Word: steam
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What scalps would steam in our hands...
...white sky, hovers above the pool and terrace. The teen-agers stand at the bleary end of their orgy, having threatened to leap to death from their lofty playground if any grownups intrude. A black-frocked, airborne priest addresses them by loudspeaker: "You wanted some fun, fine. Letting off steam is healthy. We face an inspiring future-don't play into the hands of the Reds." The kids laugh. "So does God's word make itself heard," sneers...
...average standard of general physical fitness is adequate for skiing, Dr. Manson states. That is, you should be able to swim two or three lengths of the pool or play a game of tennis or squash without puffing like a steam locomotive...
Sidewalks are filled with bundle-laden shoppers, and store windows beckon with imported washers, steam irons, refrigerators and TV sets. Outside town, barefoot peasants pad along the dusty roads with $40 Sony transistor radios slung over their shoulders. "Prices are steep," admitted one merchant, "but that's what people are paying." New Experience. Prosperity is a new experience for Guatemala, which scraped along for years in the banana-republic image-without industry, unable to import what it wanted, or even pay for what it did buy. During the regime of cantankerous old Ydígoras, graft and inefficiency, those...
...effortlessly bends his narrative into brightly colored free forms that glow with spontaneity. His three wistful misfits will not stay put as creatures of fiction. They keep popping in and out of it, sharing their secrets with the camera, affecting musical comedy poses, cracking movie "in" jokes, letting off steam, then back again to play the youthful games that seem so much nicer in the movies-all set to background music that rattles along in cheerful parody of several dozen of the earnest scores for vintage Hollywood spectaculars...