Word: camera
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When all is said and done, but not yet fully digested, Secondo enters his kitchen, makes an omelet, shares it with Primo and an assistant. All this is done in real time, without change of camera angle or exchange of words. It is spectacularly confident filmmaking, honoring our ability to draw our own conclusions about what we've seen and the medium's rarely employed ability to convey major emotions through minimal means. And it is completely emblematic of--oh, let's just say it--a completely delicious movie...
When we heard that MTV's "The Real World" wanted to recruit at Harvard for a Boston season, our minds began to whirl. Harvard students have many attributes, not least among them their ability to digress at length upon angst-ridden topics. Give them a camera, and hey, you might never get them to shut...
...Arrogant. It helps if this person is good-looking, too. No insecurity pierces this person's armor, not even when he or she knows that every other person in the house is trying to find every flaw. Until that one night, when he or she faces the camera, alone, in the dank basement, and confesses on national television that it has all been a masquerade, and "The Real World" has changed his or her life. This one is a real keeper...
...campaign that debuted in the summer of 1995 in selected, midsize media markets--away from the national press corps' cynical gaze. The very first spot, aired on June 27, telegraphed the President's strategy: Clinton wouldn't be out-toughed. In that ad a solemn President stared at the camera and said, "Deadly assault weapons off our streets; 100,000 more police on the streets; extend the death penalty. That's how we'll protect America." From there the President's team directed a family-values campaign that routinely tarred the G.O.P. as the party of the rich...
...honestly say they were "paying attention," down from 42% at the same stage of the campaigns in '92. And in time, there was less and less to pay attention to. The only group to walk out of the Republican Convention was not the Buchananites but Ted Koppel and his camera crew. By October the candidates had become harder to find on TV than intelligent, nonviolent children's programming. There was talk, among the environmentally concerned, of recycling America's stock of voting booths as Portosans...