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...know if you're a bumbling idiot on the lecture podium unless you've read the questionnaires," said Woollacott, adding "I don't think I would allow my course to be evaluated if I couldn't see each of my students' responses to the questionnaires...
...Tuesdays and Thursdays, Motulsky sits beside the podium in Sever 202, silently echoing visiting professor Joseph Cooper as he lectures in Government 1300. "The National Government of the United States." Fenta sits at the front of the classroom, carefully watching his interpreter and quickly jotting down notes...
...Ubieta is a fine mime, but pinned to the podium she has great difficulty establishing any dramatic relationship with Burke, and she exhausts every conceivably interesting movement in her small space pretty quickly. Ending up as more of a shadow than an independent character, her talents could certainly be put to greater...
...switch to their network anchor desks. Channel 7, for instance, gave us a plodding Tom Ellis while Dan Rather announced the Reagan victory. And the station also took its time before joining the Reagan family in Los Angeles. Their viewers missed the first couple walking up to the podium. Let the record show that Mrs. Reagan, like Rather, wobbled just a bit and appeared slightly dazed...
...rebuttal: neither candidate is much good at it, at least by the standards a coach of formal debates would apply. The rules for judging a TV political debate are of course different. Says one candid presidential aide: "Reagan delivered a couple of good one-liners, stayed close to the podium, looked alert and had a better camera angle. The conclusion is that Reagan won the debate." The adviser's own verdict is somewhat different: "The most interesting thing is how little these debates tell us about which candidate would be the best President...