Shall We Dance? The last word of each theme answer is a type of dance.
21-Across. * Site of an annual ball drop: TIMES SQUARE. Square Dance. Hi, Yellowrocks!
38-Across. * Comedic climax: GAG LINE. Line Dance.
53-Across. * Ray Kinsella in "Field of Dreams," e.g.: BASEBALL FAN. Fan Dance. Sally Rand (née Helen Gould Beck; Apr. 3, 1904 ~ Aug. 31, 1979) was a famous (infamous?) American fan dancer.
3-Down. * Keg buy in a pub: BEER ON TAP. Tap Dance.
And the unifier:
34-Down. Wedding reception finale, and a feature of the answers to starred clues: LAST DANCE.
Across:
1. Eva of "Green Acres": GABOR. Eva Gabor (née Éva Gábor;
Feb. 11, 1919 ~ July 4, 1995) was the youngest of the Gabor sisters. Eva
was an actress and socialite, but was probably best known for her role as Lisa
Douglas on Green Acres.
6. Smart guy?: ALEC.
10. Mosque leader: IMAM.
14. L.A.'s Staples Center, e.g.: ARENA.
15. "The lady __ protest too much, methinks": "Hamlet": DOTH.
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II. Hi, OMK!
16. Zilch: NADA.
17. Frozen rain: SLEET.
18. "The African Queen" co-screenwriter James: AGEE. James
Agee (né James Rufus Agee; Nove. 27, 1909 ~ May 16, 1955) makes frequent guest
appearances in the crossword puzzles. Sadly, he died of a heart attack
at age 45.
19. Fairly brisk gait: TROT.
20. ESP neighbor, to the IOC: POR. An appropriate, but
obscure clue, since the Olympic Games are being played this week.
The IOC is
the International Olymoics Committee and is based in Switzerland. The official language of the IOC
is French. Therefore, ESP is the French abbreviation for Espagne (Spain)
and it neighbor is POR (le Portugal).
24. Acrylic fiber: ORLON.
26. Bach composition: SUITE. Bach's Cello Suite # 1 as
played by Yo-Yo Ma (b. Oct. 7, 1995).
27. Was understood, finally: SANK IN.
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| If the Titanic sank today. |
29. Halley observation: COMET. The next time Halley's Comet will be seen is 40 years from tomorrow (July 28, 2061). Sadly, I
will probably not be around to see it. Hubby saw the last time it passed
by, which was a few months before we were married in 1986.
31. Bernie's songwriting partner: ELTON. That's Sir Elton
John (né Reginald Kenneth Dwight; b. Mar. 25, 1947) and Bernie Taupin
(né Bernard John Taupin; b. May 22, 1950).
32. Hawaii state bird: NENE. This used to be a crossword
staple when I began doing the puzzles in the 1980s.
33. Poetry competition: SLAM.
37. Flight tracker info: ETA. A crossword staple. Estimated Time of Arrival.
41. In the style of: À LA. Today's French lesson.
42. Unkempt dos: MOPS. // And 47-Across: Lock on one's
head: TRESS.
44. Electrical unit: VOLT.
45. Polite refusal: NO SIR.
49. "To clarify ... ": THAT IS.
50. Less prevalent: RARER.
52. Oscar, for one: AWARD. Anthony Hopkins won one for his
role as Hannibal Lector.
56. Quarterback's asset: ARM.
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| Joe Burrow |
59. Como una mujer con mucho dinero: RICA. Hi, Lucina!
If I win the Louisiana vaccination lottery, I will be Rica.
60. Best ever, initially: GOAT.
The Jeopardy! GOAT.
61. Paddled boat: CANOE. // And 46-Down. Item for a
dinghy: OAR.
63. Haphazard way to run: AMOK.
64. Salinger title girl who says, "I'm extremely interested in
squalor": ESMÉ. The full name of the book is For Esmé—with Love and Squalor. It is actually a short story in the book that contains several other
short stories by Salinger.
65. Florida theme park: EPCOT. EPCOT: the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow.
66. Things of little consequence: NITS.
67. Kevin Costner in "Field of Dreams," e.g.: STAR. This
movie was released over 30 years ago!
