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premise of Notorious

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U.S. government agent T. R. Devlin (Grant) enlists the help of Alicia Huberman (Bergman), the daughter of a German war criminal, to infiltrate a circle of executives of IG Farben hiding out in Rio de Janeiro after WWII; the situation becomes complicated when the two fall in love as Huberman is instructed to seduce a Farben executive (played by Claude Rains)

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Rope

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1948 psychological crime thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jimmy Stewart

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premise of Rope

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two aesthetes strangle their former classmate from prep school, just before a party, as the fulfillment of a “superman” moral doctrine espoused by one of the guests, their former housemaster (Stewart), the two make slips over the course of the evening, leading the housemaster to suspect foul play as the murdered victim never shows up to the party

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Strangers on a Train

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1951 psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Farley Granger

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plot of Strangers on a Train

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mentally unstable man, Bruno, meets Tennis star and lover of senator’s daughter, Guy, on a train, Bruno proposes a scheme, “crisscross”, by which each murders the person the other wants to get rid of: Guy would kill Bruno’s father and Bruno would kill Guy’s wife, Bruno goes through with it and expects Guy to do the same, showing up in Washington and making things awkward for Guy, Bruno threatens to expose Guy by leaving Guy’s lighter on the island in the amusement park where he committed the murder, but Guy shows up tailed by the police and Bruno dies, police find the lighter on Bruno thus backing up Guy’s story and exonerating him

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Rear Window

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1954 mystery thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly

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plot of Rear Window

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photographer Jeff is recuperating with a cast on his leg and thus homebound in his apartment that looks out on a rear courtyard of the apartment block, he starts observing the apartment of one tenant (Raymond Burr), Mr. Thorwald, who appears to have murdered his wife and chopped her up, he meanwhile is having strife with his girlfriend, Lisa (Kelly), whom along with his nurse and his old Air Force buddy who is now a detective he tells about what he has seen, they have difficulty convincing the detective so they take matters into their own hands to prove their case, putting themselves in danger with Jeff almost getting killed when Thorwald discovers that Jeff has been observing him, the police arrive in time to thwart Jeff’s murder and arrest Thorwald

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synopsis of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot

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Prince Myshkin, a gentle and kind-hearted nobleman recently returned to Russia after years in a Swiss clinic for epilepsy, encounters the passionate Parfyon Rogozhin on a train to Saint Petersburg. Rogozhin is obsessed with the beautiful but troubled Nastasya Filippovna, and he pursues her, sparking a love triangle that draws in Myshkin. Myshkin’s attempts to help Nastasya lead him to interact with a wide circle, including the wealthy Epanchin family, whose youngest daughter, Aglaya, he comes to love. Nastasya, however, struggles with her trauma and wavers between Myshkin and Rogozhin, leading to jealousy, public scandals, and intense confrontations. Myshkin, driven by compassion, ultimately proposes to Nastasya, but on their wedding day, she flees with Rogozhin, Myshkin discovers that Rogozhin has murdered Nastasya, leaving Myshkin heartbroken and descending back into a state of mental fragility, trapped in a tragic cycle of love, sacrifice, and unfulfilled hope.

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Pawn Stars

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reality TV show on the History Channel about a pawn shop

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Love It or List It

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a reality TV show on HGTV

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premise of Love It or List It

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a designer plans and carries out a renovation of a couple’s home while a real estate agent meanwhile finds homes on the market that meet the couple’s requirements, couple must choose

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HGTV

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Home & Garden Television

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Duck Dynasty

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American reality TV show on A&E about a family in Louisiana running a hunting supply business

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Robertson family

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name of the family on Duck Dynasty

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Duck Commander

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name of the hunting supply company on Duck Dynasty

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House Hunters

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American reality TV show on HGTV

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Jersey Shore

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American reality TV show on MTV

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Snooki, Pauly D, “The Situation”

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three cast members of Jersey Shore

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Fixer Upper

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American reality TV show on HGTV about a married couple who own a home renovation and redecoration business

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Mountain Men

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American reality TV show on History

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Keeping Up with the Kardashians

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American reality TV show on E!

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Catfish: The TV Show

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American reality TV show on MTV based on the 2010 film Catfish

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American Pickers

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American reality TV show on the History Channel about a host and co-host who travel the U.S. to buy antiques for resale

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The Biggest Loser

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American reality TV show on NBC

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Deadliest Catch

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American reality TV show on the Discovery Channel that follows crab fishermen in Alaska

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Storage Wars

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American reality TV show on A&E that follows abandoned storage locker auctions and the people who bid on them

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Bridezillas

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American reality TV show on WE tv

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WE tv

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American pay television channel owned by AMC networks, oriented mainly towards lifestyle and entertainment programming targeting women

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The Bachelor

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American reality TV show on ABC

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The Bachelorette

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American reality TV show on ABC, spin-off of The Bachelor

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The Real Housewives

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American reality TV franchise on Bravo

