Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tunnel is a part of the University steam heating lines, and the temperature there is never below 110. "You can't call that good working conditions in any man's language," Blackmer declared...
...long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver whole generations of mankind to the greasiest fry cooks of nether Hell. But in half a century of blissful self-delusion he has failed to perceive that the family automobile is the most monstrous engine...
...clash between Blanche and Stanley (brilliantly enacted by Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando) gets real emotion and drama into the play. As in much recent writing about the South, the ugliness is easily offset by the fascination, and the South itself seems warm, vaporous, even visible in Streetcar, like steam on a windowpane...
Cresta seemed confident that the steam roller would not seduce...
...mock-ups of 17th Century garrets, inns and windmills are engagingly naive, and often drafty enough to send a chill through a steam-heated audience. The camera seems to eye everything with a cavalier detachment, and the sepia film gives the illusion that everything is seen through a blear of centuries...