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...case, a plainclothes Harvard officer grabbed Gerstein's camera lens, the photographer said. Both Gerstein and Bachman said they were using telephoto zoom lenses which allowed them to take pictures without closely approaching the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Reporters Claim Assault | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...will be very slow," admits Emerson LaBombard, project director for the space sailer being developed by a U.S. team at the World Space Foundation in Pasadena, Calif. "In the first hour, we may zoom ahead and pick up a yard. In one day maybe 100 yards." But the acceleration would continue, ultimately resulting in speeds far in excess of 100,000 m.p.h. -- and without expending a drop of rocket fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Race To Mars? | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...murderer busy at his work -- a terrorized family here, a plugged-in TV salesman there. But director John McNaughton, who wrote the spare script with Richard Fire, shows few of Henry's dozen or so crimes. Instead he reveals the victims, at the scenes of their deaths, in slow zoom shots accompanied by elegiac music. He is a coroner with a touch of the poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: X Marks the Top | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...through his lens. But MoPic provides more than the title; he is responsible for the film's unique point of view. There is no editing in the formal sense. In the field the cameraman must pan from face to face to cover a scene and use his zoom for close-ups. Tracking shots are handheld, often on the run. Sequences end when the cameraman decides to shut off -- or when he runs out of film. We see MoPic only fleetingly, when, for laughs or in a final desperate moment, his comrades turn his camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Unseen Star | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...Right now track is third or fourth in my life, but in three weeks when nationals come around, it'll zoom up to number one, and I'm going to wish it had been number one all along," Rainey says with a smile. "I'd like to do better at nationals than I did last year. I want to go lower than...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: Rainey Is Thinclads' Renaissance Woman | 2/24/1989 | See Source »

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