The facade facing Broad Street was positively antisocial, with a low podium wall and a "lifted" row of small ground floor windows that effectively said: Keep Out.
I caught the low end of the podium and was even able to manage a bit of a smile as I entered the mix zone.
Surrounding the tower is a five level basement with a low-level commercial podium built above it.
In the second half, Brahms's Second Symphony was conducted by Mr. Santora, a lanky, kinetic 26-year-old who at 6 feet 6 towers over his players even when standing on a low-rise podium specially built for him by the orchestra.
But even a Norrington on a low podium and wearing shoes can make the most famous symphony in music, Beethoven's Fifth, sound fresh, provocative and, yes, unpredictable, when he used it to close his all-Beethoven program with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Thursday night.
In the lowest section, or podium, the emperor and his retinue had a special box; on the opposite side of the amphitheatre, but still in the podium, the vestal virgins, consuls, praetors, ambassadors, priests, and other distinguished guests were seated; the rest of the first gallery contained senators and those of the equestrian rank.
At the medal ceremony, Hammon stood on the lowest step of the podium, in her Russian uniform, a bronze medal around her neck.
He looked down at the podium.
My initiative landed me on the podium.
Plinth, Lowest part, or foot, of a pedestal, podium, or architrave (molding around a door).
In one corner, a student with low-slung pants stood atop an otherwise unoccupied red podium marked "Reading High School Security".
