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...Pittsburgh last week, the optimism was as audible as the roar of the huge furnaces that poured forth white-hot metal day and night. Steel production is running ahead of last year, and orders are rolling in so fast that every week proves better than the last. First-quarter output should easily top 28 million tons -around 10 million better than hoped for. Looked at from any angle, the U.S. steel industry is off to what may be its best year ever...
Ashes & Fire. Portuguese love the fado most when they are away from Portugal; saudade, an untranslatable word that means something like galloping nostalgia, occurs in nearly every song. But even at home, the Portuguese seem eager to have their hearts broken. "A wild group of students can roar into a tavern," a medical student says wonderingly, "and immediately they become despondent, wailing their favorite fado." Positive-thinking Portuguese try unsuccessfully to combat this downbeat sense of life; if such songs must be sung, a Portuguese intellectual has urged, "let us suffer en famille and avoid letting foreigners think we have...
Throughout Devil's Disciple, satiric laughter undermines the pompous roar of hypocritical words and the beat of ceremonious drums. Dick Dudgeon, the devil's disciple, reveals the false sanctimony of his family, attracts the minister's holier-than-thou wife, and impulsively offers his life for the minister...
...head is only a matter of millimeters from the head of Sam and Ida Gutwirth's double bed. And Sam Sheir snores. Not only does he snore-his snoring style was described at a hearing in Brooklyn Criminal Court last week as "of gigantic proportions, an animalistic roar, lionlike, that vibrates the rooms...
...Munich's Eve bar, where the B-girls are affluent and fat businessmen roar like jungle cats, there is always something special for the sex-exotic eye. Maybe a dark-tressed Parisian stripper, full-bodied and beautiful, mounted on a prancing white horse. Or a trainer, three tigers and one notable nude, all together in a cage...