Word: chiron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...labor to give visual excitement to the taped voices of ABC correspondents, patching quick-shifting background scenes, stunting with double dissolves and freeze shots to fill the exact 47 or 73 seconds allotted a story by the producer. Then comes a final mixing of words and pictures, with a Chiron machine imposing labels or texts in front of the pictures, and a computer called the Quantel-a marvelous machine that Roone Arledge first used for some of his tricky sports effects-sucking in, widening out or moving around pictures on the screen. "Zapping the cornea," ABC's style...
...composite of the man and his interests. Of course, this can be good or bad, depending primarily on whether you find a writer's background interesting. But the Updike admirer will be delighted, feeling instantly a companion to his sympathies, and discovering again the compassionate intelligence that sprung Rabbit, Chiron and others on us as sylvan metaphors for American life...