Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restraint made the opera's few moments of overt action all the more effective. As Hero Siegmund and Villain Hunding waged their battle at the end of Act II, a single, blinding white beam split the backdrop, silhouetting the struggle in all its throat-catching violence. When Wotan summoned the magic fire at the finale, the blackness was pierced by a single red spot, transforming Wotan's spear into a tongue of flame; in the inexplicit staging, these moments stood out in a relief that old-fashioned literalness could never achieve. The orchestra, which Von Karajan subdued...
Strauch said he would not make major changes in the work being carried on at the Accelerator, but that the emphasis on particular experiments might be altered. A large part of the efforts of Accelerator students and Faculty are now directed towards building a colliding beam facility, he said. The project will study the evidence of electro-magnetic forces and the creation of high-energy particles...
...chromosome closeups were made by German scientists at the University of Münster, using the recently developed scanning electron microscope. Unlike the conventional electron microscope, which forms an image by passing an electron beam through extremely thin slices of a specimen, the scanning device plays a fine electron beam back and forth across the surface of the object being examined. Electrons knocked out of the surface of the specimen by the scanning beam are collected and converted into signals that are projected on a television screen in the form of a picture...
...look at Al Vellucci. He grins as a grade school drill team from East Cambridge comes to have its picture taken with the City Council. Veteran observers ask him if the children's parents are good for 50 or 60 "number ones." Al's smile broadens into an angelic beam--it's all part of the game of Cambridge politics...
...dwindling income: with frugal selectivity but stylish aplomb. As she puts on weight, it becomes a little easier-but only a little-to believe that she is 47 and a grandmother. So she tones her act down to a quieter hush, focuses her emotions in an even narrower hypnotic beam, and makes the lifting of an eyebrow do what other singers strike poses to accomplish. "If I tried to be a vamp and manufacture sexiness, I'd really be funny," she says. "Anything that's forced comes over fake...