Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Dodd has established himself as the popular favorite, mood at Buckley campaign headquarters remains optimistic. Ed Marabito, assistant press secretary for the Buckley campaign, acknowledges that the race "has always been an uphill fight," but that Buckley has picked up steam all along the way." Steam, however, is not expected to produce victory this week...
...LEVELS, the production loses steam after intermission. To be sure, this is in part Wedekind's fault; Spring's Awakening starts to flail away in the end, as if the author is in a hurry to get to his striking climax. Still, this only calls for a greater focus on the director's part. Instead, Prum flails even more than Wedekind. Scenes take on the flavor of sketches from Saturday Night Live; the light, controlled parody that distinguished the first half lumbers now in its obviousness. Worse, it gets turned back on the play and the production itself, always...
...like Hitler's 1000-year Reich, it ran out of steam long before anybody expected. Where American ideals and ideas once inspired millions worldwide with hope for the future, the nation now perceives itself as spiritually bankrupt and narcissistic. As the obsession with the gilded past and tragic future continues, it becomes imperative for historians to bulldoze the mythology surrounding the rise and decline of American culture and clear a space for honest interpretation of the bygone era. Ronald Steel depicts American political history through the life and work of Walter Lippmann '10, and achieves a syncretic vision...
Late last week, several picketing engineers at the plant--which services 13 hospitals and Medical School buildings in the Mission Hill area--said they saw black smoke spewing from the facility and heard smoke alarms sound. Tritman said the plant had experienced a "steam blowout, which has happened every so often" since the plant started operating this summer...
...battlefronts, however, there was no evidence of waning enthusiasm. The initial assumption of many Western intelligence experts that the war would run out of steam within two or three weeks was being reappraised. Military analysts noted that neither side had yet committed all its weaponry and military resources. The bellicosity of both antagonists, along with an absence of common negotiating ground, now suggested that the war could drag on for months. Said a senior British diplomat: "Iraq can't bring Iran to its knees, and Iran won't negotiate under duress. That's the dilemma...