HeathenBenny wrote:What's wrong with Sendak? Don't know about his life.
Got the "wild things" reference instantly. I didn't think that it was negbait, there was nothing else in the clue of any substance.
Uh-oh... Beg to differ: "...it's through fantasy that children achieve catharsis..." Which was the basic premise of his book, "Where the Wild Things Are"; the story of a naughty boy that has misadventures with wild varmints and gets the naughtiness out (catharsis); then goes home well-mannered for dinnertime. Instant recognition at the subsurface level as the obvious TOM.
Another solid game for men who stare at goats with 38/61 correct responses and 5 pickups on lach trash FTW from the 4th. Got 'Bloody Mary Poppins', 'The Long March of the Penguins' and Puss & Boots on the Ground', clam on Larry David Copperfield and failed to grasp the Miami Heat Miser (NHO Heat Miser!). Satisfied hit on 'macrame' while the wife sings out 'crochet', both 7 letters by happy chance!
Nailed Frigga, Pele of KIlauea, Athena / Parthenon, Clota of the River Clyde, miss on Thoth, gave Hathor thinking this is the Goddess category, but DOH the clue said his female counterpart was Seshat, read the question!
Strong in opera with Leonora's poison ring from il Trovatore (what a horribly depressing drama, worse than Greek tragedy because it feels pointless, such misery! factoid: Leonora is a also minor planet in the asteroid belt), Lohengrin (Son of Parsifal/var: Parsival, this is the guy who shows up in boat drawn by swans to defend Princess Elsa {shades of Frozen!} in Wagner's opera; he also wrote Parsifal, a prequel, which was banned from performance outside the Bayreuth Festspielhaus until after Richard died.) Instaget barber of Seville music score and Puccini's La Boheme set in Paris' latin Quarter, Washington DC Kennedy Center Opera House putting on a version this month with really drab modernized sets, meh. Of course tobacco girls - Carmen, Pavlov.
Puerto Rico category was fun, got Columbus, 'zip line', governor, and King Juan Carlos first Spanish monarch to visit; NHO Pablo Casals, cellist. Got flags of Spain, Thailand, India (the wheel on their flag represents Gandhi's spinning wheel), Lebanon with parsley for the cedar tree & Greece, gosh, that was a fun category!
Got guillotine, Wages & Prices, Notre Dame, and Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress Consort (her hubby was a victim of the blade in above clue, poor devil! BTW she's the maternal grandmother of Napoleon III, although she had no children by Napoleon, for which failure he eventually dumped her for Marie Louise, one of the 16 children of Maria Teresa, Empress of of Austria and the last Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, an idiosyncratic cognomen for a loose coalition of feudal states which was neither holy, Roman nor an empire.) Clam on Jacobins.
Did poorly on baseball phrases, somehow no clicking in the CPU, only got in the 'ball park' but 'touch base' take a 'rain check' seem all too easy, sigh; then got 0/5 on rhyming product names, OW! but consolation prizes in Eau, Emu, Esau & Elihu Hunt (TR sec state), NHO Ecru for raw, unbleached linen, apparently it means 'beige-colored'. Other fun gets: Rolex / Timex; Mombasa is in Kenya (deep reach: Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, Warren Zevon from his Excitable Boy album: After Van Owen betrays Roland and decapitates him with machine gun burst; the headless phantom tracks him down in a Mombasa bar to take revenge, truly a grisly hoot!
Fairy tale fun: Jack & the Beanstalk = Golden Goose; Chaucer: Nun's Tale:: Rooster: Fox instaget & Henny Penny = Chicken Little; "The Sky is Falling!" In Brad Pitt films only got WW Z and Troy, wife called Inglorious Bastards and I said; "Where you get that?! She replied; "We watched that together you silly goose!" Senility creeps... 'Don't count your chickens before they're hatched, eh!"
LOL and jump for joy at Billina the talking Hen, Dorothy's companion in the sequel to The Wizard of Oz, "Ozma of Oz" in which Dorothy rescues Princess Ozma from the wily Nome King, whom Billina offended by laying an egg under his throne (he suffered from a fatal ooallergic syndrome, ROFL) and they become BFFL, lol, I'm getting all misty-eyed! This book introduces new absurd characters: the Hungry Tiger, who had a craving for babies but couldn't bear to eat them for pangs of conscience, hence he always went hungry; and Tik-Tok, a copper mechanical man, inspiring future robots.
Sigh, I'm feeling... Nostalgia; what is a word meaning poignant memory, derived from the Greek for 'pain'?