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THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY |
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This story of 2 devoted sisters earned Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
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This "Supercop" actor is notorious for performing his own death-defying stunts |
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"Das Rheingold", a one-act opera, serves as the prologue to this composer's "Ring" cycle |
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The traditional home address of the British prime minister |
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Spanish-American War, French & Indian War, U.S. Civil War |
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Haiku have only / 17, but the older / tanka, 31 |
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"You Can't Go Home Again" until you name this author who wrote it |
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This "Face/Off" director started the craze for Hong Kong gangster films with 1986's "A Better Tomorrow" |
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Traditionally, a woman plays this mythological "heel" in Handel's opera "Deidamia" |
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The Avenue of the Animals will lead you to the tombs of the Chinese emperors of this dynasty, 1368-1644 |
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Telephone, telegraph, telescope |
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Shiki wrote that this / "enlightened one" does not blink / "as the hailstones fall" |
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In 1991 Robert Pirsig published "Lila", a follow-up to his classic "Zen and the Art of" this |
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Wong Kar-wai's "Chungking Express" was imported to the U.S. by this "Jackie Brown" director |
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In a Russian opera, the city of Kitezh has this magical quality, like some ink & an H.G. Wells man |
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In Boston, the Prudential Tower is 52 stories & this insurance company's is 60 |
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In a Japanese / haiku, a "blossom" almost / always is this tree's |
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In titles of novels by John Updike, it precedes "Run", "is Rich" & "at Rest" |
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She's credited as Michelle Khan on her Hong Kong films, but used this name for "Tomorrow Never Dies" |
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You have to be a baritone to play Cortez in Roger Sessions' opera about this emperor of the Aztecs |
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Haakon's Hall in Bergen is a relic of this country's medieval past |
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da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh |
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Warrior class that / brought haiku into flower / 4 centuries back |
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Published posthumously in 1977, "American Hunger" is a follow-up to his "Black Boy" |
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A familiar face in Hong Kong, this actor made his U.S. debut in the film seen here ("The Replacement Killers") |
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1935 American opera whose final scene features the following |
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Paradise Bay, seen here, is on this continent that got its first ATM in 1997 |
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Richard the Lion-Hearted, Alfred the Great, Henry VIII |
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In a great haiku / by Basho, a poor boy grinds / this grain by moonlight |
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