Word: choreographer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston studios where Zoom is produced for public television, grownups coach, suggest, choreograph and keep a professional rein on things, thus avoiding the anarchy and flatness that sometimes bedevil NBC's hourlong, live Take a Giant Step. But the kids have the last say. Producer Christopher Sarson originally wanted a problem-solving segment patterned after the "Dear Abby" column, but the Zoom cast vetoed the idea: they felt they lacked the experience to solve problems for their peers. At the end of last week's show, they urged young viewers ("Zoomers") to write in for song lyrics...
Such shots require a precise and intimate knowledge of the game, and no one is more aware of what is called for than CBS Director Tony Verna, the man who will choreograph the coverage of this week's Super Bowl. An 18-year veteran of TV sports coverage, he has been drilling his squad of 100 technicians and production people with the single-minded drive of an electronic Vince Lombardi. He is studying game films and continually revising his play book, a 36-page treatment of the deployment and minute-by-minute moves of men and equipment...
...Marnee Morris, Patricia McBride, Karin von Aroldingen). The mood of each dance is bittersweet romantic; yet they are wholly different in shape, tempo and feeling. And Balanchine's leaping, exactingly athletic solo for D'Amboise, in Liza, should forever dispel the snide rumor that he does not choreograph well for male dancers...