68. Judges: DEEMS.
Down:
1. Shocked sound: GASP.
2. Folksy Guthrie: ARLO. Arlo Davy Guthrie (b. July 10,
1947) is the son of folk singer, Woodie Guthrie (né Woodrow Wilson Guthrie;
July 14, 1912 ~ Oct. 3, 1967).
4. Half a pair: ONE.
5. Not good under-the-hood sound: RATTLING.
6. Rhett's last words: A DAMN. A reference to Gone with the Wind.
7. Theater tier: LOGE. Everything you wanted to know about
a Loge, but didn't
know to ask.
8. Sorbonne summers: ÉTÉS. More of today's French lesson.
The Sorbonne is a public research university in Paris, France.
9. Knights or rooks: CHESS MEN.
10. Somehow knows: INTUITS.
11. French Revolution radical: MARAT. Jean-Paul Marat (May
24, 1743 ~ July 13, 1793) was a French political theorist, physician and
scientist. He had a skin disease, so spent much time soaking in his
bath. While in the bath, he would often allow colleagues and other to
come to speak with him. Thus, in July 1793, Charlotte Corday (née
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont; July 27, 1768 ~ July 17, 1793)
entered the bath and stabbed him to death. She was beheaded 3 days
later. Marat is probably best known today because of Jacques-Louis
David's painting, The Death of Marat.
12. Love to pieces: ADORE.
13. Deckhand: MATE.
22. Charged particle: ION. A crossword staple.
23. Montreal's prov.: QUE. Hi, CanadianEh!
25. Old MGM rival: RKO.
27. Apparently are: SEEM.
28. Kind of sax: ALTO. The come in all sizes. The
saxaphone is a relatively new instrument. It was invented in the 1840s.
29. Phones in pockets or purses: CELLS.
30. Working the case: ON IT.
32. Oxfam and CARE, for two: NGOs. As in Non-Governmental Organizations.
35. Et __: and others: ALII. Today's Latin lesson.
This is becoming a crossword staple.
36. Damages: MARS.
39. Batting stats: AVERAGES.
40. Improved in value: ENHANCED.
43. Barely runs?: STREAKS. Clever clue!
48. Civil War soldier: REB. As in a Rebel.
49. Pan Am rival: TWA. My first plane flight was on a TWA
plane. I was just a kid and at the time the airlines gave out wings and
other trinkets to children. I still have the little TWA bag. I
think it was filled with candy.
50. "Spider-Man" trilogy director Sam: RAIMI. I haven't seen
any of the Spider-Man movies.
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| Samuel M. Raimi (b. Oct. 23, 1959) |
51. Fancy neckwear: ASCOT.
52. Subsequent to: AFTER.
53. Source of fiber: BRAN.
54. 121-episode TV drama set on a mysterious island: LOST.
55. Tibetan honorific: LAMA.
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| The current and 14th Dalai Lama |
57. Space: ROOM.
58. Citi Field team: METS.
62. Bonobo, for one: APE.
Here's the Grid:
חתולה
47 comments:
Hey, Spitz, take a look-see at how OMK has been skewering the German language the last couple days at JHints!
'Twas the LAST DANCE on her dance card,
And her Prince Charming was on guard.
A jitterbug,
A dance she loved --
To escape him afterward!
(I don't get it, but that's what Erato dictated to my sleepy mind. I'm trying to remember the only dance I ever attended that used dance cards, at BYU in 1968, but it's too long ago.)
Mr. Fox and Miss Turkey attended the BALL,
The pair danced a Turkey TROT in the main hall.
At a slower pace,
A FoxTROT embrace.
Then the fox to the hen-house made a later night call!
The Rag MOP DANCE was a Lindy Hop
But the hip-hop dance is just the Mop
A K-Pop craze
THAT'S seen its days,
Let's hope it comes to a sweeping stop!
{C-, C, C+.}
Good morning!
Got 'er done. Aaah, that feels better after a three-day fast. Saw "Montreal" and read "Toronto." Had to change ONT to QUE -- Wite-Out moment. Don't think I ever heard of BERNIE, but he perped in without a peep. Winston, ya wrote good, like a puzzle-setter should. Enjoyed your expo, Hahtoolah. (I don't think many (any) of us will be around to see Halley's next visit. Mark Twain was born and died in Halley years.)
