HAIR'S TO YOU
A "GRAPHY" DESCRIPTION
'80s TALK
LET'S TALK PLUMBING
MUSEUM MUST-SEES
STUPID QUESTIONS
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Moe Howard of the Three Stooges really personified this kitchenware cut
A BOWL CUT
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It used to mean the writing of books; now it's a list
A BIBLIOGRAPHY
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In the early '80s punks & hardcore fans were slam dancing; then came this pit
MOSH PIT
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The chemical cleaner isn't taking out that clog--time to reach for this reptilian tool
A SNAKE
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At the Moscow Kremlin Museums: her 1762 coronation dress
CATHERINE THE GREAT
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This large Swiss city is on the western end of Lake Geneva
GENEVA
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One difference between a chignon & this 3-letter option is that a chignon is usually worn low while it can go anywhere
A BUN
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The science of mapmaking
CARTOGRAPHY
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This old verb got a new meaning in the '80s: to pass a credit card through a reader
SWIPE
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Buying a new loo? 1.6 is the maximum permitted gpf this measurement
GALLONS PER FLUSH
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At the Field Museum in Chicago: Sue a 40-foot-long & 90%-complete skeleton of one of these
A TYRANNOSAURUS REX
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The very farthest west you can drive in the Florida Keys is to this island
KEY WEST
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Here is a rainbow version of this "farming" hairstyle
CORNROWS
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The art of producing formal lettering with a brush or a pen
CALLIGRAPHY
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The early '80s gave us the computer words notebook & this other portable kind
LAPTOPS
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A letter plus a word makes the name of these round rubber washers used to seal connections
O-RING
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At the British Museum this key to deciphering Egyptian heiroglyphics
THE ROSETTA STONE
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In 2004 publisher David Carey announced that more Californians than New Yorkers subscribed to this magazine
THE NEW YORKER
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It doesn't get much higher than this hairstyle named for a mistress of Louis XV
A POMPADOUR
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Emmanuel Lubezki has won 3 Oscars in this category
CINEMATOGRAPHY
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Described as senior advisers to the candidates, these faux MDs first appeared in a 1984 news story
SPIN DOCTORS
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That banging noise you hear when a pipe's water supply is turned off is called a water this like a carpenter's banging tool
A HAMMER
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At the Queen Sofia National Museum in Madrid: this 25 1/2 foot-long black-&-white painting by Picasso depicting the tragedies of war
GUERNICA
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Beer lovers rejoiced when he invented Pasteurization in 1864
LOUIS (PASTEUR)
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Time to get medieval on you with this haircut said to be inspired by medieval lads serving an apprenticeship
A PAGEBOY
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The T in CAT Scan; it's a method of using electromagnetic waves to produce an image of an internal structure
TOMOGRAPHY
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A 1981 New York Times letter coined this hyphenated numerical term in reference to Wendy Wasserstein born 1950
30-SOMETHING
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It's the 3-letter abbreviation for both white plastic drain pipe & the stuff it's made of
PVC
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At this art museum in Florence: Raphael's Madonna of the Goldfinch
THE UFFIZI
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The name of the Gobi Desert is Mongolian for this
DESERT