In Season 2 of this show, Kali, aka Eight, has psychic powers & mentors Eleven
Stranger Things
Margaret Thatcher, & I was actually quite chuffed when a Moscow newspaper gave me this nickname
The Iron Lady
When an ace is combined with any card from a 2 through 9 in this game, it's a soft hand
Blackjack
An 1882 Exclusion Act barred immigrants from this country, though many had built the Central Pacific Railroad
China
Ranch hands George & Lennie embrace a Buddhist state of calm
Of Mice and Zen
As Ed Glosser, the trivial psychic on "SNL", he warned someone they're gonna get an ice cream headache for 8 or 9 seconds
Christopher Walken
Jehanne la Pucelle, or Joan of Arc, but I'm quite fond of the moniker "Maid of" this lovely city on the Loire
Orleans
Before June gloom & no sky July, sun-loving Southern Californians have to suffer through this related period
The May Gray
Before succeeding Thomas Jefferson as president, James Madison served for 8 years in TJ's Cabinet in this post
Secretary of State
Upton Sinclair's magnum opus about one man's attempt to write the perfect catchy advertising tune
The Jingle
In a time-traveling vision, this character sees his father Ned as a younger man & learns a thing or 2 about Jon Snow
Bran Stark
Benjamin Siegel--I'm a gangster & friends gave me this nickname; enemies who use it are cruising for a bruising
Bugsy
Steadfastly loyal, as in the title of a 1986 Madonna hit
True blue
This epidemic came to the U.S. in 1918 & spread rapidly in densely populated barracks, like at Fort Riley in Kansas
The Spanish Flu
H.G. Wells' sordid tale of a man who creates a device capable of making a distressing number of clones of Marcel Marceau
The Mime Machine
In this series based on a Stephen King novel, Anthony Michael Hall wakes up from a coma with psychic abilities
The Dead Zone
"Uncle Sam"; you may be familiar with a historic WWI recruiting poster in which these 3 words implored Americans to join up
I Want You
chilled beverage from Starbucks with coconut milk, açaí & strawberry is called this
The Pink Drink
In 1916 this Mexican bandit & revolutionary attacked Columbus, New Mexico, killing 18 U.S. citizens
Pancho Villa
Simon & Piggy, in desperate need of cooking supplies, render some fat from winged insects
Lard of the Flies
I have a vision that you'll name this show that starred supernaturally gifted Patricia Arquette as a crime solver
Medium
"La Divina", & I'm this soprano who made a sizzling headliner at La Scala in 1951
(Maria) Callas
In French, this veggie is un haricot vert
green bean
In the years before the Revolution, the colonies stayed in touch via the alliterative Committees of this
Correspondence
Cormac McCarthy's saga of an aged, female chicken caught up in a world of drugs & killers
No Country for old Hen