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microphone boom

It is used in cell-phone technology as a retractable antenna, or microphone boom, due to its highly flexible and mechanical memory nature.

Roughly 17 minutes into the episode the shadow of the microphone boom is visible moving across the wall as Basil sits in front of the typewriter.

Driscoll spoke into the microphone boom projecting from his helmet.

It appeared to be a microphone boom that had been retrofitted.

"It's getting dangerous with all these big cameras swinging around," said Emil Wilbekin, the editor of Vibe, ducking to avoid a microphone boom.

A lighting engineer tested the reflectors, a sound recordist checked the microphone boom and a focus puller marked positions with a tape-measure.

Cables crisscrossed the pavement; camera tripods and microphone booms were set up.

Trailed by a ramshackle army of campaign aides and media people, microphone booms raised like halberds, he enters the store in search of votes.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino was hit in the face by a microphone boom knocked over by a presidential bodyguard resulting in a black eye.

No jostling television cameras or jousting microphone booms.