Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television news." Frank scorns "split screens and zooms and star bursts and insets and flip-overs" to give pedestrian words a visual interest, or the trite use of canned "truck shots down the aisles of supermarkets, wheat pouring into a boxcar, a slow zoom into the Capitol dome." He sighs for a past day when the camera was not so much the servant of the word...
...Glitter Dome, Wambaugh...
...House, Clavell (2 last week) 2.Gorky Park, Smith (4) 3. God Emperor of Dune, Herbert (1) 4. Goodbye, Janette. Robbins (5) 5. Free Fall in Crimson, MacDonald (3) 6. The Covenant, Michener (6) 1. Masquerade, Williams (9) 8. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley 9. Tar Baby, Morrison 10. The Glitter Dome, Wambaugh
...GLITTER DOME by Joseph Wambaugh; Morrow; 299 pages...
...Glitter Dome, the Hollywood detective division is more M*A*S*H unit than police station. Its inmates have one common ambition: survival-from perpetrators and pistols, alcoholism and insanity, suicide and divorce. These are choirboys at the end of the song. Their angst is echoed on the mean streets just below the topiary of Beverly Hills: heroin, child abuse, pornography, snuff films and bizarre murder. When Film Studio Boss Nigel St. Claire is found with two .38-cal. bullets in his face, Al Mackey and Marty Welborn, a couple of Wambaugh's best creations, are called...