Word: play-by-play
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...live T.V. feed projected the chefs’ deft handiwork onto a large screen, while emcee and HUDS general manager David Seley enthusiastically provided play-by-play commentary to a packed dinner-time crowd...
...palpable. Images of the cornet, relayed to the center at intervals of four seconds, loomed larger and larger on television screens, finally yielding by far the best look yet at an elongated shape near Halley's heart. It was the comet's nucleus. Giotto Investigator Wolfgang Schmidt, giving a play-by-play description of the images, could not contain his excitement. "It's obvious that there is structure on this nucleus," he exclaimed. "Mountains, hills, craters--incredible detail!" Suddenly the image froze and then, only two seconds before the spacecraft's closest approach to the comet, the screens...
...rights. It was believed to be the first live telecast of a regular-season high school football game in Texas, and where it lacked polish (an assistant coach: "One thing we'd like to do is get that sucker in the end zone"), it made up in enthusiasm (the play-by-play announcer: "That'll make it third and a country mile!"). During the broadcast, you could have fired a cannon down the main streets of either town and not hit a living soul...
...taken out of context, almost always become strangely profound. But this leads to the feeling that the songs are merely being overheard, that they are reporting something rather than making any statements—literally so in the case of “Venice,” a jokey play-by-play of an artist painting what seems to be an abstract crucifixion scene (complete with Italian voices and crowd noises...
...moved to men’s hockey his sophomore year and is now the play-by-play broadcaster for all of Harvard’s games. Every Friday and Saturday night, Wolff treks to either the Bright Center or to rinks all over New England and lends his voice to the Crimson faithful...