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Property Brothers

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a Canadian reality TV show on HGTV on which two brothers help contestants find and transform fixer-uppers while staying in their budget

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RuPaul’s Drag Race

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American reality TV show in which competitors dress in drag and engage in competitive performance with other contestants

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The Voice

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American reality TV series on NBC, part of the international The Voice franchise

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MasterChef

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American competitive cooking reality TV series featuring Gordon Ramsay

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Alaskan Bush People

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American reality TV show on the Discovery Channel that follows a family living in the wilds of Alaska

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The Island

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American survival reality TV series on NBC, hosted by adventurer and survivalist Bear Grylls

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The Surreal Life

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2000s American reality TV show on CW and VH1 featuring celebrities who had fallen on hard times trying to get their lives together again

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Emmanuel Lewis, Vince Neil, Corey Feldman

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three celebrities who appeared on The Surreal Life

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The Simple Life

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American reality TV show on Fox that followed socialites Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie as they worked low-paying jobs

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The Osbournes

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American reality TV show on MTV that followed Ozzy Osbourne’s family

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Bar Rescue

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American reality TV show on Paramount Network

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Heinrich Blücher

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20th c. German poet and philosopher, second husband of Hannah Arendt, communist and anti-Stalinist, fled with Arendt to U.S. at outbreak of WWII

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“the anti-political principle”

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Blücher’s term for describing totalitarianism’s destruction of any space for resistance

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Dwight Macdonald

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20th c. American writer and activist, member of the New York Intellectuals, editor of Partisan Review

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Henry Stimson

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American statesman in early 20th c., served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War under both Democratic and Republican administrations; Secretary of War during WWII, oversaw American military efforts in WWII

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Dean Acheson

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Secretary of State under Truman, became target of McCarthy’s targeting of State Dept. for failing to stop spread of communism in China

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the China “White Paper”

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results of 1949 study authorized by Dean Acheson to investigate recent Sino-American relations

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Averell Harriman

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American Democratic politician and businessman, Secretary of Commerce under Truman, governor of New York

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George Kennan

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American diplomat and historian, author of the “Long Telegram” and “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”

51
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U.S. government agent T. R. Devlin (Grant) enlists the help of Alicia Huberman (Bergman), the daughter of a German war criminal, to infiltrate a circle of executives of IG Farben hiding out in Rio de Janeiro after WWII; the situation becomes complicated when the two fall in love as Huberman is instructed to seduce a Farben executive (played by Claude Rains)

A

premise of Notorious

52
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1948 psychological crime thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jimmy Stewart

A

Rope

53
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two aesthetes strangle their former classmate from prep school, just before a party, as the fulfillment of a “superman” moral doctrine espoused by one of the guests, their former housemaster (Stewart), the two make slips over the course of the evening, leading the housemaster to suspect foul play as the murdered victim never shows up to the party

A

premise of Rope

54
Q

1951 psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Farley Granger

A

Strangers on a Train

55
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mentally unstable man, Bruno, meets Tennis star and lover of senator’s daughter, Guy, on a train, Bruno proposes a scheme, “crisscross”, by which each murders the person the other wants to get rid of: Guy would kill Bruno’s father and Bruno would kill Guy’s wife, Bruno goes through with it and expects Guy to do the same, showing up in Washington and making things awkward for Guy, Bruno threatens to expose Guy by leaving Guy’s lighter on the island in the amusement park where he committed the murder, but Guy shows up tailed by the police and Bruno dies, police find the lighter on Bruno thus backing up Guy’s story and exonerating him

A

plot of Strangers on a Train

56
Q

1954 mystery thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly

A

Rear Window

57
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photographer Jeff is recuperating with a cast on his leg and thus homebound in his apartment that looks out on a rear courtyard of the apartment block, he starts observing the apartment of one tenant (Raymond Burr), Mr. Thorwald, who appears to have murdered his wife and chopped her up, he meanwhile is having strife with his girlfriend, Lisa (Kelly), whom along with his nurse and his old Air Force buddy who is now a detective he tells about what he has seen, they have difficulty convincing the detective so they take matters into their own hands to prove their case, putting themselves in danger with Jeff almost getting killed when Thorwald discovers that Jeff has been observing him, the police arrive in time to thwart Jeff’s murder and arrest Thorwald

A

plot of Rear Window

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Prince Myshkin, a gentle and kind-hearted nobleman recently returned to Russia after years in a Swiss clinic for epilepsy, encounters the passionate Parfyon Rogozhin on a train to Saint Petersburg. Rogozhin is obsessed with the beautiful but troubled Nastasya Filippovna, and he pursues her, sparking a love triangle that draws in Myshkin. Myshkin’s attempts to help Nastasya lead him to interact with a wide circle, including the wealthy Epanchin family, whose youngest daughter, Aglaya, he comes to love. Nastasya, however, struggles with her trauma and wavers between Myshkin and Rogozhin, leading to jealousy, public scandals, and intense confrontations. Myshkin, driven by compassion, ultimately proposes to Nastasya, but on their wedding day, she flees with Rogozhin, Myshkin discovers that Rogozhin has murdered Nastasya, leaving Myshkin heartbroken and descending back into a state of mental fragility, trapped in a tragic cycle of love, sacrifice, and unfulfilled hope.

