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SuperVia Revives Rio Commuter Rail Network.
International Railway Journal
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October 1, 2000|
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Rio de Janeiro's suburban railway network has a long history of deterioration. But now, following privatisation in 1998, it is coming back virtually from the dead.
THE suburban railway in Rio de Janeiro could have disappeared entirely by now but for the fact that it was handed over to a private sector operator two years ago. Indeed, one state governor proposed to build bus lanes in place of the track. Fortunately, Brazil's federal government rejected his idea in favour of privatisation.
SuperVia, the new private owner, has undertaken the slow process of ...
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Political seductions: the show of war in Byron's Sardanapalus.(Lord Byron)
Magazine article from: Criticism
; IN THE PREFACE to his play Sardanapalus (1822), Byron claims that...like Byron's fictional ruler, Sardanapalus, attempt to represent themselves...hands have wrought." (7) Sardanapalus performs this desecration of...
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Tragicomedy, bisexuality, and byronism; or, jokes and their relation to Sardanapalus.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language
; ...3) In this regard, Byron's Sardanapalus poses a considerable challenge. Marilyn...Butler declares that "Interpreters of Sardanapalus have to begin by deciding what genre...genres fuse together in the character of Sardanapalus. Byron recognized this when he characterized...
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The Death of Sardanapalus & Other Poems of the Iraq Wars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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Ancestral voices prophesying what? The moving text in Byron's 'Marino Faliero' and 'Sardanapalus'.(dramatist Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language
; ...exclusively textual figure of performance as it is articulated in Sardanapalus, another of Byron's historical dramas. Owing to considerations...still prevalent form of censorship that Marino Faliero and Sardanapalus apparently avoid by proje cting themselves as closet dramas...
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The Orient on the Victorian Stage
Magazine article from: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
; ...praised a new production of Byron's Sardanapalus, under the direction of Edmund Kean...performed a national duty by staging Sardanapalus . . . [he] implied that his production of Sardanapalus was prompted by his desire to familiarize...
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Delacroix: Leading light of the French romantic movement
Magazine article from: USA Today
; ...at Chios" (1824), "The Death of Sardanapalus" (1827), and "Liberty Leading...Greek independence. "The Death of Sardanapalus," perhaps Delacroix's most notorious...was inspired by Byron's 1821 play Sardanapalus about a hedonistic Assyrian king who...
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David Ray. The Death of Sardanapolus & Other Poems of the Iraq Wars.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Confrontation
; ...specimen, continues in The Death of Sardanapalus. Listen to the echoes of these lines...Delacroix's painting, The Death of Sardanapalus and in Mike Romoth's contemporary Sardanapalus in Guernica. Diogenes carried a lit...
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Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies
; ...is Delacroix's canvas The Death of Sardanapalus (1827), reproduced on the title...the painting in question depicts not Sardanapalus's death, which would follow upon...Burke's behalf (p. 65), and as Sardanapalus himself ought surely to have protested...
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Delacroix: Leading Light of the French Romantic Movement.(Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine)
; ...at Chios" (1824), "The Death of Sardanapalus" (1827), and "Liberty Leading...Greek independence. "The Death of Sardanapalus," perhaps Delacroix's most notorious...was inspired by Byron's 1821 play Sardanapalus about a hedonistic Assyrian king who...
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Song of the Orient
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...abounded in contemporary literature. Works such as Byron's Sardanapalus (1821) and Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh (1817) were not...Eugene Delacroix' opulently savage painting The Death of Sardanapalus (1827-28) and Victor Hugo's vivid lyrics in Les Orientales...
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