To paraphrase Pogo, “Looks like Monday come on a Tuesday this week.” FIR in good time, only W/O, EMMA:ESME. Other than that, a fun romp! Thanx WE for a CW that was clever but not too difficult, like the “corner” CW last week, of which few cornerites got the theme. I really enjoyed having a CW that I could zip through for a change, instead of struggle, so thanx again WE. I was on the right wavelength, it seems. Fun, informative write-up, thanx, Hahtoolah.
Good Morning, Crossword Friends. All of these dances really got me ready for my Nia (gym dance) class this morning! I hope this inspired you to get up and dance, too.
We are really entering the dog days of summer. So hot and humid so early in the day. Stay cool, everyone.
QOD: You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. ~ Leo Durocher (July 27, 1905 ~ Oct. 7, 1991), American professional baseball player, manager and coach
Hahtoolah, your QOD is good for me, too, when I’m sitting in a saloon!
FIR, but changed garbo to GABOR. DNK MARAT, RAIMI, GAG LINE (I know it as punch LINE) and neither CARE nor Oxfam (I do know NGO, though).
Thought of Donna Summer for LAST DANCE.
When Reagan was president, the GAG was his remark when he saw Hailey's COMET: "Well, what do you know - there it is again."
Happy that my elementary knowledge of Spanish gave me RICA, which saved me from guessing RAIMI.
Didn't think I was going to watch any Olympic events, but read in the local paper that an ODU alum is sailing in the women's 49er event. May have to stream it. ODU turns out a lot of championship-level sailors.
Thanks to Winston for the tasty Tuesday. My favorite was "barely runs?" for STREAKS. And thanks to Hahtoolah for the visual treats.
Let's dance. Only after I changed Bach's FUGUE to SUITE. RICA crossing RAIMI was the last fill today, perps.
Wanted PUNCH LINE but it wouldn't fit, so GAG filled it.
Movies today were GWtW, Field of Dreams, and Spiderman. I saw GWTW about 40 years ago but none of the others.
I liked that Socks without Partners
NGO was unknown
I had to wite-out hemp for BRAN
I agree, a smooth run except
a few snags slowed it down.
I'll be back to view hahtoolah 's generous links.
WC
BE, Hamlet has also been filmed many times (Laurence Olivier in 1948, among many others). So was Alice's Restaurant, for that matter.
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Winston and Hahtoolah (loved that sock cartoon!).
I’m back to the party after a busy few days when I was so late here that I just lurked. (Loved the challenge on Sunday, AnonT 😀👍👍
Finished in good time today, saw the theme (CSO to YR with SQUARE DANCE), but arrived here to discover I FIWed; I forgot that I needed the Spanish word for Rich (not that I knew it!- my French is better than my Spanish) and didn’t see the funny STREAKS in my Strehks. Ah well.
I’ll take a CSO with QUE although it is a few miles down Hwy 401 from me.
RAIMI was all perps. Bernie’s partner took a few perps to bring ELTON.
I waited for perps to decide between Nylon and ORLON.
I noted ALA crossing ALII, SEEM and DEEMS, CANOE and OAR.
We had a LAMA and an IMAM.
No NITs today.
Wishing you all a good day.
I'm with uncle Fred - Tues was faster than Mon! Thanks Susan for all the fun links to dances - "The King and I" is a favorite!
Thanks Susan and Winston - lots of music in my head for the morning!
Musings
-The final three words of “Como una mujer con mucho dinero” gave me RICA and RAIMI
-Sally Rand was like today’s movie teasers – Show just enough to generate interest
-Halley rhymes with dally not daily
-It would seem to be very RARE to use this in a POETRY SLAM
-I enjoyed the two references to my favorite baseball movie Field Of Dreams
-RATTLING under the hood occurs much less frequently than years ago
-I get in trouble around here if I fail to INTUIT my lovely bride’s wishes
-Forgot your CELL? Could you find a pay phone in your town? I couldn’t
-Hitler used Lebensraum (more ROOM) as an one excuse to go to war
-FORE! 105F heat index today so we will be done by noon.
-Fun write-up Susan.
Good morning everyone.
