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GIVING YOU THE BOOT
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$200
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Buzzfeed featured these double-talk, thigh-high boots "that will look totally far out in your closet"
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go-go boots
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$400
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We'll wear these rubberized boots & walk through all kinds of puddles to go home & enjoy the same-named beef dish
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Wellingtons
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$600
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Woo-woo! All aboard these boots, known for their stovepipe calf
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engineer boots
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$800
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As well as pants for horse riding, they can be ankle-high boots with a strap buckled at the side
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the jodhpur
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$1000
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This type of boot seen here shares its name with areas in London & New York City
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Chelsea
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$400
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In 1985 Apple's board gave this guy the heave-ho but 12 years later he got ho-heaved & was back in charge
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(Steve) Jobs
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$800
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A rough New Year's Day in 1959 for Fulgencio Batista, who woke up as president of this country & went to sleep as an exile
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Cuba
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$1200
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Getting the supreme boot in Genesis, he was told, "a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be"
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Cain
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$1600
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This Bolshevik got exiled to Siberia twice, expelled from the Politburo in 1926 & the Soviet Union itself 3 years later
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Trotsky
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$2000
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Elected to Congress from Tennessee in 1833 as an Anti-Jacksonian, he got the boot in the 1834 election & headed off to Texas
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Davy Crockett
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GOOD HISTORY
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Around 400,000 B.C., hominids began to control this; one later use may have been to destroy habitat so as to aid hunting & foraging
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fire
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$400
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This group of 10 guarantees (out of the 12 sent to the states) was ratified in December 1791
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a Bill of Rights
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$600
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At first the church didn't oppose this Polish man's ideas; the center of the universe was filthy, so better not to be there
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Copernicus
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$800
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In the 1960s, Stanley Lebar of Westinghouse designed a special camera that allowed 650 million to see live video from here
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the Moon
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$1000
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In 2020, these accords named for a biblical man raised to 6 the Arab nations with diplomatic ties to Israel
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the Abraham Accords
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ACTING UP ON TV
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$200
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"Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty" stars Quincy Isaiah as this Laker rookie from Lansing
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Magic Johnson
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"And Just Like That...", she was back on TV as Miranda Hobbes in 2021
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Cynthia Nixon
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$600
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An Oscar winner as the outspoken Erin Brockovich, in 2022 she was "Gaslit" on TV as "Mouth of the South" Martha Mitchell
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Julia Roberts
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$800
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It's the last name of John Hillerman's Jonathan & Perdita Weeks' Juliet, friends of "Magnum P.I." across the decades
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Higgins
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$1000
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Beltalowda! Keon Alexander showed wide range as Marco Inaros, leader of the Free Navy on this Amazon sci-fi show
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The Expanse
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THE WOUK MOB
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$200
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In a novel by Herman Wouk, unstable Captain Queeg of the USS Caine faces this title event
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The Caine Mutiny
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$400
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In Wouk's "Aurora Dawn" from 1947, a young man works in this broadcast medium; Wouk lived to write a book partly in e-mails
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radio
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$600
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"The Winds of War" begins with "Pug" Henry made military attache in this European city, sensing the winds of war indeed
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Berlin
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$800
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In a '50s bestseller Wouk's heroine Marjorie Morgenstern anglicizes her last name to this & seeks fame as an actress
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Morningstar
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$1000
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Physicist Guy Carpenter is out of a job in "A Hole in Texas", based on the real cancellation of the Superconducting this machine
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Super Collider
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COLOR ME BAD
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$200
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If you've been afflicted by the green-eyed monster, you're guilty of this
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jealousy
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$400
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This rhyming fictional "illness" involves police officers disrupting operations by calling in sick
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the blue flu
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$600
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If you're cowardly, you can be lily-livered or this other hyphenated term mentioning a nearby body part
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yellow-bellied
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$800
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This annoying condition is also known as conjunctivitis
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pink eye
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$1000
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Seen here, this seawater discoloration caused by dinoflagellates can be lethal to marine life
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red tide
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"THE" END
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$200
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To feel intense dislike
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loathe
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$400
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To alleviate or provide solace
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soothe
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$600
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To fancy up an argument with big words, or to array with garments
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to clothe
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$800
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To be filled with violent emotion, perhaps rage
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seethe
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$1000
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Happy & lighthearted, like a title spirit in a classic Noël Coward play
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a blithe
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10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS
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$400
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This branch of the U.S. government makes the laws
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legislative
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$800
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Keep your eye on the birdie, also known by this longer name
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the shuttlecock
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$1200
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Another word for the draft, it's mandatory enrollment in the military
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conscription
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$1600
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This word meaning "nonsense" begins with the name of a son of Odin
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balderdash
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$2000
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This term for a tightrope walker comes from Latin for "rope" & "walk"
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a funambulist
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TROPHY HUSBANDS
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This husband of Nicole Kidman was the 2018 Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year
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Keith Urban
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$800
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When he won Best Director at Cannes for "After Hours", he was married to Barbara de Fina, who produced his "The Color of Money"
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Martin Scorsese
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$1200
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Yvonne Molinaro married 2 winners of this gridiron trophy, 1954 honoree Alan Ameche & 1946's Glenn Davis
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the Heisman
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$1600
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John McEnroe won his last few ATP singles titles while he was married to this former child star
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Tatum O\'Neal
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$2000
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L.A. Musicians Institute was the meeting place of Jae Lin & this husband, a 2022 Grammy winner with Silk Sonic partner Bruno Mars
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Anderson Paak
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AMERICANA
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$400
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He's the only president honored on Mount Rushmore who lived into the 20th century
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Roosevelt
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$800
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Georgia is a leading producer of the 3 Ps: peaches, peanuts & these praline nuts
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pecans
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$1200
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Belonging to a cousin, the historic home seen here in Salem, Massachusetts, inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write this novel
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The House of the Seven Gables (The House of Gables)
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$1600
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It's the year chiseled into Plymouth Rock
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1620
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One of New York City's oldest streets, the Bowery once led to the farm of this last Dutch colonial governor
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(Peter) Stuyvesant
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ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES
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David stood upon this "Philistine, and took his sword... and cut off his head therewith"
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Goliath
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In Exodus, "Behold", this "burned with fire, and (it) was not consumed"
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the (burning) bush
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"And when he had opened the fourth seal... I looked, and behold a pale" this: "and his name that sat on him was Death"
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horse
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$1600
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As Jesus "walked by" this body of water, "he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers"
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the Sea of Galilee
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$2000
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Since no one had done this for 40 years, God told Joshua to get a knife & do it to the male Israelites
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circumcise
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FEELIN' INDEPENDENT
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$400
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This Asian country, not yet divided into North & South: From France, 1945
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Vietnam
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$800
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Angola: 1975, from this country
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Portugal
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$1200
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This country: 1971, from Pakistan
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Bangladesh
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$1600
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Belgium: 1830, from this country
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the Netherlands
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$2000
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Montenegro: 2006, ending a union with this other Yugoslav republic
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Serbia
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ART & THEATRE
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N/A
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Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play, Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree
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Waiting for Godot
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