Word: bulbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wistful Woody Allen, 45. "I'm not. It's just easier for me to work without a lot of attendant publicity." Thus when Manhattan's Vivian Beaumont Theater announced that Allen was writing a play to open there next month, those curious about The Floating Light Bulb were kept in the dark. Last week, however, Allen agreed to illuminate the work a bit at a photo session with Beatrice Arthur, Jack Weston and other cast members. "It's a modest little play," he insists. "The basic idea is an enclosed domestic situation, not really as large...
Regan is unabashedly reaching back for the future. His symbol of supply-side economics is Thomas Edison, who developed the light bulb, laid electric lines in New York City and created demand, precisely what the current economic doctrine is attempting...
...play begins with a suicide and ends with a duel. There is plenty of cynical merriment in between. At the center of the drama is an elegant couple, Friedrich Hofreiter (Keith Baxter) and his wife Genia (Jennifer Harmon). He is a light bulb manufacturer with a roving eye, and she practices blind decorum as high diplomacy...
...noisy inferno at Westinghouse's lamp factory in Bloomfield, N.J., a Unimate 2015G robot performs a process called "swaging." This is somewhat like making spaghetti, but it is done with 21-in. rods of yellow tungsten, destined to become light-bulb filaments. The robot lifts them off a conveyor belt and sticks them into a blazing furnace (3,200° F), then into a swaging machine that stretches the rods until they have grown to 37 in. in length and shrunk to exactly .467 in. in diameter. Three workers, each of whom cost the company $20,000 per year...
...hand, Simmons woman in the other, and stick together, they might be picked off one by one, left to rot in nurd purgatory. So they help each other out, getting the pledges dates, reminding a careless eager beaver that he's spending too much time under the high-intensity bulb with his organic chem models, and generally by being unnaturally cheerful...