OwenKL @ 0533 - - Thanks. LMAO. Twain is right. But when you're brought up with it, it just rolls off your tongue. My Social Studies teacher back in '52, liked to regale us with stories from WWII. He lugged a 75lb radio pack all over France. To OMK's point, my teacher liked to cite the garbled example of: "The Pferd (horse) hat über the fence gejumped." (BTW - He helped me learn how to play CHESS.)
I liked Misty's points, too. I find myself sometimes writing unclear sentences the way she described. Since German is moderately inflected with 4 cases and 3 genders, sometimes word order may not be as important as in English. German uses the past participle much more for past tense, compared to English which uses the simple past more often. So, that could have been part of what M. Twain noticed. Dutch and L.German also separate the participled verb as above.
Easy solve today, but I guess I ignored the theme. Had 'watt' before VOLT. FIR.
OSCAR always reminds me of the dummy that the ship's crew would use to practice man-Overboard drills. (Oscar is the phonetic name for letter 'O'.
Had a stellar night last night. Lost no money at bridge, and saw the ISS at 2234.
FIR Tuesday that was not daunting so I stuck to filling in the acrosses first time through. That led to a couple of WOs: fugue/SUITE (Hi Big Easy), watt/VOLT (Hi Spitz) and none/NADA. All fixed easily by perps. I liked the surprising STREAKS for barely runs too, Jinx! Thanks, Winston, for the enjoyable puzzle today with a theme easy to find after the reveal. And thanks Hahtoolah for reviewing the puzzle so ably. We will join you in the Tuesday DANCE of joy!
Hi all . Favorite clue “barely runs “ for those who remember the fad of the 70s. Cheers
Still easy early in the week puzzle. ..So busy I forgot to look for the theme 🙄....But "I won't dance, don't ask me" 🕺..
NADA NENE, anywhere but Hawaii?
Was thinking Leonard "Bernie" Bernstein's partner.
"Wedding reception finale"?..pay the bill! 💲
Name of that 121 episode island show was almost LOST on me. But learned GOAT from doing puzzles. Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lice, but real NITS are of "big" consequence. 😲
My SIL was ready to ask my DD to marry him (he set it all set up at the Boston Commons). When he actually proposed.. suddenly a STREAKER ran by yelling "I'm naked" ..DD thought for a second he had planned it as a bad joke and considered a "NOSIR".
"Keg buy in a pub"...apparently not BEERORDERS until I got to the letter "P" on the alphabet run from MOPS, for ONTAP
Eva GABOR said goodbye to TIMES SQUARE when she moved to "Green Acres"
Sunday, Tony's Spider, Yesterday TANGLED WEBS and today Spider Man trilogy...I'm becoming arachnophobic !!
With summer heat and evaporation the local reservoirs ____ ARLO.
Ares damages his Roman counterpart....MARS.
"Close the portal" in Paris: "Je t' ___ "..ADORE
_____ of the state....AWARD.
Nice day...so far...🤞
Good morning, everyone. Thanks for the puzzle and the great write up with so many laughs. I,too,thought that "Barely Runs" was the clue of the day. No dancing this morning but it is soon going to be time for my daily walk.
Thank you Winston for a delightful puzzle. This is Tuesday right? It wasn't as difficult as yesterday's.
And thank you Hahtoolah for another very funny and STAR-studded review. Fav video was Yo-Yo of course.
Other favs:
18A James AGEE was also a poet, novelist, journalist, and film critic. I know him best for his poem for the exquisite orchestral song "Knoxville Summer of 1915" by Samuel Barber (15 min.)
20A Got it, but it didn't SINK IN. Yes I would agree that the cluing for this was obscure!
37A I wonder what the ETA is for the next "ETA" on the Corner?
64A "Esme" was also published with the collection "Nine Stories" in 1983. My favorite from that set was the tragic story of Seymour Glass, "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish", originally written in 1948. I also liked Salinger's novel "Franny and Zooey", also about the Glass family, where I first heard of the "Jesus Prayer".
9D A better clue would have been "Knights and Bishops", as "Rooks" are not men, but "Castles" (derived from the Persian "Rukh"). CHESSMEN is a misnomer to begin with, as it ignores the most powerful player on the board: the QUEEN.
Bonus clue:
"Yesterday, crossword STAR ____ Rae was married and is no longer 'Insecure'":
Oh, and that was one EVIL looking cat!
