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  • This month's movie reviews
    The juxtaposition of poverty and nature in The Wolf of Wall Street launches visual salvos against pre-Oedipal anxieties.
  • This month's movie reviews
    The Wolf of Wall Street conforms to the fascist aesthetic through its political use of voiceover.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    He saw it all now.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    He fell thunderstruck on a seat.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    Passepartout had for an instant feared that he was on the wrong boat; but, though he was really on the Carnatic, his master was not there.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    It was already night, cold and cheerless, the heavens being overcast with clouds which seemed to threaten snow.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    The train left Oakland station at six o'clock.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    Book and news dealers, sellers of edibles, drinkables, and cigars, who seemed to have plenty of customers, were continually circulating in the aisles.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    It was supplied with saloon cars, balcony cars, restaurants, and smoking-cars; theatre cars alone were wanting, and they will have these some day.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    These platforms were found throughout the train, and the passengers were able to pass from one end of the train to the other.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    It was supplied with two rows of seats, perpendicular to the direction of the train on either side of an aisle which conducted to the front and rear platforms.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    The car which he occupied was a sort of long omnibus on eight wheels, and with no compartments in the interior.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    On leaving Omaha, it passes along the left bank of the Platte River as far as the junction of its northern branch, follows its southern branch, crosses the Laramie territory and the Wahsatch Mountains, turns the Great Salt Lake, and reaches Salt Lake City, the Mormon capital, plunges into the Tuilla Valley, across the American Desert, Cedar and Humboldt Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and descends, via Sacramento, to the Pacific.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    The Pacific Railroad is joined by several branches in Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    A locomotive, running on the rails laid down the evening before, brought the rails to be laid on the morrow, and advanced upon them as fast as they were put in position.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    The road grew, on the prairies, a mile and a half a day.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    The work was at once commenced, and pursued with true American energy; nor did the rapidity with which it went on injuriously affect its good execution.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    President Lincoln himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha, in Nebraska.
  • Around the World in 80 Days
    It was in 1862 that, in spite of the Southern Members of Congress, who wished a more southerly route, it was decided to lay the road between the forty-first and forty-second parallels.

Josephine Miller

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