REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PROUST |
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At the age of 9 Proust had his first wheezing attack of this disease that plagued him the rest of his life |
Asthma
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The 1976 Winter Games' mascot was Olympiamandl, one of these frosty guys |
Snowman
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The leader of rock & roll's Family Stone |
Sly
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His writing career began with the short novel "Detstvo" in 1852; the much longer pieces came later |
Leo Tolstoy
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This song from "The Music Man" is Harold Hill's paean to the glory of a marching band |
"Seventy-six Trombones"
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A 1961 home run king, 5 letters: M---s |
(Roger) Maris
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One of Marcel's chums at the Lycee Condorcet was Jacques, son of this "Carmen" composer |
Georges Bizet
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The 1988 Winter Games in Calgary & the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow had species of these as mascots |
(Alex: Misha in Moscow & Hidy & Howdy in Calgary.)
Bears
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The collective big screen name of brothers Arthur, Herbert, Julius & Leonard |
The Marx Brothers
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The taiga is the forest land of Russia & this is its nearly treeless northern belt |
Tundra
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I hear "Do I Hear A Waltz?" had lyrics by Stephen Sondheim & music by this Hammerstein collaborator |
Richard Rodgers
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A "Snow White" dwarf, 7 letters: B-----l |
Bashful
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One of the first critiques in English of Proust's work was by this "Godot" playwright in 1931 |
Samuel Beckett
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Olly the Kookaburra, Syd the Platypus & Millie the Echidna will represent the games held in this year |
2000 (Summer Games in Sydney, Australia)
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This man was in the news in 1978 (Guyana) |
Rev. Jim Jones
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In 1919 he & Lenin founded the Third International to bring together comrades from around the world |
Leon Trotsky
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It featured the songs "Sunrise, Sunset" & "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" |
Fiddler on the Roof
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A constellation, 9 letters: A-------a |
Andromeda
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In the 1890s Proust helped organize petitions on behalf of this Jewish army captain |
Alfred Dreyfus
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One of the symbols used at the 1968 games in this city was a red jaguar |
Mexico City
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This 11-year-old girl won an Oscar for a 1993 film |
Anna Paquin
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A group of 3 in power, or a vehicle drawn by 3 horses abreast |
(Amy: What is a triumvirate?) (Alex: The response had to satisfy both parts of the clue.)
Troika
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Bessie Smith's music is heard in the sultry revue of this style "in the Night" |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
Blues
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A world capital, 10 letters: M--------o |
(Amy: What is Montenegro?)
Montevideo (Uruguay)
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In "Remembrance of Things Past", Proust immortalized this shell-shaped cake that prompted a flood of memories |
Madeleines
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The computer-generated "Whatizit" that symbolized the '96 games in Atlanta was called this for short |
(Ajuan: Whatszit?)
Izzy
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This former head of the Urban League & of Bill Clinton's transition team testified on tape Feb. 2, 1999 |
Vernon Jordan
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In 1992 this news agency added ITAR to its name, for the Information-Telegraph Agency of Russia |
TASS
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The title of this '50s show refers to the phone calls taken by Sue Summers' answering service |
(Ajuan: What is "Telephone?") (Alex: Her service was the "Susanswerphone".)
Bells Are Ringing
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An 1881 assassin, 7 letters: G-----u |
(Charles) Guiteau
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