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2007 film There Will Be Blood,
This movie was dull.
In his manhood he worked in a cotton mill, but then a coughing fell upon him, and he had to leave;
Byssinosis - an occupational hazard for cotton, linen & hemp fiber workers.
"In the good old summertime—in the good old summertime! In the good old summertime—in the good old summertime!"
Their version of English speakers listening to Gangnam Style? Or the Macarena?
They advertised "potted chicken,"—and it was like the boardinghouse soup of the comic papers, through which a chicken had walked with rubbers on.
old rancid butter left over in the grocery stores of a continent, and "oxidized" it by a forced-air process, to take away the odor, rechurned it with skim milk, and sold it in bricks in the cities!
They still do this with dairy products.
a good part of what it buys for lamb and mutton is really goat's flesh!
Barbecued goat is delicious!
fruit seller
FRUIT SELLER!!!
a tall, smooth-shaven man, very thin, and wearing black spectacles,
This guy seems familiar for some reason.
Don't drink the Flavor-Aid, man.
Government oppressed the body of the wage-slave, but Religion oppressed his mind, and poisoned the stream of progress at its source.
"the stygian midnight of American evangelicalism—"
It ain't over yet. 100 years later & we're still in the 2nd Dark Age.
There was only one earth, and the quantity of material things was limited.
I'm tellin ya...
Beneath the hundred thousand women of the elite are a million middle-class women, miserable because they are not of the elite, and trying to appear of it in public; and beneath them, in turn, are five million farmers' wives reading 'fashion papers' and trimming bonnets, and shop-girls and serving-maids selling themselves into brothels for cheap jewelry and imitation seal-skin robes.
Media influences us still
machine which would wash and dry the dishes, and do it, not merely to the eye and the touch, but scientifically—sterilizing them—and
First dishwasher was patented in 1886.
The first fax machine was made in 1843.
Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian actress who starred with Clark Gable, invented wi-fi.
