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...Laser Beam. Her voice is only part of her appeal. At 31, Flicka is a trim size 8, with a modest but becoming bosom, rich brown tresses and a stage presence that somehow combines innocence and the poise of a pro. Says she, with disarming modesty: "I find solace in the fact that because of the ephemeral nature of the art, my performance, no matter how bad, cannot do permanent damage to Rossini...
Flicka's current range of roles is in some ways limited. Her voice carries like a laser beam into the farthest reaches of an opera house, but because it is not large she shies away from the heavy Verdi and Puccini, not to mention Wagner. She may be ready for some of that music in five to ten years, although she herself doubts it. For now it is enough that she sings Mozart (Cherubino in Figaro, Dorabella in Cost fan Tutte) with exquisite taste, control and sheen. Or that she can blend the impetuous and the spiritual so deftly...
...most absorbed collaboration was with Billy Klüver, a Swedish laser-research scientist from Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1966 they started a nonprofit foundation named E.A.T., or Experiments in Art and Technology. Its announced purpose was "to catalyze the inevitable active involvement of industry, technology and the arts." E.A.T. grew out of "Nine Evenings," a series of multimedia happenings held in New York in 1966. Its biggest project...
...concert is a study in controlled flash, spectacular but not gaudy. Even the trappings of the typical rock super-production-smoke bombs, laser beams, meticulous lighting and shifting backdrops-are used sparingly, for maximum effect. McCartney, wide-eyed, boyish, bounces along eagerly on the warm good will of the crowd. He swings into his syncopated little ditty Silly Love Songs, a current hit single (number two on the charts) taken from his latest hit album, Wings at the Speed of Sound, out two months and already gone way past gold (a million dollars' worth of album sales) into platinum...
NASA scientists estimate that measurements made during the first four years of the program should be accurate to within four inches. But eventually, once the measurement techniques are perfected and more laser stations become operational, movements of the earth's surface as small as .4 in. per year, averaged over four years, will be detected...