Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guggenheim method is cinema verite, edited to the point where critics could claim that it is more cinema than verite. He employs dramatic camera techniques and will shoot miles of film to get the few dozen feet he wants, then spend two weeks editing what took two days to shoot. He insists that his films do not change the candidate: "With any candidate, you maximize his assets, ignore his liabilities." Often he will sit off-camera, asking his candidate questions that did not get properly asked, or answered, the first time...
Guggenheim has adopted one method of the men he works for. When he takes on a candidate, he sends two advance men (in this case, women), who take a preliminary political reading before he takes his own. His camera crews are freelancers but work regularly for him. At the end, he will take his reels of film back to his spartan headquarters in Washington, where, with the help of a staff that numbers about 30 at campaign time, he does his editing. He also does his own writing. A recurring theme is the candidate who "cares...
...nonetheless offers a keen insight into the mechanics and mystique of baseball. To say merely that the books are about sports, however, is to tell the plot without describing its climax. They are really about people-and the fantasies, triumphs and humiliations of George Plimpton. ∙ The Plimpton method began simply enough as a journalistic gimmick, a conscious attempt to release the Walter Mitty in one man and, perhaps, in every man. If an amateur athlete could take the place of a professional and then write about it, he reasoned, every fan in the country would identify with...
...always succeeded in his daydreams, Plimpton always fails in his. If he ever won, the mystery of craft would vanish altogether. Still he must try. "I know that when I do these things," he says, "I hope desperately that I'll succeed at them." In fact, the Plimpton method is somewhat more than a reporter's gimmick. The product of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard and Cambridge, not to mention three centuries of New England ancestors, he always felt deprived of at least one thing. "I was never able to consider seriously doing what I could do quite well...
...left school at 17, learned management techniques on the job at Packard, Bohm Aluminum and Reynolds Metals. He went into business on his own at 24, arranging contracts and financing for deals to buy and sell small companies; sometimes he accepted stock as a fee. Partly through this method, Vesco in 1965 combined two tiny valve and control manufacturers to form International Controls, with 20 employees and sales...