The symbol of the Lackawanna line was Phoebe Snow, a fictional character whose "gown stays white, from morn til night" because the railroad's locomotives used cleaner-burning hard coal, known as anthracite.
But with annual inflation topping 50% and the government burning through hard-currency reserves, Chávez's successor, Nicolas Maduro, appears to have no choice.
In Men Like Air, Tom Connolly presented the eye-watering revelation that "often she cooked exotic meals and put chillies or spices in her mouth while preparing the food and sucked him while the food cooked and then told him to fuck her while his manhood was burning rock-hard with fire".
I was hoping for more muscle from Mystery Road (Axiom, 15), a slow-burning, hard-scowling Australian thriller in which an indigenous Australian detective finds himself frozen out by both the white and indigenous populations while investigating a teenager's murder.
At another table, an industrial packaging duke from Nassau County was burning off a hard day on the job with a touch of hot jazz and several rounds of cold drinks.
Bad King Richard in doublet and hose is a devilish premonition of Johnny Rotten in his torn black suit coat and skinny tie, rolling his eyes and his R's, pronouncing anarchist to almost rhyme with antichrist and burning with a hard, gemlike flame of intelligence and rage.
Studies show it will help you workout harder, burning more calories.
It has taken hard graft, burning dedication and even a few lucky breaks to convert those home-grown gifts into worldwide opportunities.
With a few clicks, multitudes of more casual listeners sift through the songs on their hard drives, burning their own compilations onto homemade CD's or creating playlists for their Ipods or the software players on their computers.
In the final months before Netset folded in October 2000, the would-be e-commerce moguls sent out e-mail messages to New York Netset customers and people on party lists from the first dot-com boom, when there was an event nearly every night for digital workers eager to relax after a hard day burning venture capital.
