Word: steam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nixon staff, confident that the willingness to release the tapes had taken the steam out of the impeachment drive, was dismayed to find that criticism of the President continued. The drastic reversals in policy by Nixon even seemed to worry some critics anew. In a particularly unkind cut, AFL-CIO President George Meany not only said that his union still wanted Nixon out of office, but added: "The events of the last several days prove the dangerous emotional instability of the President." The White House felt obliged to dignify this with a reply. Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren called...
Some of the dumpyard creations are startling in their originality. They cling to treetops, hug mountainsides and nestle in wooded ravines. They offer a hodgepodge of winding exterior stairways, overhanging balconies and thatched roofs with soaring pitches. The interiors are equally daring. Polished steam engines serve as stoves; old windshields make unorthodox solariums. In fact, these houses have everything but the basics. The bathroom is often an outhouse. Electricity and central heating are rare. But there is more to life than utilities, or so say the owner-builders, who value the karma of self-expression over the convenience of plumbing...
...teenagers in George Lucas' Graffiti are a generation bursting out of its skin. In a small town and a '62 world there's no road for their rock and roll anxiety to follow: they jump in their drag racers and drive back and forth on the strip, letting off steam. Teetering at the brink of a world not quite ready to release the new energy of a frontier mentality, the kids have a brief moment of loud, confused frenzy before they go to Vietnam or settle in the suburbs...
Mean Streets discards this method. When Scorsese builds up the pressure there's no release: there are no orgasms to let off the steam, and the violence lashes out like a lizard's tongue--it never changes anything, and the high tension prays relentlessly on an audience. The bursts of voltage are supplied by the setting: a needle in an arm, a siren, a scream, a Fat City sequence of a man waking alone ringing with hangover and dreams burning off fast, shrill urban music--devices like these make up for hours of narrative padding or careful ambience-building...
Hundreds of Russian fishing trawlers steam daily through Maine's coastal waters, just outside the three-mile limit, depleting the supply of fish and incensing the coastal inhabitants who rely upon the sea to make a living. This is the major issue in Lubec--as in many of Maine's coastal towns--and Cohen has introduced a bill in Congress to establish a 200-mile off-coast limit for the United States to ease the situation...