Cheers,
Bill
The ultimate Frenemy/nemesis test. Ask to borrow his cell phone cuz, you forgot yours. Thank him profusely if he complies else…
I listened to "City of New Orleans " driving to VA. I was struck by ATLO's poetic gift*.
"Je t'ADORE", Priceless. Et ouvrez la fenetre
WC
** And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
And another thing ...
Liked 53A and 67A. Daily we all play in a "Field of Dreams".
Good Morning:
This was a pleasant, straightforward solve with a hidden theme and a very Aha reveal. It was also teeming with show biz references: Gabor, Agee, Elton, Gag Line, Arena, Fan, Star, Award, Arlo, A Damn, Loge, Dance, RKO, Raimi, Ascot, Lost, and Doth. CSOs to YR at Square Dance and CEh at Que.
Thanks, Winston, for a fun Tuesday and thanks, Hahtoolah, for a most entertaining commentary and dazzling visuals. I particularly enjoyed the video of the beautiful Deborah Kerr and magnetic Yul Brynner. I also liked the Sock cartoon and the Evil cat!
Have a great day.
Does anyone remember what David Niven said when he was streaked at the Academy Awards?
"Probably the only laugh that man will get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings."
Becky
This Tuesday grid filled quickly.
No write-overs today.
My big black cat Ninja would never plot my demise…whose lap would he lay in for those lazy back scratches? Never mind getting din-din.
See you tomorrow.
My favorite answer as others was STREAKS. I remember that was a big thing in college for a year or so when I was there. Didn't some folks try running naked on the field during baseball broadcasts? Blame Ray Stevens? (I hadn't thought of his songs in years.) Remember his "Guitarzan"?
Loved getting Eva GABOR first thing in this puzzle. I still watch "Green Acres" every week, and her performance is always just a delight. And then getting ALEC for "smart guy" cracked me up. Fun way to start a Tuesday puzzle, thanks, Winston. And thanks for clever pictures, Susan.
Have a great day, everybody!
Thank you Winston for a charming and easier puzzle, which I did not get the theme ... I came to Hahtoolah's excellent review to be informed of it.
Thank you Hah2lah, for your cartoons and Cat-oons, and the quirky jokes and links.
I meet and pet a multitude of dogs in our neighborhood, but have never actually touched a cat on my rounds. I guess thats because cats dont like being on a leash, or walk around with their owners ( who owns whom ? ) and dont like being petted by strangers.
Between 1955 and 1958, I happened to be a little kid in Bangkok, Thailand, and I remember the movie, 'The King and I', was strenuously banned in that country, for evermore. I can understand why. King Mongkut (- The King ) was actually a very mild man, who was a buddhist monk for 27 years !
His son, King Chulalangkorn is considered as Siam's greatest king.
Anna Leon-owens, The Teacher, wiki biography was a mulatto, of part indian ancestry, who was an incorrigible liar and sensationalist, who wrote blatant untruths to sell her book, to make some money. The Wiki article on her life illustrates her complete lack of conscience. She defamed not only a famous and noble king of Thailand, she slandered an entire country and its people ....
It is very sad that an illustrious king of Siam, was made to look like an imbecile to fulfill the titillations of the european audience. Yul Brynner acts, in the role, like an absolute idjut ...
Although I don't agree with Edward Said, on most of his writings, I think this is a classic case of racism and Orientalism...
Pardon me, for this outburst, but I feel this had to be said.
You may feel free, to delete this post, if this is too political.
Have a nice day, all.
PVX, Google sent me to 10/2/78 and I watched the whole game. Considering baseball books written for a lot less, 1978 would make a great one.
Montville, Shaughnessy, ??. The Boston perspective would be best as we specialize in angst*
* I think we had this recently
WC
Yaz, final out in 67,75 and 78
Also, the checked swing was allowed back then and those are strikes today
Wilbur, ARLO does my favorite version of City of New Orleans...but he didn't write it. We need to credit that to Steve Goodman who died way too young of leukemia back in '84.
Hi All!
Thanks Winston for the fine Tuesday puzzle. I started off strong but started floundering in the SW...
Thanks for the wonderful expo, Hahtoolah. LOL plotting kitty.
WOs: nyLON, STREeKS, RAaMI, RaCe(?)
