Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-twist, double back somersault, of course. Returning to defend her championship in what has become the glamour-girl event for Olympic TV audiences is Russia's Ludmilla Turishcheva, 23, the all-round competition gold-medalist at Munich, renowned for her controlled grace and classical repertory. The cameraman's favorite will be Turishcheva's celebrated teammate, Firefly Olga Korbut, 21, who flipped, tumbled, smiled and cried both herself and her sport into the spotlight four years ago as she flitted off with two gold medals of her own. And the romanticist's favorite will be Nadia...
...even in the midst of racial hatred, there were countless individual acts of courage and kindness. One white township official spent the first night of the troubles in the home of a black family, who sheltered him and then smuggled him to safety next morning. A South African television cameraman-reporter team escaped injury when five blacks bundled them into a car and drove away from an angry...
...bizarre sight. The time was 9 p.m., Europe's favorite TV hour; on the channel Economist Siro Lombardini was just settling down to discuss the nation's troubled economy. Suddenly chairs, set and people began to tremble. "// terremoto! II terremoto! [Earthquake! Earthquake!]" shouted a frightened cameraman. While thousands looked on in amazement, economist and TV crew made a live, unceremonious departure...
...cameraman, hidden, perhaps, behind a nearby tree, records your reactions. Unwittingly you have become part of a psychology study. If you become suspicious when the student rises unhurt, or if you happen to notice the cameraman, you may resent having been tricked. But if you don't catch on, you may never realize the contribution you have made to science...
...NEED NOT turn beyond the first photograph in this book to understand that cameraman James Klosty could not possibly express more about choreographer Merce Cunningham than that he's an enigma. That first photograph silhouettes Cunningham--turned from the waist, arms stretched overhead, legs rooted apart--like a Klee stick figure, or a Giacometti spider-thin nude, or maybe a twentieth-century version of the Renaissance icon: man as the measure of all things...