POETIC "BLANKS"
SONG OF _______
MYSELF
This conservative talk-radio host’s “Excellence in Broadcasting” network made him a household name.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
DANITY KANE, NO WAY OUT, LUBE
DIDDY
MEAN GIRLS THE MUSICAL
Home to both Sherpa guides and the Kumari this nation measures its prestige in vertical feet.
NEPAL
HOPE
Dubbed “America’s Pastor,” this evangelist preached to millions worldwide and advised several U.S. presidents.
THE UPSIDE, THE ROCK, HOMOPHOBIA
Kevin Hart
In this 2012 feat of cinema, teenage Lola, played by Miley Cyrus, makes statements to mother Demi Moore like, "Chad called me a ho, ok?"
LOL
This capital shares its name with the president who told us “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”
LINCOLN
BECAUSE I COULD NOT ______ FOR DEATH
STOP
In many American high schools, students gathered before first period for prayer and devotionals with this sports-minded group founded in 1954.
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
HEARTBREAK, TOTTENHAM, HELLO
ADELE
In this "totally outrageous" 2015 adaptation, Juliette Lewis plays villain Erica Raymond and arguably chews the scenery more than she does in The Other Sister? Is that possible?
JEM AND THE HOLLOGRAMS
In the 19th century its fleet chased right whales and finbacks from its bay; the artists and playwrights came late.
Provincetown
THE _____ LAND
This four-letter plural, once just printing-industry jargon, became a household word after this Britney-era presidential election drama.
CHADS
SANAA LATHAN, JUICE, THE WOOD
OMAR EPPS
I walked out of this Elizabeth Banks-helmed film twenty-five minutes in and it's fair to say that, no, I was not BLOWN away.
COCAINE BEAR
A queen once swapped her throne here for exile in Rome, Strindberg called it “the city of riddles,” and a 1973 bank standoff gave psychology a new term.
Stockholm
13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A __________
BLACKBIRD
Mike Braun, whose son and daughter were rumored to have made out at my friend Kelly's house junior year, won his 2018 Senate seat by running as this kind of Republican outsider — more "people's champion" than politician.
POPULIST
THE JAMIE FOXX SHOW, TWINS, LISA RINNA
GARCELLE BEAUVAIS
You know SOMETHING BAD is happening when The Cheesecake Factory meets Chronicles of Narnia with Glee sound mixing in a fascist tale that should have us throwing paint like PETA activists.
WICKED
Its City Hall became internationally recognizable not for its architecture but for a mayor caught on video smoking crack; also my home for a month at 18 after meeting a gay man on iChatgay.com and deciding it would best to relocate and spend the rest of my life with him.
TORONTO