Word: lasered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Typical lasers emit one beam of a single, exact wavelength, but a group of researchers have created a new laser that can emit multiple beams of different wavelengths...
What Mulligan has that makes her stand out from other professional beguilers is a warm gaze with laser intensity, and the gift of thought transference: the viewer always knows what's going on inside her characters. She doesn't turn on the starkest emotions but finds them within her. When she gets the news of her brother's disappearance in My Son Jack, her devastation is both extravagant and acute; too much seems exactly the right amount. Her Nina in The Seagull wore emotions so raw that Mulligan was in a sluice of tears for nearly the entire evening...
...Chris] isn’t one to dabble around in half a dozen clubs and groups, but has picked what is the most important to him and has attacked it with laser focus,” McLoon says. “He is flexible enough to balance the science and sport...to do sports physiology projects for credit and to complete cycling workouts...
...what a study by the Rand Corp.'s National Defense Research Institute describes as an "expansive socio-political-economic conglomerate whose influence extends into virtually every corner of Iranian political life and society." Its commercial interests run into the billions of dollars and range from massive infrastructure projects to laser eye surgery. And in addition to the Intelligence Ministry, guardsmen control the ministries of Defense, Oil and the Interior...
...feels strangely ungrateful for this wealth of observation. Moore's narrator is Tassie, a rootless 20-year-old who signs on as a nanny with an unconventional couple who have adopted a baby. Moore totally overpowers Tassie with her brilliance--observing and recording with the laser eyes of an ancient sibyl, not a Midwestern undergraduate with low self-esteem. As the drifts of perfectly turned moments mount up about the reader's shoulders, along with a corresponding paucity of dramatic incident, forward motion becomes increasingly difficult. Moore is a great writer, but you wish that every once in a while...