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The angst-ridden Holden Caulfield |
The Catcher in the Rye
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"Ask Dr." her follows her journey from Holocaust survivor to sex therapist |
Dr. Ruth
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The flag of this other country appears in an upper corner of New Zealand's flag |
the United Kingdom
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In the early '80s punks & hardcore fans were slam dancing; then came this "pit" |
a mosh pit
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At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II called for the first of these |
a crusade
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Brought by the last 3 manned missions, vehicles called these are still there & ready to go |
a (lunar) rover
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Her, in "The Hunger Games" trilogy |
(Andy: Uh... who is--hmm...)
Katniss (Everdeen)
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"The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" is a comical documentary about 2 rivals trying to outdo each other at this video game |
Donkey Kong
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Afghanistan is up there with U.S. breadbasket states in producing this, & has sheaves of it on its flag |
wheat
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This old verb got a new meaning in the '80s: to pass a credit card through a reader |
swipe
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A 1958 economic union joined Belgium, Luxembourg & the Netherlands, known as these "countries" due to their elevation |
the Low Countries
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A gold replica of one of these natural symbols of peace |
an olive branch
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Patrick Bateman, in this author's "American Psycho" |
(Bret Easton) Ellis
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In the 2019 sequel to this 2004 film, Morgan Spurlock turns his focus from McDonald's to the fast food chicken industry |
Super Size Me
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In a nod to its Irish settlers, Montserrat's flag shows a woman in green holding one of these musical instruments |
(Natalie: [Sighs] What is a shillelagh?)
a (Celtic) harp
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Described as "senior advisers to the candidates", these faux MDs first appeared in a 1984 news story |
spin doctors
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From the 13th to the 15th centuries, Lubeck, a port city on this sea, was "The Queen of the Hanseatic League" |
the Baltic Sea
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What if the Soviets got to the Moon First?" is the premise of Apple TV+' show "For All Mankind", a title from a plaque left by this mission |
Apollo 11
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5-year-old Jack, in this bestseller by Emma Donoghue |
Room
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This controversial filmmaker looked at gun violence in America with "Bowling for Columbine" |
(Michael) Moore
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Kyrgyzstan's flag depicts one of these tentlike dwellings of central Asian nomads |
a yurt
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The early '80s gave us the computer words "notebook" & this other portable kind |
laptop
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After Vaclav Havel resigned as president in 1992, a "Velvet Divorce" split this country in 2 |
Czechoslovakia
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Thanks to Alan Shepard, 2 of these small sports items |
golf balls
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A guy with this first name, the same as the author, in the multi-part "Remembrance of Things Past" |
(Phil: Who's Proust?)
Marcel
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Michelle & Barack Obama produced this 2019 documentary about an Ohio GM plant repurposed by a Chinese auto glass maker |
American Factory
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St. Pierre & Miquelon's flag depicts the ship of this man who claimed the islands for France in 1535 |
Jacques Cartier
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A 1981 New York Times letter coined this hyphenated numerical term in reference to Wendy Wasserstein, born 1950 |
thirty-something
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In 1919 this country gained South Tyrol & Trieste from Austria-Hungary |
Italy
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A feather & a hammer dropped by an astronaut in 1971, confirming a theory of this man, four centuries before |
Galileo
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