Word: telephotos
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...press spokesman, the normally sedate Michael Shea, called the peeping Tom photographs "the worst sort of taste." It seems the prying paparazzi of the British press offended the royal family by capturing the straw-hatted Diana, Princess of Wales, vacationing on a Bahamian beach. The telephoto-lens pictures, taken by enterprising photographers from a nearby beach, were plastered all over the Sun, Britain's largest selling daily, and the Daily Star. It was a picture of a standing Diana in a strapless bikini, revealing her gently rounded royal tummy, that offended regal sensibilities most. The next...
...study, Albert Goldman struggles to take Presley beyond the familiar Late Show caricature. But the author's attempt, like his earlier Ladies and Gentlemen-Lenny Bruce!!, is filled with portentous speculations and lofty pronouncements about the American Dream and its dreamers. What Goldman does provide, however, is a telephoto focus on life behind the mansion wall of Presley's Graceland. Like the histories of those two other native recluses, Howard Hughes and Hugh Hefner, Presley's private existence was a medley of ritualistic fetishes. The public persona, however, was pure stagecraft...
Earlier that day Photographer Barry Iverson was watching a parade of Egyptian weaponry through his telephoto lens. He heard gunfire. In moments, he was staring at Sadat's fallen presidential photographer, who had "blood streaming from his face." Later, via telephone with NBC's Tom Brokaw in New York, Iverson was one of the first eyewitnesses to describe the scene to an anxious U.S. TV audience. Meanwhile, Wynn and Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt lined up an interview with Egypt's new leader, Hosni Mubarak, and Correspondents Roland Flamini and Jack White arrived from Bonn...
...other sneers. The camera shows President Carter speaking with utter gravity, but the two men can't discern what he is saying because the correspondent talks over the sound, paraphrasing the President's words. More beer. A tank's Red Star decal grumbles past the screen in telephoto proportions, and yet another correspondent reports that an estimated 10,000 Soviet troops are gathering on the Iranian border, within striking range of potential petroleum products that fetch more than a dollar a gallon on the street...
...about to commit a mortal sin or is about to register a political protest or is about to be, the Aristophanic view, snatched back to the human condition by the fireman in priest's clothing just visible in the window behind her, the one smiling at the telephoto lens. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images...