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...point, after organizers set up a sound system, strobe light, and invited a disc jockey to spin tunes, the demonstration attracted about 80 people...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Administrators Fear Sit-Ins, Call for Extra Security | 4/7/2000 | See Source »

Among the improvements was the installation of fire alarms that flash a strobe light in addition to sounding an alarm when activated...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holding Fire | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...awkward teenagers at a disco, neither India nor America seems to have the wherewithal to get the other to touch-dance. President Clinton is set to visit India in March, but the tentative nature of this week's talks between Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and their Indian counterparts underline the fact that relations between these "natural partners" remain bedeviled by history and geopolitics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can America and India Fall in Love at Last? | 1/21/2000 | See Source »

...tactics in Chechnya may be missing the point: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was the undisputed winner of last weekend's Russian parliamentary election precisely because of his get-tough act in Chechnya - and because he stuck his jaw out in the face of Western criticism. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott on Thursday chided Moscow for failing to observe international human rights standards, and there was certainly no lack of evidence to back his claim: Russian forces continued their relentless pounding of Grozny despite the presence of thousands of civilians in the city, and the Russian military opened a criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Slams Russia Over Chechnya | 12/23/1999 | See Source »

...voice-over creates the impression that the actors are merely odd configurations of marionettes. In this scene, people have fully transformed into machines. Helen's appeals for mercy seem to be almost rays of light bouncing off the darkened stage, for she is the only lit figure. Suddenly, strobe lights destroy the darkness, and the execution is complete...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Machinal: Story of a Shocker | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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