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Nothing's final yet, but the university has hired a well-known Boston consultant to plan a day-long river fest along Memorial Drive--complete with a laser light show projected on misty water, veritable barges of floating musicians, and maybe even a birthday cake, courtesy of local hotels...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Put Substance Over Style | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

...started looking into these laser-beam things and stuff like that, but the research wasn't very promising. Well, I was having lunch with a few of the guys from the military-industrial complex last week and said, "C'mon, how hard can this thing be? You have a missile travelling six miles per second up there. Anything you throw at it is going to do some damage." Then the idea...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: Safety in Numbers | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...assume that life, liberty, and the pursuit of an American Express Platinum Card have something to do with it.) Because he, of course, is not endowed with any such powers, sneaky Omar is forced to hire a cockney magician to entrance the unenlightened masses with an haute-rock-concert laser light show which will somehow convince them that he is none other than their prophet-saviour, Al-Jaharah--who, by the way, is being held under house arrest in one of Omar's unused palace attics...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Boogie Down the Nile | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...want to help our hapless holy man escape from Omar's clutches, and walk all the way across the desert and up several steep cliffs just so she, Al, Jack and Ralph (Danny DeVito), whom they've managed to pick up somewhere along the way, can crash Omar's laser show and present the real jewel to his adoring public...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Boogie Down the Nile | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...only furniture. The walls are suggested by mottled backdrops resembling abstract paintings, with jagged window-like spots cut out and covered with wire mesh. A young amateur's play- within-a-play, supposedly taking place in the night air of this retreat in the Russian countryside, turns into a laser show that drags viewers' eyes to the theater ceiling. Naturalistic scenes are interrupted by speeches snarled at the audience, by Scriabin piano works played onstage and by dimly lit, nap- length silences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Arcane Framing a Seagull | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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