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klieg

kind of arc lamp used as a studio light, 1921, from Bavarian-born U.S. engineers brothers Anton and John Kliegl, who invented it.

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klieg

n. Any of several intense arc lamps used in cinematography

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Yet it was all around them, diffused and filtered, like the light from the klieg lanterns which was making a blue pattern on the bed.

But that, of course, the head of Klieg reminded himself, was exactly what the cyber was.

The Master of Klieg looked tired, haggard from a growing sense of the inevitable.

She was looking past me at Alis, and her face had the bleak, slightly dazed look klieg produces.

Heada mooch for me, instead of taking klieg by mistake and having to worry about flashing on Mayer and carrying an indelible image of him around in my head forever.

I was on the klieg, I was listening to Alis talk about wanting to be a dancer, and I suddenly realized there was nothing I wanted, except chooch and getting popped.

I looked at her face it would be freeze-framed on my brain forever, klieg or no klieg, afraid if I did she might be looking at me kindly, or, worse, not be looking at me at all.

He had gotten from the steps, the broken glass of the klieg crunching beneath his feet, and he was almost at the light when a cop pulled him back.

Once through the tangle of vehicles, cameras, klieg lights, and humanity, Montoya hit the gas again.

I was staring was a klieg, a huge theatrical lamp with a golden gel on its face, and the damned thing was directly in my eyes.

They tossed me around like a metal bearing in a pinball machine, and every time I dropped my hands from my eyes to swing on someone, I caught another, fresh blast from that damned klieg light.

Before his head could even come up, the entire horizon behind the mountains flashed bright white in a lightning ripple of strobes, as if klieg lights the size of a state had been flicked on and then off, lighting up the valley for almost four seconds as if it was bright daylight.

Gary Grady asked, indicating the panic and turmoil and insanity of the crowd below as it reacted to the darkness and now the flickering of powerful klieg lights.

I wanted to go down to a clean stream and wash away my duplicity, but I had been under the klieg lights a long time, and realized that I could do little to change opinions that were rigidly fixed from the preceding centuries.

At the side of the building, two sprays of water crossed in midair like a pair of klieg lights.