Word: camera
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Sunday, when the camera zooms in for a closeup of the National Football League action, look carefully at the helmets. Chances are you will see the ) word Riddell emblazoned on the nose guard. Riddell Inc. of Chicago has 60% of the N.F.L. helmet market and a peculiar contract: if players use another brand of helmet, they must cover the maker's name. Riddell won that provision in return for supplying N.F.L. teams with free helmets, pads and jerseys...
...VISION: PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. This smartly conceived show, which introduces the Metropolitan's new Ford Motor Company Collection of 20th century photographs, highlights the camera's courtship of pure form. Through...
...crack cocaine is made," announces the pretty blond co-anchor. "And verbal judo on the traffic stop: how you can defuse a volatile situation," intones her handsome male partner over a videotape clip of a police officer approaching a car. To the beat of trendy theme music, the camera pans the posh living-room stage set -- complete with sofas, coffee table and potted plants -- before zooming in again on the two radiant hosts...
...also question the "video camera" concept. Unfortunately, the "start up costs" would not be the only costs of such a system. Video cameras break at a finite frequency, and about 150 cameras would have to be functioning for the undergraduate community alone. Furthermore, the cameras are worthless unless they are taping. Harvard would be required to maintain a small army of technicians not only to keep the cameras working, but also to to change and store the tapes...
...turned in the most impressive performance. With 14 camera crews, the Goodyear blimp, and savvy sports commentator Al Michaels on hand at Candlestick Park to cover the World Series, its sports division alone could probably have beaten the other networks' news divisions, as it did after the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Anchoring from Washington, Ted Koppel again proved that he is unsurpassed in the art of extracting facts from chaos. While CBS's Dan Rather was still stressing the "unconfirmed" nature of reports about the collapse of the Bay Bridge, ABC (along with the ever enterprising...