A

synopsis of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot

59
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reality TV show on the History Channel about a pawn shop

A

Pawn Stars

60
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a reality TV show on HGTV on which contestanats must accept their own renovated house or move in to a different house

A

Love It or List It

61
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a designer plans and carries out a renovation of a couple’s home while a real estate agent meanwhile finds homes on the market that meet the couple’s requirements, couple must choose

A

premise of Love It or List It

62
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Home & Garden Television

A

HGTV

63
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American reality TV show on A&E about a family in Louisiana running a hunting supply business

A

Duck Dynasty

64
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name of the family on Duck Dynasty

A

Robertson family

65
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name of the hunting supply company on Duck Dynasty

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Duck Commander

66
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American reality TV show on HGTV on which real estate agent helps contestants find their dream house

A

House Hunters

67
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American reality TV show on MTV following a group of young and wild friends living in New Jersey

A

Jersey Shore

68
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three cast members of Jersey Shore

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Snooki, Pauly D, “The Situation”

69
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American reality TV show on HGTV about a married couple who own a home renovation and redecoration business

A

Fixer Upper

70
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American reality TV show on History that follows several different people living in various wilderness environments around the U.S.

A

Mountain Men

71
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American reality TV show on E! following the exploits of a family of influencers and socialites

A

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

72
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American reality TV show on MTV based on the 2010 film Catfish

A

Catfish: The TV Show

73
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American reality TV show on the History Channel about a host and co-host who travel the U.S. to buy antiques for resale

A

American Pickers

74
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American reality TV show on NBC on which contestants compete to lose weight

A

The Biggest Loser

75
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American reality TV show on the Discovery Channel that follows crab fishermen in Alaska

A

Deadliest Catch

76
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American reality TV show on A&E that follows abandoned storage locker auctions and the people who bid on them

A

Storage Wars

77
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American reality TV show on WE tv

A

Bridezillas

78
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American pay television channel owned by AMC networks, oriented mainly towards lifestyle and entertainment programming targeting women

A

WE tv

79
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American dating reality TV show on ABC

A

The Bachelor

80
Q

American reality TV show on ABC, spin-off of The Bachelor

A

The Bachelorette

81
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American reality TV franchise on Bravo

A

The Real Housewives

82
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a Canadian reality TV show on HGTV on which two brothers help contestants find and transform fixer-uppers while staying in their budget

A

Property Brothers

83
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American reality TV show in which competitors dress in drag and engage in competitive performance with other contestants

A

RuPaul’s Drag Race

84
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American reality TV series on NBC, part of the international The Voice franchise

A

The Voice

85
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American competitive cooking reality TV series featuring Gordon Ramsay

A

MasterChef

86
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American reality TV show on the Discovery Channel that follows a family living in the wilds of Alaska

A

Alaskan Bush People

87
Q

American survival reality TV series on NBC, hosted by adventurer and survivalist Bear Grylls

A

The Island

88
Q

2000s American reality TV show on CW and VH1 featuring celebrities who had fallen on hard times trying to get their lives together again

A

The Surreal Life

89
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three celebrities who appeared on The Surreal Life

A

Emmanuel Lewis, Vince Neil, Corey Feldman

90
Q

American reality TV show on Fox that followed socialites Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie as they worked low-paying jobs

A

The Simple Life

91
Q

American reality TV show on MTV that followed Ozzy Osbourne’s family

A

The Osbournes

92
Q

American reality TV show on Paramount Network

A

Bar Rescue

93
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20th c. German poet and philosopher, second husband of Hannah Arendt, communist and anti-Stalinist, fled with Arendt to U.S. at outbreak of WWII

A

Heinrich Blücher

94
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Blücher’s term for describing totalitarianism’s destruction of any space for resistance

A

“the anti-political principle”

95
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20th c. American writer and activist, member of the New York Intellectuals, editor of Partisan Review

A

Dwight Macdonald

96
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American statesman in early 20th c., served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War under both Democratic and Republican administrations; Secretary of War during WWII, oversaw American military efforts in WWII

A

Henry Stimson

97
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Secretary of State under Truman, became target of McCarthy’s targeting of State Dept. for failing to stop spread of communism in China

A

Dean Acheson

98
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results of 1949 study authorized by Dean Acheson to investigate recent Sino-American relations

A

the China “White Paper”

99
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American Democratic politician and businessman, Secretary of Commerce under Truman, governor of New York

A

Averell Harriman

100
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American diplomat and historian, author of the “Long Telegram” and “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”

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George Kennan

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