Word: bulbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ordinary light, whether from the sun or a 60-watt bulb, consists of a jumble of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies. But a laser-for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation-generates a beam whose waves all have the same frequency and are perfectly synchronized so as to reinforce each other. Beams from very powerful lasers can burn through hardened steel...
Today's do-it-yourselfer is tackling bigger tasks than just changing a light bulb. He (or increasingly she) is doing complicated electrical and plumbing jobs that used to be considered hands-off for amateurs. Hardware stores report a growing market for difficult-to-install bathtubs and showers. Professional tools like a ramset, a heavy-duty stud gun that uses .22-cal. cartridges to drive nails into concrete, are enjoying wider use. Energy-conserving improvements, such as the installation of wood-burning stoves and clock-activated thermostats, are among the most popular weekend projects...
...Tiffany seemed content to rest on his considerable laurels as a decorator, having to his credit the nearly total redecoration of the White House for President Chester Arthur, and was concentrating on his glassmaking. He saw new opportunities in the invention of the incandescent bulb. Working with Thomas Alva Edison, he realized that something was needed both to soften the brightness of the new light and to conceal the bulb's unlovely shape. He came up with the lampshade that is perhaps his most famous design...
...tricks, and a few new ones, to Broadway. The new, modernized Blackstone slices a woman in half with a 36-inch rotary saw; he makes an elephant disappear; he turns a lady into a tiger. Birds vanish, and an eagle suddenly materializes. A glowing light bulb leaves the stage and floats up the aisles, with the magician close behind, spinning a hoop around it to show that there are no hidden wires. Thirteen grown men, volunteers all, tie Blackstone into knots - which he breaks faster than you can say his name. He is also assisted by a camel, a donkey...
Picasso's climactic work of the '30s was Guernica, 1937. In its way it is a classicizing painting, not only in its friezelike effect, but also in its details. The only modern image in it is a light bulb; but for its presence, the mural would scarcely seem to belong in the world of Heinkel bombers and incendiary bombs. Yet its black, white and gray palette also suggests the documentary photo, while the texture of strokes on the horse's body is more like collaged newsprint than hair...