Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...limited. He could storm the place and forcibly eject his hard-to-estrange wife, but at the risk of never winning another woman's vote in Maryland. As a friend of the Governor's observed: "If she goes, she'll have to go under her own steam." He could file for a Maryland divorce, but since it is contested, he could have as much as a three-year wait. If he sought a speedier divorce elsewhere, he would have to establish out-of-state residence, and thus give up his office...
...Yeah, I think there is. He can be fairly earthy in private, as most presidents are in private. And presidents have to be able to blow off steam in private, which they do--and he does. So there's a lot of stuff on these, I'm sure, that listened to in the whole context of that conversation, and of other conversations preceeding it and following it, and other things that were going on, are quite acceptable--but lifted out of context, could be used in all sorts of very grossly misleading ways damaging to him, damaging...
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...