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BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES |
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A VISIT TO A JAPANESE TEMPLE |
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John Boorman's man-returns-to-the-jungle film "The Emerald Forest" takes place mostly in this S.A. country |
[Alex reads "S.A." as "South American".]
Brazil
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Film in which Daniel Day-Lewis searches for oil & citrus fruits with dark red flesh |
There Will Be Blood Oranges
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A Manolin (a person) & a marlin (a fish) appear in this Hemingway tale |
The Old Man and the Sea
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We'll learn how to groom llamas if we stay at Hidden Acres Llama Farm in Jefferson in this Down East state |
Maine
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The Yeti |
the Abominable Snowman
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Emerald is the birthstone for this month |
May
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Film of a typical day in the life of the Beatles, which includes running from bloodthirsty zombie fans in a Romero classic |
A Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead
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The narrator of this Ralph Ellison novel clarifies that he is not "one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms" |
Invisible Man
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Maybe I'll spend a day getting lost at Oakes Farm in Tennessee, in their 11-acre one of these mazes |
(Holden: What is a hedge maze?)
a corn maze
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Kiyomizudera is said to have been built in honor of a bodhisattva, one who forgoes advancing to this enlightened state |
nirvana
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Tolkien's "There and Back Again" |
The Hobbit
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In the 1940s, this superhero's abilities came from a ring that was fashioned from an emerald lamp |
the Green Lantern
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Jim Carrey voices an elephant that heads to Toon Town to solve a murder with Bob Hoskins in this animated classic |
Horton Hears a Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Stephen Dedalus' formative years in Dublin are the subject of this novel by James Joyce |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Horseback riding is the rein event at Lady Hawk Farm in this state's Citrus County |
Florida
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Roll out this--emerald is the green variety of it; aquamarine is the blue-green variety |
(Gail: What is...)
beryl
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Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones & Javier Bardem go to Alaska to get love advice from Anne Heche in this movie-TV hybrid |
No Country for Old Men in Trees
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This play by George Bernard Shaw portrays Don Juan as the quarry, not the hunter |
Man and Superman
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If I tire of snowshoeing at Ohlers' Acres in this Canadian province, I'll take a side trip to the W. Edmonton Mall |
Alberta
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Behind Sai-mon, the West Gate, rises Sanju-no-to, the tallest of these structures in all of Japan |
a pagoda
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Vitamin B2, partner of thiamine & niacin on cereal boxes |
riboflavin
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The hardness of emeralds ranges from 7.5 to 8 on this scale |
Mohs
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Boxer Hilary Swank has some tough decisions for Diane Keaton in this film: life or death, career or family |
Million Dollar Baby Boom
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In a pamphlet, Thomas Paine wrote about government founded on "the indefeasible hereditary" these |
(Gail: What are Man's Rights?) (Alex: Oh... no, we can't accept that. It is [*]. You twisted it around, but a good stab at it, nevertheless.)
the Rights of Man
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Hey, Sugar, sugaring season is a great time to stay at Shearer Hill Farm in this state |
Vermont
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The Mexica, ethnically |
the Aztecs
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