Auditioning for Williams, Brando was like lightning: electric and illuminating.
With electric lights illuminating its corners and clocks on two sides, it is a beacon of futurity.
This "Girl Power" was then, as it remains, the property of an electric corporation illuminating female achievement with all the wattage of a Wannabe.
The lightning crackled and pointed at the sky, an electric finger illuminating the awkward mom on the playground who always forgot her umbrella: ME.
Actually, Times Square's storied light-show legacy depended on one man: Thomas Edison's engineer William J. Hammer was one of the first experts in electrical distribution systems and built the first large electric sign, illuminated at the 1882 Crystal Palace Exposition in London.
Inside, 1,000 electric lights illuminated more gilt tracery, Numidian marble, onyx and gold mosaic.
Before the generator cuts off for the night, I pause outside the staff house, where a pair of electric lights illuminate a painted wall.
In Jeff Epstein's "Night School," the eerie glow of electric lights illuminates a nostalgically familiar building that dates back to the late 1960's.
Inside "Red Cabinet on Wheels," electric lights illuminate neatly arranged rectangles of cardboard painted glossy yellow or red, and metal ice-cream sundae dishes holding spoons and dollops of concrete.
When the luxurious Bellevue-Stratford Hotel opened its doors in Philadelphia in September 1904, electric lights illuminated the hotel's 1,000 guest rooms, lobby, dining areas, and meeting spaces.
No other major supplier showed an interest in trying to woo residential ratepayers away from the two major electric utilities: United Illuminating, with 291,000 customers in the greater New Haven and Bridgeport areas, and Connecticut Light and Power, with 1.2 million customers in the rest of the state.
