Word: closeup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those questions, which may be of more than passing interest to taxpayers now hastening to complete their returns, will be answered Friday (10 p.m. E.D.T.) on IRS: A Question of Power, this month's edition of ABC News Closeup. In the 18 months since Closeup presented its first hour-long program, the network's new documentary unit has specialized in asking-and finding answers for-some nasty questions. Closeup has asked why the Federal Aviation Administration has been lax in pursuing passenger safety, whether Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons arranged with the White House to have his predecessor James...
Seldom Profitable. That inquisitiveness has earned ABC News Closeup, which does not yet have a regular time slot, 14 journalism awards as well as considerable praise. According to Marvin Barrett, director of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Survey of Broadcast Journalism, Closeup "has been consistently courageous and the most outspoken series of TV reports since See It Now," Edward R. Murrow's pioneering 1950s series...
Documentary programs are seldom profitable for the networks. ABC News Closeup, for instance, often appears without a sponsor, despite its respectable monthly audience of from 7 million to 20 million viewers. Yet ABC will pour $2.4 million into Closeup this year, largely for its prestige value. "Every time Closeup wins an award or gets a good review, our lobbyists in Washington run to every Congressman they can find with the clips," says a pragmatic ABC executive. "That's so the next time a Congressman starts screaming about sex and violence on TV, we can point out that they provide...
...older boys) she appears to be a sex sym: bol, impure and simple as her long, sinuous body-high fashion, but with some meat on her smoothly articulated bones -slithers into closeup, her navel twinkling as invitingly as her sequins. Then, however, a shy smile splits her deadpan. As she speaks a few words of earnest greeting in her curiously flat voice, Pop and the other males see they can afford to relax. Underneath all that finery and a ceramic of makeup there is a rather awkward, imperfectly beautiful girl. She appears no more daunting than the nice...
...best moment in the movie is Rubinstein's most private one. He visits Israel's memorial to the Nazi holocaust. More than one hundred members of his family had been killed by Hitler, and the camera moves in for a tight closeup of his reaction. Rubinstein, simply and without show, turns his back and, as the camera pursues him, walks away, keeping his face averted until he has composed himself. In this short scene, we get a sense not only of the passion but the deep dignity from which such a great talent is born and nurtured...