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During WWII he served in the German army occupying Greece |
Kurt Waldheim
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Getting right to the point, Jean-Paul Gaultier designed the costumes for her 1990 world tour |
(Frank: Who is [*]?) (Alex: Yes.) [Laughter]
Madonna
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The Stoics derived their name from a painted porch in this Greek city |
Athens
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Her first husband is Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother; Rhett Butler is her third |
Scarlett O'Hara
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A seafood cocktail called zarzuela is a specialty of this country's Costa Brava |
Spain
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Slang for "remarkable" or "gutsy", it may be a blend of bold & audacious |
bodacious
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In 1988 this Peruvian personally negotiated the end of fighting in the Iran-Iraq War |
Pérez de Cuéllar
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In French this clothing style or line is called pret-a-porter |
ready-to-wear
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This church put most of Descartes' books on its Index of Proscribed Literature |
the Roman Catholic Church
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This doctor becomes acquainted with Lara when they work together at a Russian Red Cross hospital |
Dr. Zhivago
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It's the monetary unit of Vatican City |
the lira
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This term for all the letters in a language comes from the names of 2 Greek letters |
alphabet
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as this nation's minister of state for foreign affairs 1977-1991 |
Egypt
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Yves Saint Laurent first made his mark at this fashion house |
Christian Dior
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The Latin name of this great philosophical work by St. Augustine is "De Civitate Dei" |
The City of God
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In "Go Tell It on the Mountain", John Grimes represents this author of the novel |
James Baldwin
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The imposing ruins of Angkor Thom, a temple complex built around 1200, are in this country |
(Alex: Oh, that smile! I love it, Leslie.) (Leslie: Thank you.) (Alex: You have the lead, of course, with $10,300, and we don't have that many clues left on the board as you can see. Three more to go.) (Leslie: Um, I'll try... uh, $2,700.)
Cambodia
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Our word "blanket" is derived in part from Old French for this color |
white
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He served as headmaster of the National High School in his hometown of Pantanaw, Burma |
U Thant
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This store has sold over 30 million pieces of Jaclyn Smith's sportswear |
Kmart
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This Frenchman later said that his 1945 lecture on "Existentialism and Humanism" was a mistake |
Sartre
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In a novel by Edith Wharton, this New England farmer falls in love with his wife's cousin Mattie |
Ethan Frome
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You might call the Pearl Mosque the pearl of this Taj Mahal city |
Agra
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Humorist Gelett Burgess coined this 5-letter term for a brief laudatory phrase on a book jacket |
a blurb
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He headed Norway's delegation to the 1945 U.N. Conference in S.F. before becoming secretary-gen. |
[Alex read "S.F." in the clue as "San Francisco", and "secretary-gen." as "secretary-general".]
Trygve Lie
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In Aug. 1993 this co.'s co-founder & CEO G. Marciano announced that he was stepping down & selling out |
[Alex read "co.'s" as "company's" and "G. Marciano" as "Georges Marciano".] ... (Alex: Marcianos are associated with [*].)
Guess Jeans
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Lewis Carroll's 1896 book on the symbolic type of this branch of philosophy was not intended for children |
logic
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In one G.K. Chesterton tale, this reverent detective is called Paul; in another he has the initial J. |
Father Brown
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Her firstborn son, Frederik, is Denmark's crown prince |
Queen Margrethe
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The Middle English phrase for this position with hands on hips & elbows bent out was "in kenebowe" |
akimbo
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