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    | In this film, Robert Hays: "Surely you can't be serious." Leslie: "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley" | 
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    | Don't sign up for a cruise on this ship, Queequeg!  Only one guy is escaping to tell the tale, & it's not you! | 
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    Shirley Temple Black
 
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    | Ada Yonath won a Nobel Prize "for studies of" this organelle, site of protein synthesis, from which RNA gets its name | 
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    | Faustus! Don't let Mephistopheles convince you to sign that deal with this "bright" chief devil! It's a trap! | 
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    | Dramatist James Shirley moved to Dublin in 1636 after parliament closed Britain's theaters as a precaution against this | 
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    | Don't kill that old guy in the chariot over a little road rage, Oedipus! He's really this relation! | 
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    | In 1590 Sir Francis Drake built the 17-mile River Leat, one of these channels, bringing water to Plymouth, England | 
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    | Leslie was captain of the ship in this 1972 disaster movie--no wonder things turned upside down! | 
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    | Jason! Don't leave this wife to marry king Creon's daughter! Think of the children! | 
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    | Shirley Verrett, best known as one of these, was dubbed "la nera Callas" by enamored Italians | 
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    | Leslie starred opposite Anne Francis & Robby the Robot in this 1956 sci-fi classic based on "The Tempest" | 
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    | Don't drink that poison, Romeo! This friar is on his way to tell you Juliet isn't really dead! | 
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