Word: beams
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...high school on horseback and, without benefit of a university degree (indeed, at age 14), conceived the idea of electronic television--the moment of inspiration coming, according to legend, while he was tilling a potato field back and forth with a horse-drawn harrow and realized that an electron beam could scan images the same way, line by line, just as you read a book. To cap it off, he spent much of his adult life in a struggle with one of America's largest and most powerful corporations. Our kind...
What good is a brilliantly intense, tightly focused beam of light? It can make a dandy weapon or torture device, as Sean Connery found to his dismay in the James Bond film Goldfinger. But while laser weaponry never really took off, lasers certainly did. Today they are used for, among other things, dentists' drills and delicate eye surgery, recording and playing back compact discs, measuring the distance to the moon, creating and viewing holograms, industrial cutting and welding, sending voices and data through the air and down optical fibers, surveying roads and building sites, generating energy in controlled-nuclear-fusion...
Because Malcolm's style emphasizes the investigations and interviews as that essence of her journalistic process, these perfect tangents and odd details tend to add up to something tangible. When she discovers inconsistencies among the documents and depositions, her words practically beam off the page: for an instant she transforms herself from cerebral commentator into Nancy Drew, and the excitement is infectious. In any case, though probably a minor work from this superior journalist,The Crime of Sheila McGoughfeels exceedingly comfortable, energetic, and lived in. This is no John Grisham thriller; instead, this may be the most innocently guilty pleasure...
...definitely can't explain that," Beam said. "Overall, you have to say it was a mediocre season, since we either played great or we played awful. We won games we weren't supposed to and we lost games we weren't supposed...
...usual, the Crimson littered the Ivy leader boards, with Hill ranking sixth in scoring (16.0 ppg) and first in assists (6.6); Clemente eighth in three-point shooting (41.7 percent) and 10th in scoring (14.7 ppg); Beam fourth in three-point shooting (43.3 percent) and Ewing third in blocks...