Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community at a glance, from St. Ignatius' Catholic church at one end of town, past the wooden row houses and empty storefronts in the center, to onion-domed St. Mary's Russian Orthodox church at the other. But a more careful look reveals something else: acrid-smelling steam coming from the ground. Centralia sits on a bed of fire; it is its own hell on earth. The steam rises from pipes in the middle of Route 61, from vents in the yard of a gas station, from six tall stacks on a hilltop to the right...
...Sulfurous smoke and steam, produced as the fire has heated underground water, have continued to rise through vents in the surface; heat has continued to build. Tom Coddington found in 1979 that the temperature in the underground gasoline storage tanks at his Amoco station had risen to 172° F. He was forced to drain the tanks to avoid an explosion. A few months later Coddington, who lived with his family in an apartment above the station, was overcome by carbon monoxide and rushed to a nearby hospital. Since then he has moved his family to a trailer...
...eliminated Charlie's sexist remarks and reduced both the S-M and indeed all sex to largely symbolic situations. It became fairly standard, for example, for one of the Angels to be trapped for long minutes in some burning building. The variety of threats seemed endless-the scalding steam bath caper, for one, or the cruise ship with the homicidal maniac aboard, or the time the face-lift farm was taken over by mobsters...
...liberal ideals of the time were joined by a new cause, as the civil rights movement began to pick up steam during the 1950s. The attitude of most college students was one of concerned interest, but they expressed almost none of the spirit of activism. "I would sense that few of us knew much about Blacks, but there was a great sense of social duty. We were ripe for a civil rights movement," Rosenthal says. An important catalyst was the 1954 Supremem Court decision, Brown versus the Board of Education, which enlarged many of the issues for the Cambridge denizens...
...trying to say that the world is so rich and inexhaustible that writings can never keep up with it." Perhaps not, but Calvino makes a manly effort. It all begins with that traveler on that winter's night in a railroad station. Outside, much fog. Inside, much steam from the espresso machine. Suddenly the reader stumbles into the kitchen realism of a Polish novel featuring an onion being fried by a young woman called Brigd. Franz Kafka would be right at home...