j-archive-4319-D-2003-05-15

CRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE

200

'Female spot remover:
chat me badly'

Lady Macbeth

400

'"Hamlet" site:
Nile rose'

Elsinore

600

'"Prospero"us girl:
in drama'

Miranda

800

'Big "Kat" tamer:
hip to cure'

Petruchio

1000

'Richard's battleground:
show told brief'

Bosworth Field

AUTHORS ON FILM

200

'Nicole Kidman (in a prosthetic nose) portrayed "The Hours" of this author'

Virginia Woolf

400

'Meryl Streep played this author of "Shadows on the Grass" in 1985's "Out of Africa"'

Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

600

'Meryl Streep played this author of "The Orchid Thief" in 2002's "Adaptation"'

Susan Orlean

800

'"Cross Creek" is a biography of this author of "The Yearling"'

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1000

'1995's "Carrington" also portrays the life & loves of this Bloomsbury Group member who wrote "Eminent Victorians"'

Lytton Strachey

PRESIDENTIAL MEDICAL RECORDS

200

'His wife is often called the first woman president because many believed she called all the shots after his stroke'

Woodrow Wilson

400

'This president showed off his gall bladder surgery scar in the photo seen here'

Lyndon B. Johnson

600

'He kept secret the fact that he lost sight in his left eye during a boxing match with a White House aide'

Theodore Roosevelt

800

'George & Barbara Bush were both diagnosed with this thyroid disorder'

Graves\' disease

1000

'JFK suffered from this disease caused by the insufficient production of hormones by the adrenal glands'

Addison\'s disease

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS

200

'Logically, this occupation (not postal clerk) is exposed to the highest incidence of workplace violent crime'

police officer

400

'In game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals, Red Wing Steve Duchesne lost 6 of these, 2 of them original'

his teeth

600

'Metal fumes & oily floors trouble workers in these shops where you go after a fender-bender'

auto repair shops

800

'As our writers know, eyestrain is one hazard of working at a VDT, short for this'

video display terminal

1000

'People who work with this type of truck have to be careful not to fall off a tine'

forklift truck

LISTEN TO THE EXPERTS -- NOT!

200

'In 1929 engineer George Gillette remarked, "By 1940" this physics theory "will be considered a joke"'

Theory of relativity

400

'In 1911 the New York Times reported, "Vast Engineering Works Accomplished by Our Planetary Neighbors" here'

Mars

600

'Killed in the Montana Territory in 1876, this man had declared that "The Army is the Indian's best friend"'

George A. Custer

800

'In 1940 Gandhi said, "I don't consider" this man "to be as bad as depicted...his victories" are gained "without much bloodshed"'

Adolf Hitler

1000

'In the 4th century B.C., this Greek philosopher declared that "The brain is an organ of minor importance"'

Aristotle