Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...zoom across...
...director with ideas, but not enough knowledge of craft to successfully execute them. For Nichols, each cut becomes a major problem of how to move from one shot to the next, a question of alternatives and careful choice: a zoo scene ends dismally on coy shots of monkeys; a zoom pull-back of Benjamin waiting on campus for Elaine is effective until we realize that Nichols has included it in order to effect a trick dissolve transition to the next scene; unable to end a breakfast scene legitimately, Nichols covers it with an easy laugh by cutting on the carefully...
...transcending the dramatic material. From this specialized, perhaps perverse, point-of-view, Hurry Sundown is close to Preminger's best film.
Vocational schools in Boston have reached a crisis. Less than fifteen hundred students graduate yearly, many in outdated jobs like painting, printing, and cabinet-making. But the demand for skilled workers in metropolitan Boston has begun to zoom, especially in the highly technical electronics and fabricated metals industries...
...most sports typical American reasoning holds that if one is good, then two are better, and three or four or even five are like zoom, man! Take, for instance, last week's Outboard World Championships at Lake Havasu, Ariz. To landlubbers, outboard-motor-boat racing may seem pretty put-put, and indeed, the rules at Havasu limited boats strictly to "stock" models - except that there was no limit on how many engines anyone could stack. California's Bob Ogle turned up with a 17-ft. catamaran powered by five 85-h.p. McCulloch engines, capable of doing 102 m.p.h...