Word: strobe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plastic tent was set up in Harkness Common and was open to everyone who wanted to go in. Inside was a record player, a strobe light, and a small inner compartment which a few people could enter for intimate conversation...
...first commercial application of this "burping" principle is in a photographic strobe light being marketed under license by Honeywell Inc. No bigger than a cigarette lighter, the attachment can restore the light unit to full power in 15 minutes. Eventually, McCulloch expects the system to find a wide variety of home, industrial and military uses. And McCulloch engineers see no reason why the technique can not be applied to electric cars...
...area of the floor is ringed by tent-like walls and you feel like walls and you feel like you're in the middle of a growing plant. Another, a raised section, is entirely strobe lit, great waterfalls of light white light, and people dance as if bathing...
Some time later, when most of the groups had degenerated back into the love mounds out of which they had formed, Ted turned on the lights, announced the beginning of the "free dance," turned off the lights, and turned on a colored strobe. Some fast music began to play. In the strobe, to the music, worn out and relaxed by the exercises of the first half of the evening, everybody danced. They danced happily, passionately, playfully, romantically, with Ted leading them all. After an hour and a half, many were still dancing, and as one group of students turned...
...more harrowing than anything in 2001. Through the combined efforts of choreographer Elizabeth Martin and technical director Robert Seay, I found myself trapped in the center of the looting and sniping. It all begins in wild exhilaration--radios blare, clothes are thrown about, girls scream wildly. Then with strobe lights and recordings, the shooting surrounds you. When it ends, just a few groaning bodies remain. Real catharsis is denied...