Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once, the FBI's centralized criminal files seemed a gangbuster's marvel: a mere call to the computer in Washington could bring an instant rundown on a suspected Sacramento bank robber. Today Americans are more sensitive to the sinister uses of such rich stores of information. Massachusetts, for example, has gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that its own statewide criminal-data system contains safeguards. Access to the files is carefully limited by law, and any citizen has the right to examine and correct any entry under his name. One crucial point: in Massachusetts arrests are not listed...
...that takes place at cocktail parties or around a dinner table than in what might be said to a prostitute in bed." In Lambton's case, whatever security risk there was existed not so much in bed but behind the walls, where cameras and tape machines were recording instant history. Here was the danger that blackmail material might find its way into the hands of foreign intelligence agents...
...explicit acknowledgment of the camera's presence, Arbus shunned the technique popularized by Henri Cartier Bresson called "the decisive moment." This technique implies an unobtrusive use of the camera to catch people at the exact instant of time when they reveal a significant characteristic. From the photographs which result, it is easy to distill general truths that treat people only in a simplistic relationship to the larger mass of humanity...
...established to investigate the affairs of Architect John Poulson and the widespread charges of kickbacks in British public housing construction. With 46,000 copies left to print, Times editors learned that Poulson had been arrested and charged with conspiracy after a police investigation. According to British law, the instant a civil or criminal matter is formally brought before a court, newsmen risk jail for contempt if they publish more about the case than is revealed in open court. The Times felt that it had to yank the editorial from the remaining press run. In its place appeared much white space...
...Nixon's text and to a White House background briefing by Treasury Secretary Charles Shultz, who put the price freeze in perspective by comparing it to "shock treatment." Those who watched the President on CBS were spared such explication. The network went straight back to Sonny and Cher. Instant analysis annoys the White House when correspondents challenge presidential dicta. In this case, however, CBS simply ignored the Administration's own background information-a service to neither the President nor the public...