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...FINE IF YOU COULD READ LIPS. New Orleans' great flying saucer of a building was less Superdome than Superdrone. The cavernous arena seemed to swallow up the voices of the speakers. On opening night, crusty former Senator Barry Goldwater, seated in the VIP box, was cussing and complaining that no one could hear what was being said. Some delegates actually left the arena to listen to the convention on television. According to a New Orleans official, Ed McNeill, the National Education Association met in the Dome before the Republicans did and offered to split the cost of the sound system...
...Dean Graham T. Allison '62, who has announced he will step down next year and is widely mentioned as a possible appointee in a Dukakis administration, made the transition from dean to political mogul last night. He was among the select guests of the Dukakis family seated in a VIP box located to the side of the podium. Allison and the Dukakis family and entourage, which numbered approximately 50, were joined in the box by the families of vice presidential candidate Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen, Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Kirk, and a rotating set of speakers, such...
...despite their VIP status, the group was not spared the effects of a cramped convention hall. When they were all assembled, 200-odd power-brokers were packed into the two-tiered box, which had seats for only...
...rest of the hostages boarded a white bus and cars and waved to reporters on the tarmac as they were driven to the airport VIP lounge. The seven crew members and 21 passengers carried hand luggage as they filed into the lounge...
...criminal trial, after all, revolves around precisely that gray area where the two begin to blur. Was Bernhard Goetz just a volatile Everyman, ourselves pushed to the limit, and then beyond? Or was he in fact an aberration? Often, besides, eccentrics may simply be weirdos in possession of a VIP pass, people * rich enough or powerful enough to live above convention, amoral as Greek gods. Elvis Presley could afford to pump bullets into silhouettes of humans and never count the cost. Lesser mortals, however, must find another kind of victim...