Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read to an audience of three: Hartmann, his deputy Robert Orben and Media Consultant Don Penny, a former stand-up comic who played a key role in improving the President's pace and delivery. Then Ford started running through the speech before a camera connected to a video-tape recorder and played back the tape so that he could watch his own performance. His coaches managed to minimize some of his idiosyncrasies-stumbling over words, dropping his voice to a melodramatic hush inappropriate to the context, exaggerating rhetorical flourishes in a way that made them seem artificial...
...President took his video-tape unit to Kansas City to continue rehearsing right up to the beginning of the roll call of the states on Wednesday night. Practice made perfect-or almost. Concluded a satisfied Hartmann: "If he had two weeks to work on every speech, they'd all be that good...
...girl who mysteriously prowls the space lab in a blue negligee? "Is she real?," Kelvin asks Snauf, the last astronaut. "Is she human?" Snauf only laughs, wildly, wickedly. A panic starts to grab Kelvin, like a pounding hangover on a clammy summer morning. No more Mr. Imperterbable. On a tape made just before his suicide, Gibaryan tells Kelvin nervously not to think that these "guests"--the apparitions--are just figments of his imagination. After all, he tells him, this is no longer Earth...
...early training as a stage mother. Chris Schenkel displayed his familiar aptitude for the gauche remark. Said Schenkel when Queen Elizabeth's daughter Anne got back on her horse after a spill seen round the world: "That's a gritty little princess." A lot of time and tape was wasted on discothèques and street scenes. Pierre Salinger floundered through several such features until he abandoned Montreal's tourist haunts to report from the stadium itself...
...frequently blunted the visual poignancy. In fact, except for hard information and fast reports of the results, most of the words heard during the Olympic coverage functioned mainly as stepping-stones in the flow of images. If there was some confusion about what was "live" and what was on tape, it hardly made a difference. The men of the electronic age were desperately trying to tell a story that would not overload our frayed human wiring. The degree to which they succeeded was summed up best by Novelist-Screenwriter Josh Greenfeld: "On Tuesday afternoon I didn't know anything...