Of all the entries I've seeded into my themeless puzzles over the years, this has to be my favorite.
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Cocooned in this limbo, Jonah puzzles over adult behavior and the incipient sexuality that will finally cleave him from his brothers.
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After 20 episodes of focusing on baffling puzzles over consistent character development, that is a meaningful topic worth exploring in season 3.
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Alfred liked to pose philosophical questions or puzzles over the dinner table and ask his four children about anything that interested them.
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Clare attends in his stead, puzzles over the movie's lead actress who has gone missing, and falls in with some friendly film critics.
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Referencing last year's Pirelli calendar, Li puzzles over Annie Leibovitz's desire to feature women who've "achieved something in their lives" while portraying them the way she did.
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Escobar puzzles over the question, because now he has to scramble for basic supplies like food and dry wood and can't give his children anything of a normal Christmas.
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WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — You would think that after having solved so many puzzles over the years, we would know everything there is to know about the relationship between the OREO cookie and crosswords.
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Ana Méndez-Oliver and David Paul confronted these and dozens of other linguistic puzzles over the summer as they worked on the titles for "Porgy and Bess," which returned to the Metropolitan Opera's repertory on Sept. 23.
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I want to thank my friends and family who have test-solved my puzzles over the past year, my mom for her dependable quality assurance, and my dad without whom YESSIREE BOB would not have been in this puzzle.
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The resulting slim volume of meandering, loosely philosophical observations is really an extended essay with five postscripts printed in a large font, illustrated with details of key paintings, in which he puzzles over Bosch's imagery, in awe of the sheer originality and complexity.
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Throughout his 2003 book RFK: A Memoir, which recounts the last years of Robert F. Kennedy's political career, Jack Newfield puzzles over how to summarize the heterodox political views Kennedy espoused during his pell-mell 81-day campaign for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination.
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As the world of political commentary puzzles over whether the polls were wrong or, as Sean Trende puts it, the pundits were, another question comes to mind: How would this moment be different if the conventional wisdom had not come up so decisively for a Hillary Clinton victory?
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Now let's get back to Martin Gardner and — My Favorite Funny Quickies In building up a file of puzzles over the decades, I have created a special folder in which I toss notes on short problems with answers that are based on some sort of joke, swindle, misdirection or other kind of flimflammery.
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By now, despite their difficulties, Whizzer and Marvin have reunited, and the family has expanded to virtually include Dr. Charlotte (a touching Tracie Thoms), who puzzles over Whizzer's decline, and her lover, the caterer Cordelia (a sweetly daffy Betsy Wolfe), who are folded into the embrace of the makeshift family we have seen assembling.
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In a legal brief, Manning details a vivid kind of fever dream that she still puzzles over — hearing "several reports of suppressed or silenced shots from a pistol" and listening as a group of strangers described their plans to remove her from the U.S.D.B. She refused to leave her cell, she says, and the next morning, the staff carried on as if nothing had happened.
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The coroner gives a verdict of Death by Misadventure for Gerry. Bundle, a friend of Bill Eversleigh, puzzles over this. Gerry Wade died in her room; she finds an unfinished letter from Gerry to Loraine dated the day before he died.
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As Carrie puzzles over this new sensation she's been feeling, she grows more agitated. Suddenly, a little figurine of Jesus levitates, leaving Carrie to wonder if this strange power might possibly be coming from within her. Margaret releases her from the closet and tearfully apologizes for her actions, prompting Carrie to beg for forgiveness as well. The two find solace in each other's goodnight embrace ("Evening Prayers").
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Bugs is revealed to be on display in the "Stacey's Department Store" window, helping to advertise camping gear. After closing time, Bugs retires to have a well- earned carrot. The store manager appears and informs Bugs that since the summer sale's over, he's being transferred to another department, which Bugs puzzles over ("tax-ee-doy-mee?") The man tells the rabbit he will look splendid... after he has been "stuffed".
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Pangbourne Village is an estate for the upper middle class, protected by security fences and discreet guards. Its ten families are wealthy, respectable, 40-something couples with adolescent children on whom they lavish everything money can buy. One morning it is discovered that all the adult residents have been killed and the children have disappeared without trace. Dr Richard Greville of Scotland Yard puzzles over the scanty evidence: it gives no leads to the identity of the murderers and kidnappers.
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When Rilian leads Drinian to the very place where his mother died, Drinian discovers the source of Rilian's behaviour - they spot a beautiful but, in Drinian's opinion, evil woman. Although Drinian puzzles over the obsessive attraction Rilian has for this woman, he also, against his better judgment, succumbs to his friendship with Rilian, and allows him to continue visiting the woman. Rilian rides out the next day without anyone accompanying him but he never returns. Lamenting his grave mistake, Drinian approaches Caspian.
