Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vaguely funny lines. They were doubtless too busy helping invent the film's visual effects, which most prominently include the gigantic mechanical tarantula with which Loveless hopes to induce a post-Civil War U.S. to surrender its sovereignty to him. But like men in frocks or the doctor's steam-driven wheelchair, it is just a sight gag--a one-shot deal out of which you cannot build intricately sustained comedy. The movie is loaded with this junk, but it has no authentic momentum or satirical viewpoint--and is finally lost to its own desperate, unavailing search for a laugh...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataPresumably, Greenspan will stop worrying too -? if he ever started. Many saw the Fed?s "bias shift" in May as a virtual rate hike, one that showed up in the market?s interest rates and took some steam out of stocks without the central bank?s actually having to do anything. Now, there are only two reasons for the Fed to raise rates at its June 29 meeting ?- to loosen up labor markets or simply to bare its teeth ?- and neither seems compelling enough for Alan & the Gang to act before the next meeting, in August...
...confident that animal colonies are in pretty good shape," he says. "They can drift for awhile without power because the building's well-insulated, and we can augment natural airflow with open windows, or heat with steam...
...administrators now say that it was the Kennedy Administration, the Great Society and consciousness-raising of the 1960s that brought the issue of race to the forefront. The Harvard admissions office responded full steam ahead, changing its recruiting strategies "almost overnight," according...
Some chalk up the lack of steam to the variety of ideologies among radical groups...