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BOOK REVIEW
200
'A 1-ounce first-class letter costs this much to mail'
42 cents
200
'The butte rises from the western plain like a stick of this on a plate'
butter
200
'In 1959's "Some Like It Hot", this then 30-year-old historic event begins the movie & sends our heroes into drag'
the St. Valentine\'s Day Massacre
200
'This "Bar at the Folies-Bergere" artist painted several portraits of Impressionist Berthe Morisot, his sister-in-law'
Manet
200
'This Joyce novel is about a trip to a bath, funeral, library, maternity hospital & brothel'
Ulysses
400
'They're the Rose Bowl champs, having beaten Penn State 38-24'
USC
400
'To find this type of dictionary on your computer, double click the Alex icon'
a lexicon
400
'Peggy was the real name of this 1950s non-human co-star of Ronald Reagan'
Bonzo (the Chimp)
400
'His 1911 painting "I and the Village" uses the simple shapes of Russian folk art'
Chagall
400
'It ends, "His... throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack"'
The Call of the Wild
600
'By Obama's choice, he remained Secretary of Defense'
(Robert) Gates
600
'Show the policeman a clever trick--get your hand out of this restraining device'
a manacle
600
'In response to criticism of her roles, this 1939 Oscar winner said, "I'd rather play a maid than be one"'
Hattie McDaniel
600
'As a child, this Florentine fresco painter was placed in the care of a monastery; he took his vows in 1421'
Fra Filippo Lippi
600
'"The Last Chronicle of Barset" ends this Victorian author's Barsetshire series'
Anthony Trollope
800
'The only 2 Dow stocks to rise in 2008 were McDonald's, which posted a 6% gain, & this retail giant, up 18%'
Walmart
800
'I said I'd found this type of cast gold bar, spurring others to look as well'
ingot
800
'When the star wasn't available, his brother Joe Estevez was brought in to do voiceovers on this 1979 film'
Apocalypse Now
800
'When he first came to Hoboken from Holland, this abstract Expressionist, who died at 93, painted houses'
Willem de Kooning
800
'Yvonne tries to save her husband Geoffrey on the Day of the Dead in this Malcolm Lowry novel'
Under the Volcano
1000
'They're the 2 states that seated only one senator each for the opening of the 111th Congress in 2009'
Illinois & Minnesota
1000
'To the fear of a cholera epidemic Robert Koch helped put a stop, discovering this type of tiny pathogen'
microbe
1000
'This 2004 biblical tale had the biggest U.S. gross of any film in a foreign language'
The Passion of the Christ
1000
'Capturing the frothy essence of the Rococo style, "The Swing" by this painter is seen here'
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1000
'"In the Belly of the Beast" is a prison memoir by Jack Henry Abbott, a protege of this writer who died in November 2007'
Norman Mailer
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