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Raginei as a country is only 1,000 years old, but became extremely wealthy within the last 50 years or so due to a change in ideals implemented by past King Machaty that allowed the international export of oil. While Kajika searches for her suitors and puzzles over the concept of love, the country is thrown into political turmoil and Kajika's friendship with Prince Rumatti Ivan, as well as the Burnsworth relationship with Raginei, lands her right in the middle of it all.
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After recruiting Green Arrow, Shiva returns to Hub City, and saves the Question from an attack by former employees of the now-dead Reverend Hatch. Shiva kills the men, who had been after a fortune in embezzled funds stored in Hatch's abandoned home, and sets fire to the money. Later, she nurses the Question's elderly friend Tot back to health. While the Question puzzles over her inscrutable and violent nature, she confesses that the O-Sensei was "the one man I am certain I would not harm if he kissed me".
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Mysts story concerns an explorer named Atrus who has the ability to write books that serve as links to other worlds, known as Ages. This practice of creating linking books was developed by an ancient civilization known as the D'ni, whose society crumbled after being ravaged by disease. The player takes the role of an unnamed person referred to as the Stranger and assists Atrus by traveling to other Ages and solving puzzles. Over the course of the series Atrus writes a new Age for the D'ni survivors to live on, and players of the games set the course the civilization will follow.
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Pollack has illustrated since then around 50 books, including collaborations and independent works, some of which have become very popular within the observant Jewish world, like musar literature works such as The Terrifying Trap of the Bad Middos Pirates, The Lost Treasure of Tikun HaMiddos Island, and others; as well as a book on the Purim story entitled PurimShpiel and a Passover Haggadah, which involved extensive research into relevant commentaries and midrashim. He also wrote a series of three (as of 2020) books, known as A Yiddishe Kop, which is a series of puzzles. Over 200,000 A Yiddishe Kop books were sold.
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The next morning a search party arrives from the other ship, along with Konrad's crew, looking for a woman they claim to be a murderer. Konrad takes a risk and does not give Li up. Over the remainder of the journey, he shares his food, thoughts, clothes and cabin with his stowaway, keeping her presence on board the ship a secret from his crew, who would use any excuse to strip him of his captaincy. Konrad sets a course that avoids Chinese territorial waters and puzzles over how to help Li escape to freedom and start a new life.
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Presenting herself to Mr. Banks, Mary Poppins calmly produces the children's restored advertisement and agrees with its requests but promises the astonished banker she will be firm with his children. As Mr. Banks puzzles over the advertisement's return, Mary Poppins hires herself, and she convinces him it was originally his idea. She meets the children and helps them magically tidy their nursery by snapping her fingers, before heading out for a walk in the park ("Spoonful of Sugar"). Outside, they meet Mary's old friend, Bert, working as a screever; Mary Poppins uses her magic to transport the group into one of his drawings.
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Matt Gaffney is a professional crossword puzzle constructor and author who lives in Staunton, Virginia. His puzzles have appeared in Billboard magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Beast, Dell Champion Crossword Puzzles, GAMES magazine, the Los Angeles Times, New York magazine, the New York Times, Newsday, The Onion, Slate magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, The Week, and Wine Spectator. Gaffney was thirteen when his first crossword puzzle was published in Dell Champion Crossword Puzzles, and has gone on to create more than 4,000 crossword puzzles over the past 25 years. His puzzles have been published in the New York Times 58 times.
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In January, 1946, the 15-year-old narrator (unnamed except for the "Junior" that distinguishes him from his father) receives an envelope addressed to him found amongst his late father's papers. The contents are a two-page letter of fatherly advice, identifying Senior's main regrets in life as words of warning. A few bits from the letter are quoted, they are "bland homilies" and "banal twaddle". Junior initially puzzles over the form of the letter, not really noticing the content: the fact that the letter was dated to three years previously, the fact that it was typed--which his father never did, the fact that he had no idea of its existence, the fact that the envelope itself, addressed to him, had last been seen in a safe-deposit box.
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In The Tipping Point, author Malcolm Gladwell called the show "sticky," and described its format: > Steve, the host, presents the audience with a puzzle involving Blue, the > animated dog ... To help the audience unlock the puzzle, Blue leaves behind > a series of clues, which are objects marked with one of her paw prints. In > between the discovery of the clues, Steve plays a series of games — mini- > puzzles — with the audience that are thematically related to the overall > puzzle ... As the show unfolds, Steve and Blue move from one animated set to > another, jumping through magical doorways, leading viewers on a journey of > discovery, until, at the end of the story, Steve returns to the living room. > There, at the climax of the show, he sits down in a comfortable chair to > think — a chair known, of course, in the literal world of Blue's Clues, as > the Thinking Chair. He puzzles over Blue's three clues and attempts to come > up with the answer.
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