ESPs (& WAGs!): LOGE, MARAT, RAIMI, RICA after I fixed STREAKS
Fav: STREAKS xing running AMOK
ARLO's Alice's Restaurant - I make the family listen to it every Thanksgiving.
WC - I love City of New Orleans too. //D-O: Steve Goodman is credited by Guthrie in the intro.
{B, A, B+}
Jinx - LOL Reagan's self-effacing GAG about his age. I'll need to see 91yro if I'm going to catch Halley's COMET a second time. //I guess that's a goal ;-)
C, Eh! - glad you enjoyed C.C. & my effort. Not sure I'll ever (co)construct a Sunday again - that was a lot of words!
Ray-O: What's DD? (who was to marry SIL?)
Gotta run. Cheers, -T
DD:Dear Daughter, SIL son-in-law
Naticked at the name cross and now I have to know not only a foreign word but a whole sentence. อาจจะเป็นภาษาไทยก็ได้
Vidwan, thank you for the link to the article about Anna Leonowens. Wow, one certainly gets a different picture of her.
Thanks Ray-O: I read SIL as Sister-in-Law...
Not that there's anything wrong with that :-)
Cheers, -T
And WC - yes very ironic that Yaz made the final out in 67 and 75 World Series and the 78 playoff game. We finally got the last laugh, and this year’s team may be for real.
Vidwan: Your post let me to tell you that I am currently reading The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh (2000). It is a historical novel set in Burma, India and Malaya and chronicles the last king of Burma through WWII. King Thibaw spent his last years in exile in India. Reading this book has led me down many rabbit holes and I fact-check the events depicted. This history is virtually unknown to westerners, or is depicted through western eyes.
I liked this puzzle.
Vidwan, thank you for guiding me and all of us to the Wiki article about Anna Leonowens. Fascinating. When I was living in Taiwan in 1963 I saw King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit as they were driven down one of the main streets in Taipei to visit President Chiang Kai-Shek.
Re. Jeopardy,Jennings… IAGO wasn't that difficult for us CCers
Re, Anna and the King and Ms Leonowens… I can only think of that "Tangle web…"
WC
Hahtoolah, our son used to run a Cell Phone Repair business a few years ago, so I sent him the cartoon in your write-up. He LHAO.
Vidwan @12:25 PM Let me add my thanks for your post on Anna Leonowens. I love finding out the real facts behind a myth. Your comments and the Wiki article sound highly plausible to me.
-T @2:20 PM Thanx for the Seinfeld clip. Not that there's anything wrong with it!
In addition to C.C.'s personal stature in the puzzling world and the related respect from the other constructors and bloggers, the magic of the Corner in the diversified experience of the people here and the sharing and discussing their perspectives on anything and everything. My brother from another mother, Vidwan was a young boy in Thailand in 1955 to 1958. Vidwan attacks the misrepresentations of Anna and the lighthearted view of Rama IV. Mongut was the th in that dynasty with the current king, Rama X. I am sure what he writes is very accurate, but having been married to an educated and outspoken Thai woman it is not universally hated by the people. V. says, "His son, King Chulalangkorn is considered as Siam's greatest king." Which is ironic because it was that prince who was in fact tutored by Anna and who taught the realm about western ways. It was that prince who became king and who helped Siam/Thailand from ever becoming a colony of any other nation.
Rama VIII was only 10 when he became king, and a right wing military group took control of the country and aligned it with the Axis powers in WWII. VII was shot and died, Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) became king at 19 and in my knowledge was the most respected and beloved of all the kings until his death at 88, in 1916.
The WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE gives more information.
Any blog where Emile can complain every day but comes back everyday has to be great
Late to Crossword Corner today after a long Zoom meeting with a physics collaborator in England and then an extended lunch with local collaborators.
Hahtoolah Thank you for the learning moment about ARLO GUTHRIE who often appears here. I did not realize his father Woody Guthrie was named for Woodrow Wilson. Apparently Woody Guthrie's father was a Klansman who participated in a lynching. Good that his son and grandson went in the opposite direction! Quite a learning moment!
Enjoyed the DANCE theme. The biggest loss during COVID for me has been losing DANCE opportunities. I wish people would just get vaccinated so things can open up again. Things are going in the wrong direction now.
Here is my article on a solidarity event in 2015 with our local IMAM and our local rabbi.
