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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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!!").
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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!!").
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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
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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
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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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