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  • In Britain, Mr. Plensa's light-beam piece, "Blake in Gateshead," the Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art's only permanent art work, was commissioned in 1996.

    Jaume Plensa Is Deep in Thought Emma Crichton-Miller 2011

  • We have ratings here; we have to know these things, Chewbacca-like red-eyed hill guerillas lurking as ghosts, their light-beam eyes not unlike those of laser-sighted weapons, and the filtering action of Boonmee's kidney, which to my feeble mind created a gritty, valiant metaphor for the healing process undergone by a nation poisoned by war.

    Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

  • This is despite (as The Onion famously observed) Radio Shack's disturbingly awkward yet annoyingly glommy sales clerks, and the fact that you can't walk into a store without setting off a light-beam buzzer and feeling as though you've just stumbled into the chess team's basement during a whipit bender.

    would you like to save 10% and hit me in the face 2007

  • This is despite (as The Onion famously observed) Radio Shack's disturbingly awkward yet annoyingly glommy sales clerks, and the fact that you can't walk into a store without setting off a light-beam buzzer and feeling as though you've just stumbled into the chess team's basement during a whipit bender.

    lulu lumens 2007

  • That comment is from from a man who changed the world by imagining what it would be like to ride a light-beam (I've always had this image of him waving a cowbay hat and yelling, "Yee haa!!").

    The Sudden Curve: 2004

  • That comment is from from a man who changed the world by imagining what it would be like to ride a light-beam (I've always had this image of him waving a cowbay hat and yelling, "Yee haa!!").

    My Death Ray is Better Than Your Death Ray 2004

  • That comment is from from a man who changed the world by imagining what it would be like to ride a light-beam (I've always had this image of him waving a cowbay hat and yelling, "Yee haa!!").

    My Death Ray is Better Than Your Death Ray 2004

  • As I swept the light-beam around, it came to rest on a large thylacine, standing side on some six to seven metres distant.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • As I swept the light-beam around, it came to rest on a large thylacine, standing side on some six to seven metres distant.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • He leaned back against the soft turf, his hands behind his head, waiting for his partner to get through the light-beam obstacle.

    The Best and The Brightest SUSAN WRIGHT 1998

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