There are all sorts of Frankentrees on the market now: the fiber-optic tree with every needle lighting up; the custom-made artificial tree, fully assembled with a core light built in; the hinge tree for easy folding and storage; and the new plastic blow-up tree.
When at last he moved in, in time for Christmas 2009, he celebrated in a way the first owners would have understood — decorating with greenery, branches and ribbon-tied mistletoe; heaping dishes with quinces and other seasonal fruits; perfuming the fires with pine needles; lighting candles, and cooking a big, glistening copper pot of winter soup for family and friends to share.
His eyes are glass, each hair a needle of light.
"In this era, pocketable, connected cameras can reconstruct the world in three dimensions and superhuman detail, cars are able to perceive the objects around them without the need for special sensors, and robots are able to thread the elusive needle autonomously," Light said in a statement.
Wainwright, a brilliant comic buffoon, punctured his own and his peers' self-seriousness in needling, clownish light verse.
It looked like a knitting needle and lighted up at the push of a button, allowing a motorist to gauge distances when parking a car in the dark.
To overcome this problem, we used fine-needle interstitial light irradiation to shine the light into tumor tissues.
After removal of the needle and blue light illumination of the tissue sample, a positive red fluorescence could be observed.
Fifty or so worshippers crouch on the floor, which is covered with pine-needles and lighted candles.
In the course of recounting Stuart's story, Mr. Masters gives the reader a vivid sense of what it is like to be homeless: he conjures both the dangers of life on the street (people threatening one another with hypodermic needles and lighter fluid) and its fragile sense of fraternity.
