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400

Melbourne's Federation Square is fronted by a fabulous fractal this other F-word

facade

400

Mary Quant thought this item of women's apparel she created was "an instrument of liberation

the miniskirt

400

John Molson or Adolphus Busch

a brewer

400

Born Howard Allen O'Brien, this vampire author changed her first name to Anne in first grade

(Anne) Rice

400

Ben Whishaw voiced this Peruvian bear, lost in London & taken in by the Brown family

Paddington

800

The domed U.S. Capitol consists of 2 wings branching off this circular central part

the rotunda

800

To this Nation of Islam man, "White conservatives aren't friends of the Negro either, but at least they don't... hide it"

Malcolm X

800

Cabbage family member with a white curd that's edible (news to some kids)

cauliflower

800

This author of "The Road" told Oprah he doesn't use commas because they "block the page up with weird little marks"

(Cormec) McCarthy

800

She played the intrepid Ripley in the "Alien" films

Signourney Weaver

1200

The garden room is a highlight of this place West, Frank Lloyd Wright's home & studio in the Sonoran Desert

Taliesin

1200

It's the 1969 Oscar-winning film in which Dustin Hoffman declared, "I'm walkin' here!"

Midnight Cowboy

1200

A belfry or minaret

tower

1200

He's been responsible for such phrases as "the Me Decade" & "radical chic"

Tom Wolfe

1200

To woo Ione Skye in this film, John Cusack memorably holds a boombox over his head, playing "In Your Eyes"

Say Anything

1600

In the 17th century this Italian designed the papal canopy at St. Peter's as well as St. Peter's

Bernini

1600

In 1968 Jim Lovell described it as "essentially gray--no color... like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand"

the Moon

1600

Belgian seaport on the Schelde

Antwerp

1600

Richard Ford introduced Frank Bascombe in this 1986 novel with Frank's journalism job as its title

The Sportswriter

1600

He won a Best Actor Oscar as "The Pianist" Wladyslaw Szpilman

Adrien Brody

2000

This material is typical of the International style & is dominant in the 1951 Corning Museum

glass

2000

In 1962 she wrote, "As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life"

(Rachel) Carson

2000

A poetic term for a rustic cottage, or one who stoops

Bower

2000

This author based his "Wonder Boys" character Grady Tripp on his Univ. of Pittsburgh English professor Chuck Kinder

Michael Chabon

2000

Barbra Streisand played New York psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein in this 1991 film

The Prince of Tides

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