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...brilliant political speaker in his own right, John F. Kennedy observed Martin Luther King Jr.'s soul-stirring address to the huge throng at the Lincoln Memorial with a professional's eye. "He's damn good," he remarked to aides as they watched King on a TV set at the White House. According to King's biographer, Taylor Branch, Kennedy was especially impressed with King's departure from his prepared text to sound the electrifying refrain that became the oratorical high point of blacks' freedom struggle: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live...
...speaking style and his inability to accept criticism. Woods' 9/11 scenes convincingly show how the tragedy restored the mayor's sense of purpose and made him America's Rudy. If Woods errs at all, it's because, unable to resist an actorly delivery, he makes Rudy a more dramatic speaker than...
...there's a special reason to resent a political speech at the Oscars - and it's not just bias against Hollywood liberals. (Everyone considers Arnold Schwarzenegger a nitwit for holding forth politically too, and he's conservative.) Call it the Panhandler Syndrome. A speaker like Moore is like a beggar in a New York City subway car. Even people who give to charity and the homeless resent this kind of panhandling, because it takes advantage of a captive audience. It's not like you can just jump out onto the tracks if you don't want to be bothered...
...Saddam's first broadcast to the nation came a few hours after the strikes early on March 20, but U.S. officials speculated that it could have been pre-recorded prior to the bombing raid. Some even suggested that the speaker may have been a body double rather than Saddam himself. This speech, too, may have been pre-recorded but it was clearly done recently given the references to recent battles...
...animated speaker, Cuno incorporated slides of the interiors and exteriors of many of Europe’s most famous museums into his lecture...