Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crusty, capable veteran news producer at NBC, regrets that nowadays "what television does uniquely, the transmission of experience-what was it like?-is a rare and accidental accomplishment. Television has become something to listen to from the next room. So has television news." Frank scorns "split screens and zooms and star bursts and insets and flip-overs" to give pedestrian words a visual interest, or the trite use of canned "truck shots down the aisles of supermarkets, wheat pouring into a boxcar, a slow zoom into the Capitol dome." He sighs for a past day when the camera...
...bubble with his gum it pops with an immediate cut to the thunderous roar of a war scene on the movie set. Rush has the rare ability to lift the viewer bodily from his seat with a shift of perspective, to paralyse the metabolism with a twist of the zoom lens...
...pigment and chromosome, the 1980 Democratic Convention was nearly perfect. Television directors were ecstatic as they ordered their crews to zoom in on the U.S. profile spread across Madison Square Garden, from pink cheeks with a hint of baby fat to wrinkles and wattles, from deepest ebony to lily white, female and male...
Borrowed money is the plasma of U.S. business. It provides the energy to build factories, finance inventories and meet payrolls. But across the nation, businesses large and small have watched their borrowing costs zoom as the Federal Reserve slowly tightens credit in an attempt to restrain inflation. While this credit pinch affects every business, it is especially serious for small business. And what is serious for small business is serious for the economy as a whole...
Trailing early in each contest, the Crimson proved it can come from behind, pounding out 8-4 and 10-4 victories to zoom atop the Eastern League standings with a 5-0 record...