Word: candidness
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...combines the shallower features of a dramatic reading and a TV documentary. To cover the presidential span from Washington through Wilson, scenes and episodes have to be scissored to candid-camera snipshots. While painless history is the mood, the recurring theme, insofar as there is one, is that sorrow, great loneliness and sometimes tragedy are the permanent occupants of the house on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...John Kennedy once remarked that he didn't like to wake up in the morning and read newspaper stories about Khrushchev or Mao or Castro or any other unfriendly fellow. What he wanted was headlines about the President of the U.S., and he was engagingly candid about his desire for public "visibility...
KAREL APPEL-Hahn, 960 Madison Ave. at 75th. Appel pummels the canvas in violent combat with his images, beating his nudes into a submission that they mock with their startling audacity. At Jackson, 32 East 69th, he provides his candid figures with saxophones, pearl-handled pistols, and telephones for eyes, ears and mouths. Both through April...
...movie camera can be candid when it is hidden behind one-way glass and supported by hidden microphones. It can also be candid if it is simply turned on and left running until the people who are being photographed get bored and go about their business as if the camera were not there. This technique has been used by Manhattan's Sextant Inc. to make one of the most expensive and unusual documentary TV shows ever done. It is called Inside the Movie Kingdom-1964 and is scheduled to be broadcast this week on NBC (Friday, March...
...likely to prove more popular than Grocer Gorman. In 15-minute sustaining spiels delivered three times each day, Gorman regales the folks upstairs with reminiscences, political commentary ("Lodge has gone as far as he can go; I see Rocky ahead in California") and laid-yesterday jokes ("Hello, this is Candid Camera"). Joseph Gorman may be short, paunchy, balding and pushing 60, but to his fans he means more than any matinee idol; he means idle matinees...