Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the Aware Woman Center for Choice, which performs abortions, two portable toilets sprouted. They were put there by Operation Rescue, the militant pro-life organization that had bought the property in part to demonstrate near the clinic without violating a court-ordered buffer zone. Soon, locals knew, video cameras would appear -- toted by nearly every actor in the coming passion play: pro-lifers and pro-choicers taping each other, police taping both and TV-news teams taping everybody. "There's probably more money spent on camera equipment than anything else," joked Melbourne police captain Gary Allgeyer. Then he turned...
...pictures, Saddam Hussein told frustrated U.N. inspectors who have been trying for more than a month to install surveillance cameras at two missile- testing sites. The U.N. responded by proposing to place tamper-proof seals over the most sensitive missile components until the camera issue is resolved...
...insensitive government agencies. Like the one-hour dramas they have replaced on the prime-time schedule, the magazines serve up morality tales of black hats vs. white hats, with the reporter as avenging U.S. marshal. Instead of a six-gun, his or her weapons are a hidden camera (for the inevitable undercover expose) and a hand-held mike, thrust at reluctant witnesses before they slam the car door. It's "Gotcha!" journalism...
...competition for stories, moreover, is growing more fierce. No fewer than five network magazine shows have explored doing a story on Maggie Hadleigh- West, a New York City woman who took a video camera onto the streets to record instances of sexual harassment. Four of the shows, according to Hadleigh-West, offered her money as inducement; she eventually picked CBS's Eye to Eye with Connie Chung. Executive producer Heyward says the payment is strictly for use of her video footage -- "standard practice in the business" -- and asserts that CBS's long-standing policy has not changed...
These avant-grade exercises become the heart of the movie from the beginning when a firm introductory narration is broken by Orlando talking directly to the audience. Swinton creates an intimate connection with the audience by addressing the camera directly usually as part of a joke. By the end, all she has to do is make a quick flash with her oversized eyes to cause smirks and halting laughter...