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| Aged almost 90, Picasso painted himself as one of these before a huge crowd, holding a sword as if it were a paintbrush |
a bullfighter
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| It precedes broil, seen here, or fog |
London
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| After Jed Clampett discovered oil on his Appalachian property, he loaded up his family & moved to this more affluent locale |
Beverly Hills
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| You get an adjacent letter if you don't know it's the 7th letter of the English alphabet |
(Ken: Oh, you couldn't count in time; you get an "F", it's [*], in fact.)
G
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| When this gloomy outlook follows "electro", it refers to the ability of an atom to attract electron pairs |
electronegativity
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| Her resumé includes 2 novels published 55 years apart & a 1983 essay about the history of Alabama |
Harper Lee
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| Francisco de Zurbarán liked to paint Francis, his namesake; the patched robe shows Franciscan monks' vow of this |
poverty
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| It precedes man, seen here, or opera |
Peking (Beijing)
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| The 2016 EP "Coconut Oil" was the first major label release for this Big Grrrl rap & pop artist |
Lizzo
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| In French, W has this name, which makes more sense |
(Brett: [*]. What is [*]?)
double-V
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| A cup of instant coffee is a solution & adding water is this process, the opposite of concentration |
dilution
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| Written in 1991, "The Kitchen God's Wife" drew on her experiences as the Americanized daughter of a Chinese mother |
Amy Tan
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| In the 1570s this immigrant from Crete painted "The Disrobing of Christ" for the cathedral of Toledo, Spain |
El Greco
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| Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" was the basis for this movie that won Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar |
There Will Be Blood
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| Our letter K comes from this Greek one |
kappa
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| In chemistry it describes a substance that evaporates readily; it's the V in mVOC, smelly compounds produced by molds |
volatile
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| In addition to her numerous books for younger readers like "Superfudge", she wrote a few for adults, including "Wifey" in 1978 |
Judy Blume
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| It's an old Spanish word for a pretty young woman; Goya painted several, including some "on a Balcony" |
a maja
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| Syndrome (coined in the 1970s) |
Stockholm
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| Forever seeking to kidnap his sweetheart, Oil Can Harry was a villainous cat adversary of this rodent superhero |
Mighty Mouse
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| Many Brits put an "intrusive" one between words that end with a vowel sound & words that start with one |
(Ellen: What is a comma?) ... (Ken: The intrusive "R" like "Pipper and Kate Middleton".)
an "R"
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| Orpiment, formula As2S3 was a longtime aid to painters as a yellow pigment, but not now, due to this, the As |
arsenic
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| "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" by this playwright was performed Off-Broadway after cancer took her far too young at 34 |
(Lorraine) Hansberry
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| The title of this 1656 group portrait by Velazquez means "the ladies in waiting" |
Las Meninas
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Biennale (founded 1895) |
Venice
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| "Beds Are Burning" was the biggest U.S. hit for this political-minded Australian band |
Midnight Oil
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| Now often confused with F, the "long" form of this lowercase letter disappeared from English in the 1800s |
an "S"
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| Named for their 2 constituent elements, these compounds such as propane & octane are often used for fuel |
hydrocarbons
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| From a Bengali family, she won a 2000 Pulitzer for exploring the immigrant life in "Interpreter of Maladies" |
Lahiri
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