Workers are getting scorched by the new Walkie Talkie skyscraper focusing a sharp ray of sun onto the pavement.
At 10 28 a.m., even where distant buildings beyond our site and control cast diffuse shadows, the public will see a dramatic and sharp ray of light defining the southern elevation of the Wedge of Light plaza".
The scene is from Lloyd's 1923 feature "Safety Last!," which is being reissued this week by the Criterion Collection in a newly restored and breathtakingly sharp Blu-ray edition.
And nearly every business is supporting nanotechnology -- the study of tiny molecular structures that could lead to such things as ceramics that withstand high heat, magnets that yield sharp X-ray images, and security systems that play color against particle size.
While new particle accelerators will keep looking for the dark matter particles and may eventually find them, said Dr. Paul Steinhardt, an astrophysicist at Princeton, the remarkably sharp X-ray optics carried by the observatory have changed how scientists approach one of the greatest mysteries facing them.
One of the more cerebral dramatists of his generation, the Obie Award-winning Jacobs-Jenkins delivered his first pieces on a sharp, powerful ray of thought, but it sometimes happened that his characters couldn't get out of the way of their own thinking.
A sharp X-ray of the embattled American psyche as well as a smart, tart critique of the country's fraying social fabric, Ms. D'Amour's dark comedy is as rich and addictively satisfying as a five-layer dip served up with a brimming bowl of tortilla chips.
By contrast, Franklin resolutely refused to speculate and insisted that only by carrying out better and better experiments and by taking sharper X-ray photographs of DNA crystals would the secret of its structure be revealed.
The 100GB BDXL Blu-rays Sharp unveiled today are nice and all, but they're useless with all Blu-ray recorders that are currently on the market.
