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And then there was the old man of the boards, Ronald Reagan, a show business artifact whose time has come round again through video tape and the minicam. Reagan kept his eyes on the lens and himself under control, and he appeared on the screen as just about the only...
That year Polaroid brought out the revolutionary SX-70, the coat-pocket-size folding fully automatic single-lens reflex camera; it popped out film that developed sharp color prints while one looked at them. After some initial start-up problems with the SX-70, the mass-market One-Step and...
Reagan is watching his campaign slowly slip away, the sand crumbling under his feet, like a kind trying to stand in the backwash of the surf. There are still hopeful signs; Reagan speaks of a "national constituency" explaining that Iowa (and, perhaps, New Hampshire) aren't as important as America...
Stoessinger could have added the names of Khomeini, Gaddafi, Khalid, Schmidt, Giscard, Ohira, Brezhnev, Lopez Portillo, Torrijos, Thatcher-all humans magnified mightily by the television lens, transposed into looming actors on a global stage.
The lens never was found; but the Big Green soon was brought to its knees again when Ellen Jakovic crossed a short ball from the right side to Ferrante, who booted it into the net at 19:39.