Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laser Magic--Future City. Cool if you're in the mood, or can get yourself in the mood for a laser son et lumiere spectacular. Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science, Friday at 9:30, 10:45, Saturday...
...laser-light shows that have lately been dazzling disco dancers and rock and even classical concertgoers are now being closely watched by a new audience. The Food and Drug Administration's Bureau of Radiological Health has begun sending inspectors to light shows to make sure that FDA safety standards are being met. The bureau recently informed the Blue Oyster Cult, a rock band, that its laser show needed readjusting, and last month it abruptly halted a preview performance of an M.I.T.-sponsored light show scheduled to run all summer on the Mall in Washington...
Peking's ground forces are not in much better shape. While Chinese-produced rifles (based on the Soviet AK-47) and grenades are of high quality, artillery and antitank weapons lack modern infrared and laser aiming devices. Most of China's tanks, moreover, are copies of Soviet products that are at least a generation old and no match for the powerful new T-72s that the Russians are beginning to deploy along the tense, 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet border. Even Peking's atomic force lacks punch. China has 80 nuclear-tipped missiles, but only...
There were 92 officially scheduled shows, up to ten a day for ten days. The fashion follies packed every hotel in Paris, attracting 130,000 visitors, including more than 4,000 U.S. buyers. With blaring rock music, laser-beam lighting, nightlong partying, topless models, onstage horses and at least one fistfight, the City of Light became Hollywood-sur-Seine...
...edgy, nasty place, a theater of disaster populated by grotesques. The white paper takes on the look of Manhattan's 42nd Street in summer, bombed out by midday glare. Whores, bums, flint-faced Irish cops, frazzled black pimps, rats, crocodiles up from some imagined sewer, sirens emitting Technicolor laser blasts of sound, bulbous cars belching their exhaust smoke, an S and M homunculus encased in glittering leather with the motto VIVAN LAS CADENAS (long live chains) worked in studs on its back?this, in Steinberg's ironic eye, is the American dream street (our equivalent of the Di Chirico piazza...