Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normal national life. In fact, when you are traveling through the cities and even along the borders, it is hard to believe that the nation is at war. There are many soldiers, and Arabs are stopped at road blocks and their cars are searched while you zoom by. If you are not busy thinking how humiliating this must be for the Arabs, you might begin to think about what the Israelis are looking for. Yet there is little sense of actual physical danger; in fact, the danger is slight. The terrorist attacks within Israel are pretty much under control...
...British colony with 316,022 people and 340,000 head of cattle-the tourist business represents what may be the country's only chance to diversify its peanut-based, peanut-size economy. The locals catch on fast. As soon as the tourists arrive, bar, food and taxi prices zoom. The Atlantic Hotel charges an extra $1.50 a day to turn on one's room air conditioner and 50? for a daily shot of mosquito spray. Toast for breakfast? One must make a personal request to the manager...
...VIRTUE of The Damned is that it accepts the devices which make current film-making flabby: the zoom and the telephoto lens, artificially colored lighting, freely structured compositions, and long takes. Then it shows what a man with guts, who teants to make this picture, can do with these techniques...
...garbage about what the public would accept stand in the way of his imagination. When I began the book I expected to see the usual massculture view of the future world: the glory of the future American superstate-usually a "World Government" democratically ruled by Americans-in which supercars zoom over mega-highways toward ultracities. But on page 21 found myself staring at the Destruction of the Washington Monument by the Mongols...
...Pink, orange, purple, and green clouds drift through the skies over Boston. Small ones cruise down to the Government Center, zoom around City Hall, and leave towards...