Word: closeup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aren't at all worried about television--in fact the think TV is giving sports many new friends. Magazine surveys of both these sports have shown that fans still prefer to see the teams perform in the flesh, because hockey and baseball television is a far cry from the closeup coverage of boxing, wrestling, and football...
Occasional spells of poor passing, failure to sink closeup shots, and unpredictable defense work marred the team's debut...
...soliloquies, Olivier gives them on the sound track but plays them as mental monologue. His lips move with the words only when he would think aloud. This device is worked even more deftly in Hamlet than in Henry V, and has already become as standard in movies as the closeup. Shakespeare's descriptive and narrative speeches are pictured on the screen, and by this device, Olivier sometimes even manages to enhance the language. Ophelia's description of Hamlet's "madness" (As I was sewing in my closet) gives the two of them a lovely passage of pantomime...
...Closeup, Young neither looks nor acts like a fighting man. He is quiet and soft-voiced, shows anger only by a slight tightening of his lips, a slight glint in his pale blue eyes. Only 5 ft. 6 and weighing only 135 Ibs., his body seems fragile. His thin shoulders are stooped. He looks more than his age: at 50, he could easily be taken for 65. His narrow face is florid and wrinkled, with the kind of puffiness that usually spells dissipation. "My dissipation," says Young, who doesn't smoke and only occasionally takes a cocktail...
...covered, radioactive waters of the lagoon still prevented a closeup survey of the damage to what was an 87-ship target array, but the tonnage scoreboard for the first two controlled tests of the bomb's power against naval strength heavily favored this submarine burst. The score thus...