Word: bulb
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...help; we don't know where even moderately good ideas come from. Robert Harris, whose chilling novel Fatherland imagined what Europe might have been like had World War II stalled out in an English defeat and a U.S. withdrawal, makes a brave try at construing genius, the light bulb over the unicorn's head, in his new novel, Enigma (Random House; 320 pages; $23). The results are worthy and believable, if not luminous...
Gritz: As a former demolitions instructor and professional saboteur, I know there was a method involved in this bomb that no one has brought out. It's called reflective wave, and it's the difference between an incandescent bulb and a laser beam. That bomb was focused, using a method that only professionals know about. This methodology is within a limited number of minds within the military who train the cia, and this makes me think there is something besides Timothy McVeigh here...
Jennings and Mitzi Osborne's Little Rock home won't be as bright this year -- and that's just the way the neighbors want it. The Supreme Court refused the Arkansas couple permission to turn on a massive, 3.2 million-bulb Christmas light display in their yard. Neighbors had sued to shut down the lights, complaining that traffic drawn to the spectacle had made them virtual prisoners in their own homes. The Osbornes had claimed that limiting their display would infringe on their freedom to celebrate the birth of Christ. The Court found nothing in the Osborne's religion mandating...
...three characters share a preoccupation with light, electric and otherwise. Ward wields a gadget with blatant Freudian implications. It is a light bulb attached to a long rod and disk which he uses to inspect people and swings like an orchestra conductor. This rod is one of several futuristic props which look annoying awkward in the play's early 20th century setting. But the more Ward dangles and sways it, the more interesting it becomes. As the trail of the light bulb moves back and forth like a pendulum, it induces a trance which is bolstered by the constant whir...
...once Disney has mostly succeeded in the game of subtlety, addressing tensions between the environment and industry. The three tall tale-ers have been living outside of modern progress. They stand bewildered in the face of encroaching industrialization. When Pecos hears about inventions like the telegraph and the light bulb, he is incredulous. "You're telling me a tall tale," he says to Daniel. With horror, Paul and John try to imagine a world run by machines...