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    | "War is peace.  Freedom is slavery.  Ignorance is strength", wrote this Brit in a 1949 novel | (Alex: Correct, 1984.) 
 George Orwell
 
 
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    | On August 16 this "Material Girl" became a real middle-aged girl, reaching the half-century mark | Madonna 
 
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    | The Bombardier 415 is used in the initial attack on these alliterative menaces, dropping a mix of water & foam | a forest fire 
 
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    | Montague mayhem / More than 2 Verona guys /
 "Wherefore art thou" thee?
 | Romeo and Juliet 
 
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    | You're likely to hear "You are getting very sleepy" from someone practicing this | hypnotism 
 
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    | A way to cook eggs, or to take game or fish illegally | poach 
 
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    | In Act 1 of "The Beggar's Opera" you'll hear, "If with me you'd fondly stray, over" these "and far away" | (Mike: What are clouds?) (Tom: What are mountains?)
 
 the hills
 
 
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    | He celebrated his 30th In style with a birthday bash in NYC with wife Demi & a bunch of their friends | Ashton Kutcher 
 
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    | NYC bucket brigades were retired with the use of watertight hoses & of these; the 1st was in 1817 on Frankfort St. | a fire hydrant 
 
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    | Talk to yourself much? /
 I, Claudius,
 killed your dad /
 You're not mad,
 are you?
 | Hamlet 
 
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    | Betty Friedan was frequently called "The Mother of" this 1960s & '70s movement | feminism 
 
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    | This percussion instrument is also a verb that means to teach by repetition | drum 
 
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    | "There's only one rule... you've got to be kind" is from the works of this sometimes misanthropic author seen here | (Kurt) Vonnegut (Jr.) 
 
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    | On January 24 this celebrated U.S. gymnast went from a perfect 10 to the big 4-0 | Mary Lou Retton 
 
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    | Whisper in my ear / Betrayed me with Cassio?! /
 Oomf!  Oomf!  Oomf! Oomf!  Dead
 | Othello 
 
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    | Anthropophagy, another term for this practice, can really leave your bad taste in my mouth | cannibalism 
 
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    | To sit on eggs, or to worry | (Mike: What is to nest?) 
 brood
 
 
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    | In an 18th c. quip, "When a man... is to be hanged in a fortnight, it" does this to "his mind wonderfully" | concentrates 
 
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    | This ballet star & Carrie's love interest on "Sex and the City" turned 60 in February | Baryshnikov 
 
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    | What's now just a truck, or ladder truck, was once called this, incorporating an old way to pull down buildings | (Mike: What is an engine?) 
 a hook & ladder
 
 
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    | Gloucester: Ow, my eyes! / Love you more than she does, Dad! /
 A high body count
 | King Lear 
 
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    | Sometime in the 6th century B.C., Lao Tzu found "the Way" & founded this religion | Taoism 
 
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    | The last name of golfer Rocco, it means to help settle a dispute | Mediate 
 
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    | This teacher wrote that "the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth" | Joseph Campbell 
 
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    | We wonder if he sang "Through the Years" when he celebrated his 70th birthday in August | Kenny Rogers 
 
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    | Smashing windows is technically called "tactical" this, from the Latin for "wind" | ventilation 
 
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    | You control weather / Are you some kind
 of X-Man?! /
 Read Miranda rights
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    | Donald Judd & Robert Morris were important figures of this "scaled-down" art movement that began in the '60s | Minimalism 
 
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    | This verb means to use another's work without permission or to attack a ship at sea | to pirate 
 
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