This was in the wake of the mass killings in San Bernardino done in the name of Islam but rejected by most IMAMs in the US.
Thanks to the Wayback Machine for archiving my article!
From Yesterday:
Lucina, unclefred, Vidwan Thank you for your comments.
Here is a relevant article at Market Watch about Kudlow of puzzle-mentioned CNBC.
From Sunday:
Becky You had this quote "And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear" that you attributed to LAURA NYRO. I was not familiar with the line. My search indicates it was written by Joni Mitchell in a song called "That Song About The Midway". I am curious if you have something to show it was written by LAURA NYRO?
Thank you for all your comments re: Anna Leon-owens, and "The King and I".
That is indeed very gratifing !!
I was very reluctant to post the thread, especially since neither, she, nor the play was even a clue on todays CW.... merely a clip, as an example. I have a habit of going off on a tangent, in posting, and in real life, during conversations, that has got me into a lot of trouble !
The Thai, in my experiemce, are a very mild mannered people, and abhor violence in all forms. I read a study which said that domestic violence in Thailand, is one of the lowest in the world. During my childhood there, there were 2 coups by various military juntas ... and in both, not a shot was fired... and the King still remained the monarch. ( BTW, I was less than 10 yrs old.)
Hahtoolah, I dont read indian or even indo-american authors, because I have problems with their style of writing.
But I do know, that the british had different rules in dealing as victors, with asians, than they had with europeans, like the french and nascent americans...
The Thibaw, King of Burma, spent his life in exile, in Ratnagiri, a seaside town, about 700 miles south of Mumbai/Bombay. I have seen his dilapidated palace. Just like Napoleon was exiled to St, Helena.
The last Mughal, King Bahadur (=means 'brave') Shah II, (1775-1862), was exiled after the 1857 war/mutiny to Rangoon, Burma, 4800 miles away, where he died... in the other direction of the burmese king. Despite the terms of surrender, after that war, Bahadur Shah's descendents ... about 260 in all, who had surrendered as prisoners of war, were executed/hanged or blown off cannon mouths, in front of the main door, of the iconic Red Fort, in Delhi. No quarter.
The Last Sikh emperor's son Duleep Singh, was taken as a youth, to England, and then to France ... where he married a portugese lady, and reputedly became a playboy.
In other matters, on Good Books to read .....For an excellent read, on the charge of the light brigade, considered 'The reason Why' written by Dame Cecil Woodham-Smith. Excellent writing, and engrossing. She spent 20 yrs researching and writing that book...
Also books by Antonia Fraser, british historian on Louis the 14th's mistresses etc, ....
Enough.
Lemonade. I spent so long writing my last post, I missed yours.
I actually saw King Bhumibol Adulyadej, on a street, in 1957 !
By thai buddhist law, every male buddhist must spend atleat one year as a monk, in his lifetime. And 1957 was the year of 'voluntary conscription' for the king, so he was out, on the streets, as an ordinary monk ... he travelled in a group begging for alms, though he never asked for alms himself, .... it was felt that people might donate super rich food for him ... although the monks all share their alms, alike.
Also he continued to rule the kingdom.
A typo. he died in 2016, not a century earlier.
I am proficient ONLY in english, and my sanskrit level is at 5 percent ... but I remember my father explaining the name of the king...
Bhumibol = Bhumi-paal ... bhumi= land, kingdom, Pal/paal = Lord ...Lord of the Kingdom
Adulyadej = Atulya-tej(a) ... tul = weighing scales, measurement,.... a-tulya = that which cannot be measured , hence Incomparable ,
tej(a) = knowledge, wisdom, or as in,.... Aura of light.
Hence, an incomparable aura of Light.
I have a 60 Baht commemorative currency note, for his Diamond anniversary.
A fine Tuesday PZL.
A lot of fascinating information regarding Burmese and Thai and Asian populations today. We are privileged to enjoy a most enlightening forum.
~ OMK
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DR: A 3-way on the far side.
The central diagonal offers a timely anagram (14 of 15 letters). Just today, the House of Representatives began its formal investigation of the January 6 insurrection--seeking, in their words, to "find the causes behind the actions of the rioters."
This can be framed as a two word study of a puzzle, an investigation into the...
"MELEE CONUNDRUM"!
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