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American law permits divorce, but reluctantly. It is a deeply rooted Western tradition that the partners must be somehow punished for ending a marriage. Hence the squalid court fights, private detectives with strobe guns, ruinously expensive lawyers' fees and the weeks at Reno dude ranches. A quarter of American marriages end in divorce, and most of the divorces are doubly bitter because of the judicial process that formally pits the parting husband and wife against each other...
...Peter Pan. Each act and character is introduced on the giant overhead movie screen with clips from the appropriate Disney movie. Around the edges of the portable stage is a 6-ft.-wide Fiberglas border containing sound-sensitive lights, which respond to the beat of the music, plus ten strobe lights. And, in the middle, a 24-ft. turntable. When all of this gets moving, the stage looks for all the world like a preschool psychedelic trip...
...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...