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...cinema-verite style exemplified the vanguard of documentary filmmaking: no interviews, no narration, no overt intrusion of the filmmaker's point of view. Since then, the technique has become something of a TV cliche. Prime-time shows from Hill Street Blues to CBS's 48 Hours have appropriated the hand-held camera and other slice-of-life touches. Even commercial directors have tossed away their tripods: cameras wander about relentlessly, trying to sell "reality" as well as Nissan automobiles and Levi's jeans...
Campaigning in New Jersey, Dukakis sought to capitalize on this advantage: he walked with a hand-held microphone among 500 students at the Pine Brook Junior High School in Manalapan to preach an antidrug sermon. At a later press conference, he once again criticized the Reagan Administration for cutting funds for antidrug programs...
Still more variations of CD technology are on the way. Two giants of consumer electronics, Sony and Philips, are getting ready to unveil a CD device that comes with a built-in computer and can be hooked up to a TV set. A hand-held controller allows users to interact with the images on the screen. ! Sony and Philips, which call their new system CD-Interactive, hope it will be as big a hit as the music CD player. Philips conducted the first public demonstration of CD-I last month, and industry sources say the system could be ready...
...Hand-held people meters for the members to rate the moving speeches of their peers. The meters could double as electrical prods to help Council Chairman Evan J. Mandery '89 tame wild debates. Or they could serve as magnets, to compel delinquent members to attend meetings they are missing...
...game. The toys are linked to a half-hour TV program called Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, in which the heroes square off against Lord Dread and his BioDread Empire. The television show is programmed with light signals that can be picked up by the viewers' hand-held PowerJets. Once the barrage begins, the show's villains hurl laser blasts at the screen, drawing fire from the player. If the PowerJet suffers enough enemy "hits," it ejects its pilot onto the floor...