Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Press Club in the U.S. had awarded him the George Polk Memorial Award for "courage, integrity and enterprise"-for the same kind of reporting that the Reds had called "spying." The State Department cautiously pointed out that the interview should not be construed as indicating that Oatis was any nearer to regaining his freedom than before...
...instead of a blinding blast of whiteness, viewers saw a pinpoint of white, surrounded by an oval of blackness. Three minutes later, the nearer cameras on News Nob were back in operation, televising the mushrooming of smoke as it climbed into the sky. The TV spectacle itself was anticlimactic, partly because the white glare produced blackness on the electronic tube. But the man responsible for the coverage had made television history...
...preliminary Study Card perched on every student's desk is an expendable nuisance. While it affords freshmen an excuse for hashing over study plans with departmental advisers, it is practically useless for upperclassmen--except perhaps to remind them that next fall is nearer than they like to think. The Card can prove an expensive reminder at that, for if students ignore it past May 1, they must pay a ten dollar fine...
...violence as he uncovers details of its operations. Excellent directive touches, like the sudden shift from the scream of a dying man to a blaring horn at the Country Club dance, symbolize Austin's transition from naive upper-middler to a hunted animal. And as his investigation gets nearer the truth, Captive City illustrates just how police pressure can be put on any reform drive that gets too embarrassing. Cambridge residents may recognize the "parking meter routine"--where police suddenly become overzealous in enforcing traffic regulations on certain cars...
...worker and his overlord. Each wrestles with the other to retain his inherited rights; yet it is clear that both are being beaten by rapid industrialization which forces everyone to abandon the traditional methods in order to survive. For two thirds of the movie each faction moves nearer and nearer to the inevitable clash. But, unaccountably, just at the point of pitched battle the cameras leave their social drama in the dust of a town square and turn their lens on a tragic but relatively uninteresting love story...