The Great White House Firesale
tobacco fumes, leather, damp woolen uniforms and unwashed bodies.She had a confused impression of bare walls with torn wallpaper, rows of blue overcoats and slouch hats hung on nails, a roaring fire, a long table covered with papers and a group of officers in blue uniforms with brass butto...
The man in the darkened tollbooth opened fire and the shots caught Sonny Corleone in the head and neck as his massive frame spilled out of the car. The two men in front held up their guns now, the man in the darkened tollbooth cut his fire, and Sonny's body sprawled on the asphalt ...
Summer burns the fire. The dark water below opens its glittering mouth and I slither in, wannabe amphibian in a freshwater lake, sizzling in the cool. The bottom rises up to embrace my form, tall grasses whisper and circle my… Read more September 16, 2016 Lou over the ocean ...
Mayan cities were generally within 35 kilometers from other cities so they could communicate with smoke, fire or mirrors (shiny rocks), and thus maintain peaceful relations. The walls indicate that Nakun didn’t have the necessary alliances to trust they wouldn’t be attacked. The weather ...
28 EXT. CAMPSITE, PACIFIC CREST TRAIL - NIGHT 28 Wrapped in his own “The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly” poncho, Chris eats rice while crouched beside a campfire reading from Jack London’s White Fang. CUT TO: 29 EXT. PACIFIC CREST TRAIL - FURTHER NORTH - DAY 29 Chris is on the...
were meeting common death with the house they shaded. This was a great fire, the biggest in these parts for twenty years. The firemen drew back to safer distances. The rescued settee, which had not been carried out far enough, began to smolder, and no one would brave the heat to rescue...
Buck's feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud. He sprang back with a snort. More of this white stuff was falling through the air. He shook himself, but more of it fell upon him. He sniffed it curiously, then licked some up on his tongue. It bit like fire, and the...
The Great Fire in Chicago — November 4, 1871 The Chicago Newspapers Cheer Up—Chicago Shall Rise Again Letter from Horace White, Chicago Tribune, to Murat Halstead, Editor of The Cincinnati Commercial—Published in that newspaper—October 14, 1871. ...
譬如美国记者迈克尔·沃尔夫(Michael Wolff)的作品《火与怒:特朗普白宫内幕》(Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House),这本书揭露了特朗普政府的许多爆炸性内幕,诸如特朗普女儿伊万卡成为“首名女总统”的野心等,这本书出版后持续热销,卖出超过一百万本,蝉联《纽约时报》精装版非虚构类畅销书榜单第一名超过...