Word: camera
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Laguna Beach, Calif. A neighbor across the street from an unruly party on June 17, 1990, recorded a harrowing 90 seconds of violence. Although a car partly blocked the view, an officer can be seen on camera swinging his leg in a kick at Kevin Dunbar, 24, a homeless man, while a number of other officers held him after he refused to obey an order to get down on the ground. The man, his face bleeding, was then lifted to his feet and led away to a squad car. A lawsuit against the Laguna Beach police department was filed last...
Chicago. Max's Italian Beef Restaurant on the northwest side had a security camera in full view, but the two uniformed police rifling the cash register and prying open the safe last July were too busy to notice. The veteran officers allegedly lifted $7,000. They were indicted and await trial...
Royal's photographs are valuble because they remind us that the camera does not directly record "reality." The camera's technological capabilities can be used equally to distort and manipulate the "reality" the lens captures. This dynamic is interesting, but in general the exhibit is dull. Royal needs to add more depth to her photographic work by varying her subjects and technique...
China's film bureaucracy is notoriously stubborn. But Zhang, who as a young man sold his blood to buy his first camera, is determined to keep making films at home. "I don't think I could go on with my work abroad," he says. "Where could I find a place overseas that looks like the Chinese countryside?" That is the capping irony: China never looked more ravishing than it does through Zhang's camera eye. The censors never looked more myopic than when they suppressed and orphaned the most intelligently gorgeous film since The Last Emperor...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo, badly wounded themselves before the war started by suggesting, respectively, that Congress might cut off funds for the war and that Saddam might go away if given part of Kuwait. "The best part," cackled one White House official, "is that they did it on camera." Republicans have obtained copies of those tapes for use in campaign spots and might also rebroadcast Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz's thanking lawmakers who opposed President Bush...