brezhnev flashed on the convention screen in happy toasts with Nixon, and there was not a hiss...
...last trip to Peking, in 1970, Snow was invited to stand beside Mao on the rostrum at the National Day celebrations. The visitor accurately interpreted this honor as a sign that Mao wanted better relations with the U.S., and Mao confirmed that in his interview with Snow, in which he virtually invited Nixon to come to Peking...
When the time finally came for the Chinese to make their debut, Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua walked slowly to the giant green marble rostrum, took off his glasses and began, in calm and deliberate tones, to give his hushed audience the Chinese view of the world...