Christinas World Andrew Wyeth Flashcards
Assassinated at Broadway and west 165th street
1965
Also name of building
Malcolm X
Audubon ballroom
Largest borough in terms of area
Queens
Only X rated film to win AA for best picture
Midnight cowboy - Dustin Hoffman
Story of survival in NYC
69
Jigilo
Prostitution homosexuality
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. The film stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, with supporting roles played by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt and Barnard Hughes. Set in New York City, Midnight Cowboy depicts the unlikely friendship between two hustlers: naïve prostitute Joe Buck (Voight) and ailing con man Rico Rizzo (Hoffman), referred to as “Ratso”.
Least populated NYC borough
Staten Island
Built metal framework for Statue of Liberty
Gustav Eiffel of Eiffel Tower fame
French dude
In 79 movie thr warriors this was the warriors home turf
Coney Island
Who sang about Empire State of mind on this 09 album
Jay z ft Alicia keys a day
Empire State of mind
Words always printed top left front page of NYT
All the news that’s fit to print
Who sang about their New York State of mind on 76 album turnstiles
Billy Joel
Smallest UN state
Monaco- like a street
European Micro state
Smaller than central park which is only 5th largest in NYC
A 12 Norwegian historical Drama about a boat trip wqs nominated for an AA for best historical foreign language film
A Norwegian documentary with this same name and subject won thr Oscar for best documentary in 51
Also name the adventurer based on
High der doll
Khan tiki
In pride and prejudice thr misters name
And yes both first and last
Fitz William Darcy
Soap operas
General hospital on air April 1 63
13 daytime Emmy’s
How many episodes as of jul 19
14.3K
Shakespeare
In this play the antagonist convinces his wife to steal treasures item from protagonist wife
Othello
Hanker chiefs with strawberries
Iago convinces his wife Emilia to steal
Desdemona to cause othello to doubt desdemona faithfulness
Greek mythology
Messenger of Gods almost always wears these type of sandals with this defining feature
Her meees
Tuh lare e Uh - winged sandals
MCU
Shared universe across tv and film
This character has had the most screen time by a very large margin
Agent Clark Greg portraying agent Colson
Over 100 episodes agents of shield 5 films
NFL
In 18 season leading passer runner and receiver by yards
Ben Roth less berger 5129
Ezekiel Elliot 1434
Julio Jones 1677 Hopkins 2
Members of the Religious Society of Friends are known as
Also who founded
Friends or Quakers. The Christian sect started in England in the 1640s, led by George Fox. The principal tenet at that point was that Christians could have direct experience of Jesus Christ without the mediation of clergy, a reflection of the increasing dissatisfaction with the established church at that time. The term “Quaker” is thought to have been used earlier in reference to foreign religious sects whose followers were given to fits of shaking during religious fervor. Somehow that term became used for members of the Religious Society of Friends.
The dramatic tango dance originated in the late 1800s in this area area
along the border between Argentina and Uruguay. Dancers and orchestras from Buenos Aires in particular traveled to Europe and beyond in the early twentieth century and brought the tango with them. The tango craze first struck Europe in Paris in the 1910s, and from there spread to London and Berlin, crossing the Atlantic to New York in 1913
The color is a grayish, yellowish brown. The word “” comes from French and means “raw, unbleached”. “
ecru
Ecru” has the same roots as our word “crude”.
Our word “beige” comes from the Old French “bege”, a term that applied to the natural color of wool and cotton that was not dyed.
He received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He was also Vermont’s first Poet Laureate, a position that he held from 1961 until his death in 1963.
The wonderful poet Robert Frost was a native of San Francisco, but lived most of life in New England. He also spent a few years in England, just before WWI. Frost was well recognized for his work during his lifetime
Robert Frost had a poem published in 1916 in which he describes the road he took in the last lines:
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Because of these last lines, the poem is often assumed to be titled “The Road Less Traveled”. In fact, the poem’s correct name is “The Road Not Taken”. Quite interesting …
8th amendment
Protects 3 things to US constitution
excessive bail shall not be required
Nor Cruel and unusual punishments inflicted
Nor excessive fines imposed
Episode 8 of this miniseries is third in top 100 of most viewed non sports tv episodes
Roots
Last episode
These 2 universities have a long running boating competition on the tems between open weight 8s - which refers to this
Oxford and Cambridge
8 - Number of rowers or oarsmen per boat
9 with Coxsin
