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NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS |
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LITERARY WHICH CAME FIRST |
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In 1872 she was fined $100 for voting in the presidential election; she never paid it |
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"License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will" |
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Actress Jessica Tandy received the medal the same year as her husband, this fellow actor in the film "Cocoon" |
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"The Green Mile", "Carrie", "Needful Things" |
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This term used of lady sonneteers is now disdained as condescending |
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The self-penned epitaph of this president who died on July 23, 1885 reads, "Let us have peace" |
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"I've been stabbed, shocked, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted & burned... I am an immortal" |
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The Edelweiss Lodge in Garmisch is a resort for soldiers on this alliterative type of leave |
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As Brancusi's assistant, Isamu Noguchi mastered this art form on display at a Queens museum named for him |
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"The Pelican Brief", "The Firm", "The Client" |
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A type of Italian noblewoman, like the "Barefoot" one in a 1954 movie |
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In 1853 at age 33, she became superintendent of London's Harley Street Nursing Home |
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"Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back" |
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This widely recorded soprano was chosen by Ira Gershwin for the lead role in a 1952 revival of "Porgy and Bess" |
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"Bleak House", "A Christmas Carol", "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" |
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Take one letter out of a breaded, fried piece of potato to get this, a woman who flirts to get her way |
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The eldest of 10 children, this Irish writer would make June 16, 1904 a date to remember |
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"C'mon, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up... zip right out again... It's like we're going into Wisconsin" |
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In the 1980s these Army food packets replaced C rations; old-time soldiers would have loved the chicken tetrazzini |
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This Texas playwright also wrote the screenplays for "To Kill a Mockingbird" & "Tender Mercies" |
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"The Hound of the Baskervilles", "A Study in Scarlet", "The Valley of Fear" |
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The -ine suffix is seen in words like chorine for a chorus girl & this for a harem member |
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In 1684 this German philosopher published the foundations of calculus, unaware of Newton's work on the subject |
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"Once again, my life has been saved by the miracle of lasagna" |
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Some distinguished figures in this field include Michael Graves, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown |
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"The Plague", "The Rebel", "The Stranger" |
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A man who has left a will is a testator; this is the equivalent word for a woman |
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