Word: closeup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders. For Adlai Stevenson, dedicated to lessening cold war tensions, and long contemptuous of the brusque counterblast as a technique of foreign policy, the week had come as a shock, stimulating the strongest kind of change in a man essentially unschooled in the closeup rough-and-tumble of Communist diplomacy. For the new President of the U.S., Russia's attitude was a rude reminder that although the Kremlin's tactics might change, its strategy most emphatically does not. "Together, let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts...
Always there were questions about the kids-Cathy, 5½, Lori, 2, and John, 8 months. "Send me a closeup picture of you and the kids. Give me hope and something to live for." There were memories of courtship on the campus of Kansas State University, where John got a B.S. in business administration after graduating from little Tonganoxie (Kans.) high school. "You wrote about how you will never forget the day you came to me when we were in college and said you wanted to marry me. I was thinking of that same thing about the time you wrote...
...same time, the initiates will enjoy the tight camerawork on the musicians. The closeup of Brookmeyer masked behind sunglasses and Guiffre bouncing energetically around the bandshell is a treat; so is the intense concentration of Hamilton during his solo. It is a commonplace of jazz that much rapport is lost in a large all-star program like Newport, and shots like these more than compensate...
When the camera tries a closeup, some customers experience a disturbing sensation, as if their eyes, in order to focus, were being forced to cross. As the cutter fades one image from the screen and fades another in, the eyes instinctively attempt to focus on the departing and the arriving images, and the strain sometimes approaches the threshold of pain. On the whole, the experience is entertaining, and probably will not hurt anybody who has not had to go through it since 1955. In any case, it is always possible, if the eyes protest too much, to slip...
...intellectual ghetto are gone." But it still takes courage for a sponsor to go all the way downwind with a good public-affairs program. The most notable example this season is the Bell & Howell Camera Co., which backed the ABC Close-Up! survey of racial prejudice in the North. Closeup! has also had a turbulent look at Haiti, plans ABC programs on water pollution, featherbedding and Communism in Africa...