Cruz, on the other hand, roved the stage, microphone in hand, like a charity auction emcee.
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Now a third stage is at hand, one of dangerously outsized expectations.
So after our set, still drenched in sweat, I stepped across the back of the stage, camera in hand, for what I hoped would be an impromptu photo session with The Killer.
Again only two years later in 1994, Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres walked hand in hand on stage, holding a public dialogue leading up to the creation and recognition of the Palestinian Authority.
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At the conclusion of that lecture, I bum-rushed the stage and pressed into his hand a cassette.
Inside the arena, Springsteen is walking around the empty seats, a microphone in his hand, giving stage directions.
Making use of a table, a lamp, the front of the stage and a cast of hand-drawn marionettes, The Paper Cinema told two classic tales.
Bourdain took the stage with a beer in hand -- a rarity even for this casual event -- and the resulting conversation was freewheeling, funny and a little profane.
With palm trees framing the stage and singer Lee Greenwood on hand to sing "God Bless the U.S.A., " supporters cheered Mr. Ryan's arrival in Florida.
More recently 26-year-old Ava Maginnis, from the Totterdown area of Bristol, remembered waiting in the wings on the right-hand side of the stage before a performance.
"It's my first time meeting her in-person, " he explains, extending a hand to bring her up on stage.
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ASEAN, on the other hand, has moved onto center stage in international affairs.
Each is designed to do a lot of the hand-holding necessary for an early stage technology venture without taking up lots of resources.
Dressed in khaki, silver stars glittering on his open collar, chewing on a meerschaum pipe, he ambled to the center of the stage with a sheaf of notes clutched in his hand.
In the world of comedy, if you are absolutely determined to stand on a stage for five minutes with a mike in your hand, someone in London will let you do it, if only once.
When a new player joined the ensemble, Mr. Unsworth wrote, he had to learn the 30 hand movements all actors knew then as covert stage signals.
Its leader, David Trimble, who had campaigned for the agreement, voted against the second stage of the release bill, while the Tories stayed their hand.
"I am sure from the council's point of view, they have really got perhaps to the stage where they think things are getting a bit out of hand, " he said.
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The front rows of the audience observe the action at close hand, from plush waiting room seats that surround the stage.
Comedian Eddie Izzard was on hand to get the riskier questions going, and at one stage Ed Miliband himself even called for a tougher grilling.
Sandor Foldi, of Bury St Edmunds, was once dragged across the stage of Olympia by a runaway bear when he worked as a circus hand.
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At one stage during the interviewing, a Russian soldier angrily knocked the microphone out of my hand, saying we did not have proper accreditation to be in Alkhan-Yurt.
On the other hand, wireless networks are given more flexibility as they are in a nascent stage and have their own technical issues and it might not be apt to force net neutrality regulations to them as well.
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To reach that negotiating stage, however, the West has to be generous enough to give Mr Khatami a stronger hand than he has now.
Wes is also game for a laugh and has tried his hand at unlikely activities including bingo-calling, doing a John Travolta impression on-stage at the New Theatre, trolleybus-driving and taking to the racetrack at 150mph at Silverstone... albeit with someone else at the controls!
Bright New York lights, big stage, national TV audience and Commissioner Roger Goodell in the house to call your name and shake your hand.
"The function of the sweet is to set the aesthetic stage for that particular event, " said New Jersey-based Marybeth Welch, who has been making wagashi by hand for more than 20 years and is one of few expert practitioners of that labor-intensive art in the States.
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