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...There's the involuntary shudder of pleasure when you recognize a regal Vanessa Redgrave sailing through a crowd of Turkish peddlers, as Michael York and Jacqueline Bisset airily overturn a huge cart of oranges and step up into their carriage. Best of all, the Orient Express itself billows out steam that becomes a cloud of suspicion and hidden motives; it pulls out of the station like a great ocean liner out of port, its wheels grinding out screams that are the counterpoint to murder and conspiracy. Finally, the Express stops dead in the middle of a Yugoslavian blizzard that turns...
...Orleans, for example, most of the terrain is marshy, and sanitary landfill is needed more than fuel. So the city will get landfill from garbage processed by a private contractor. Around Boston, nine communities will pay Wheelabrator-Frye Inc. $13 per ton to burn their garbage, which will produce steam for sale to a neighboring General Electric factory. Nashville, Term., which already burns 25% of its solid wastes to produce steam to heat and cool 23 downtown commercial buildings, now plans to double the input (and output...
...Headlines and eyewitness news, everywhere one turned, a sinister image was forming of olive-skinned men in hoods, pink-cheeked men in gray suits and straight-faced Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, and his computer, all working together to shut down the planes and gas stations and steam heat in Harvard Houses. The 1973-74 energy crunch didn't leave Harvard's children stranded or shivering, of course. But it gave them a scare...
...pass through 48 states, and expects to attract up to 2,000 visitors an hour at 76 stops. A four-car preliminary version of the train has already traveled 17,000 miles to 74 cities, harbinger of the full-size train to come. When that vehicle, powered by a steam locomotive, gets under way, it will be carrying such diverse samples of the national heritage as the first Bible printed in the U.S., George Washington's copy of the Constitution, a slave bill of sale, a lunar rover and a copy of the Louisiana Purchase deal...
...short, it seems that Jencks is too quickly discarding the all-too-plausible theory that the admission of the most aggressive, the most ambitious among the lower classes into the ranks of the privileged effectively and purposely "lets the steam off" the social cauldron...