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Just below the adrenal glands, these bean-shaped organs are each about the size of a large bar of soap |
the kidneys
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This Garp creator also wrote the children's book "A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound" |
(John) Irving
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"Against", as in a lawsuit |
(Sara: What is anti-?) (Carl: What is a plaintiff?)
versus
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Over 4,500 years old, a seated lyre player from the Cyclades is an early treasure of this country's art |
Greece
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"Don't forget" these waterproof boots worn over the shoes is one of Gwyneth Paltrow's tips for visiting London |
(Sara: What are rain boots?)
galoshes
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1977: Duane Hall, a brother |
Annie Hall
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She followed up "Eat, Pray, Love" with a book on marriage called "Committed" |
(Elizabeth) Gilbert
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"For the time being", like a senator presiding over the Senate |
pro tem.
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Vermeer's "Music Lesson" shows a chaste young lady at the keyboard instrument fittingly called this |
a virginal
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1999: Hessian Horseman, an antagonist |
Sleepy Hollow
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Appropriately, the name of this blood vessel means "great artery" |
aorta
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On his 1950 death, this man who looked into the future was called "The Wintry Conscience of a Generation" |
George Orwell
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"By each head", in a country |
(Sara: What is capital?)
per capita
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This pianist & composer was painted by Delacroix in the 1830s, the decade when he became a force in Paris |
Frédéric Chopin
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Following a day on the slopes, warm up your tootsies in a pair of these boots whose French name says what they're for |
après-ski boots
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2007: Wilbur Turnblad, a father |
Hairspray
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His greatest novel was a commercial flop, so he supported his family with stories like "Bartleby the Scrivener" |
(Mark: Who is Dickens?)
(Herman) Melville
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"Elsewhere"--in English, it's an excuse |
alibi
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Pictures by artist Victor Hartmann inspired Mussorgsky's "Pictures at" one of these |
an Exhibition
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Yupik for "bearded seal" gives us the name of these soft boots worn by Eskimos |
mukluks
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2002: Frank Abagnale, a father |
Catch Me If You Can
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Broca's speech area is in the frontal lobe of this largest portion of the brain |
the cerebrum
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A Pulitzer for "American Pastoral" is one of the honors bestowed on this Newarker |
(Philip) Roth
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"By the fact itself" |
ipso facto
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This patron saint of music has often been depicted in art, as here in a work of around 1600 |
Saint Cecilia
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Boots from this brand, whose logo is seen here, were worn by soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War |
Frye
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1989: Whitley Strieber, an abductee? |
Communion
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