Word: camera
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FRED GOLDMAN could not be blamed for never wanting to see another TV camera in his life. Yet he has become the latest participant in the O.J. Simpson trial to embrace the medium. He'll host Search for Justice with Fred Goldman, which will appear on UPN later this month. "For me, the word celebrity is offensive," says Goldman. "But people do recognize me. And maybe we can take the horror of losing my son and turn it into something positive." Search, which may be picked up as a series, will examine stories of injustice across America...
...tape recorder was unveiled in 1900 at the Paris Exposition, to which visitors flocked to be scandalized by Rodin's non-Victorian statues, and Kodak introduced the Brownie camera, an apt symbol of a century in which technology would at first seem magical, then become simple, cheap and personal. The Scholastic Aptitude Test was born that year, permitting a power shift from an aristocracy to a meritocracy. The Wright brothers went to Kitty Hawk to try out their gliders. Lenin, 30, published his first newspaper calling for revolution in Russia. Churchill, 25, was elected to the House of Commons...
...with the tank showed us another face, so to speak, of the camera and gave us an instance in which the image did not cut humanity down to size but elevated and affirmed it, serving as an instrument for democracy and justice. Instead of making the lofty trivial, as it so often seems to do, the image made the passing eternal and assisted in the resistance of an airbrushed history written by the winners. Technology, which can so often implement violence or oppression, can also give a nobody a voice and play havoc with power's vertical divisions by making...
...EVERYDAY LIFE 1 in 7 homes had a bathtub 1 in 13 homes had a telephone Brownie camera $1 lb. of sugar 4[cents] dozen eggs 14[cents] lb. of butter 24[cents...
...video has proven a big hit among my friends, perhaps because most of them have not jumped, or possibly because it just confirms for them how crazy I must be. Of my five minutes on camera, four minutes and 30 seconds show the instructors hamming it up while I hesitated, a death grip on the railing. Only the final 30 seconds show me leaping, falling and then bouncing around on a big rubber band. At least my swan dive looked pretty good...