Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stuffed along the door bottoms to help muffle inside sounds. And we laid small rugs in front of the doors to let us tiptoe close and look out through glass peepholes. We taped over the peepholes. In each tape we made a tiny opening with a pin, like a camera, so we could see out but remain unseen...
...crisis, half a world away, has become a presence of bizarre intimacy. The nation's designated killers in the desert look very young on camera and confess that they are scared. Soldiers say hello to the nation on the morning < television shows, like kids away for spring break at some overheated, militaristic Lauderdale. One trooper proposed marriage to his girlfriend back home via satellite...
Take the scene of empty shelves in Moscow grocery stores that appears on TV news programs almost every evening. At least some of the food so conspicuously missing in state outlets is on sale but off camera, from private vendors at higher prices a few blocks way. That's what a transition to a market economy is all about...
...unheard-of practice in rock: Remember Phil Spector's use of other singers under the name of the Crystals, or Brian Wilson's hours in the studio concocting Beach Boys tracks? The new wrinkle is that the people who provide the sounds may not be exactly . . . well, charismatic on camera. Today's concert audiences want to see re-creations of videos, and that often demands intricate, high-energy choreography of a kind that makes live vocalizing extremely difficult. Madonna, Janet Jackson and the New Kids on the Block have all resorted to some lip-syncing in their recent shows...
...habits die hard and when the activists began their "die-in" on a Boston street, the camera-toting cops swung back into action...