Word: lasering
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...explain that the image is created by laser beams reflected onto a rapidly rotating screen, much as a television image is created by an electron beam scanning across a stationary phosphor screen...
...expensive turntables and library of LPs as out of date as Edison's first talking machine. This month Sony and Magnavox are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs, or CDs, that will sell for about $17. Says Dan Davis, vice president of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers: "There is a consensus that this is perhaps the most exciting of the breakthroughs in the field...
During the weekend alone, HMC used 26 computers, 10 laser printers, 10 copiers and made about 35,000 copies, according to Chavez...
...communications centers. Over the crump and flame of those explosions will sound the roar of low-flying F-117 stealth attack planes as they swoop undetected over air-defense centers--the computer-filled offices that direct missile fire against airborne attackers--drilling their targets with 2,000-lb. laser-guided bombs...
...Lewis on My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, may have figured that subtlety has no place in a story about the lunatic fervor of Irish extremist politics. Or maybe he figured his cast could make the gritty fantasy plausible. Day-Lewis very nearly does. His laser stare and world-class rope skipping, his very devotion to the project, elevate the film to check-it-out status and get the crowd cheering for him and his quest. Even in a slim tale like The Boxer, Day-Lewis is the serious-actor, movie-star goods...