j-archive-5732-D-2009-07-07

FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS

200

'Hieronymous Bosch:
"The Garden of Earthly __"'

Delights

400

'Edouard Manet:
"Luncheon on the ___"'

Grass

600

'Henri Rousseau:
"The ___Gypsy"'

Sleeping

800

'Francisco Goya:
"The Third of ___, 1808"'

May

1000

'Paul Gauguin:
"The Vision After the Sermon (___ Wrestling with the Angel)"'

Jacob

HBO

200

'Larry David (playing a version of himself) gets into uncomfortably funny situations on this show'

Curb Your Enthusiasm

400

'Bill Paxton juggles 3 wives & 7 kids on this series'

Big Love

600

'The Eulogy is the official newsletter of this dearly departed HBO series'

Six Feet Under

800

'This show follows the trials & tribulations of a 2-man digi-folk band from New Zealand'

Flight of the Conchords

1000

'Based on an Israeli series, this show follows psychoanalyst Paul Weston through his week'

In Treatment

USE A GOOD "STOCK"

200

'2-word term for a small gift given at Christmas'

stocking stuffer

400

'A person subjected to general ridicule'

a laughingstock

600

'It became the capital of its country in 1634'

Stockholm

800

'Get a "lode" of this rich vein of gold & silver discovered in western Nevada in 1859'

the Comstock Lode

1000

'Collective term for farm animals held as an asset'

livestock

PLAYWRIGHTS

200

'While working at the International Shoe Company, he met a man named Stanley Kowalski, a name he would later use in a play'

Tennessee Williams

400

'One of this Norwegian playwright's early jobs was serving as theatre poet at the National Theatre in Bergen'

Ibsen

600

'Her 1941 screen adaptation of her 1939 drama "The Little Foxes" received an Oscar nomination'

Lillian Hellman

800

'This dramatist's "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" was a reworking of his first play'

William Inge

1000

'In 1959 she became the first black female playwright to have a drama produced on Broadway'

Lorraine Hansberry

FOR THE SOLE

200

'In a Eugene Field nonsense poem, this trio "sailed off in a wooden shoe"'

Wynken, Blynken & Nod

400

'A character in an Oliver Goldsmith story lends her name to this term for a smug, well-behaved person'

goody two-shoes

600

'In Vanity Fair Rupert Murdoch described this man as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes"'

the Dalai Lama

800

'On Oct. 12, 1960 he used a shoe to great effect while giving a speech to the U.N. General Assembly'

Nikita Khrushchev

1000

'The deliberate destruction of equipment, it may come from workers throwing wooden shoes into machines'

sabotage