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...home, as it burns the life out of the people who exist somehow in its heat. As she becomes more engrossed in her confession, and her humble gratitude, the sun melts and pours down to her hard kneecaps; rusty and almost frozen, down on the unheated wooden floor. Steam and smoke from its melting drift upward and wrap themselves about her loins and her heart; finally centering and being released in the hot tears that fall from her eyes with each deep intake of breath and sharp gasp of sweetly curdled praying words...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...Another system, still being developed, would cope with the nitrogen oxides. * GM's compact Vega may offer a rotary engine as an option on 1975 models. Farther in the future are the steam engine, the gas turbine, the Stirling engine and, perhaps, a battery-powered electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Deadline for Detroit | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...experts observed that if addiction is partly the result of low selfesteem, "one can wonder whether the most appropriate corrective experience is to persuade the person of his worthless-ness." Members of Delancey Street, however, defend their rules on the grounds that they provide an opportunity to let off steam, teach humility and prepare the way for a kind of rebirth by erasing an addict's old image of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Getting Straight On Delancey Street | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

Picked Up Steam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bennett, Valenzuela Make Finals; White Falters in NCAA Fencing | 3/16/1973 | See Source »

While Valenzuela did not have as impressive a record as Bennett, the outgoing Crimson captain had no trouble making the finals. Valenzuela also started slowly, but he picked up steam as he went along in the competition. His 5-5 record in a tough pool, was easily good enough to qualify for the finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bennett, Valenzuela Make Finals; White Falters in NCAA Fencing | 3/16/1973 | See Source »

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