tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post3557385861819371009..comments2024-03-29T10:56:03.104-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: FRIDAY, Jan. 19, 2007 - Karen M. TraceyRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39817011620711612872007-03-02T17:01:00.000-05:002007-03-02T17:01:00.000-05:00As for 62A Drill command, I was in the US Navy/Sea...As for 62A Drill command, I was in the US Navy/Seabees, and I was the RCPO (recruit chief petty officer)in boot camp, and I got to march around the rest of the girls in my company. Eyes left, or eyes right, (depending what side the General, Admiral, etc. is on) is a command used while you "pass in revue" (march past the higher-up). As you get close, you say "eyes left", turn your head toward the higher-up, while saluting. When you're clear of the higher-up, you give the command "eyes straight" (or was it "eyes forward"?..it's been 25 years) to then stop saluting while turning your head straight forward again.<BR/><BR/>Although in my experience, we never had an Eyes Left, because you salute with your right hand and the higher-up was always on the right side for some reason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60750938661615500562007-03-02T13:17:00.000-05:002007-03-02T13:17:00.000-05:00I kinda liked this puzzle, and finished in 23 minu...I kinda liked this puzzle, and finished in 23 minutes (average for me for a Friday). Somehow I just "knew" several of the answers, including AMARNA and HELLAS and CRACKS UP. I though THE U.S. was weak.<BR/><BR/>Wrong fill: GLOTTAL for PLOSIVEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57732141671160286522007-03-02T11:23:00.000-05:002007-03-02T11:23:00.000-05:00they're reaching on this puzzle!!!!they're reaching on this puzzle!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81298876765091055612007-02-05T08:53:00.000-05:002007-02-05T08:53:00.000-05:00Damn it Corinne, now you have me jonesing for Lloy...Damn it Corinne, now you have me jonesing for Lloyd Cole, and the CD's in my wife's car, and she's at work! So now I'm listening to Alphaville, which, while lovely in its melancholy 80s synth-ness, is a poor substitute for one of the seminal albums of the 80s.<br /><br />RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47985973898613632452007-02-05T01:35:00.000-05:002007-02-05T01:35:00.000-05:00I was not familiar with the song, but now it is ha...I was not familiar with the song, but now it is happily playing on my itunes and it is rather fabulous. Thanks for the rec!<br /><br />CorinneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52586718611334456442007-02-04T08:48:00.000-05:002007-02-04T08:48:00.000-05:00Do you know the (fabulous) song "Rattlesnakes" by ...Do you know the (fabulous) song "Rattlesnakes" by Lloyd Cole? The first time I ever heard Eva Marie Saint's name was while listening to that song. The lyric:<br /><br />She looks like Eva Marie Saint<br />In "On the Waterfont"<br />She reads Simone de Beauvoir<br />In her American cicumstance<br /><br />Don't know what that last bit means, exactly, but the song is quite infectious.<br /><br />RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47573090083927561662007-02-04T00:26:00.000-05:002007-02-04T00:26:00.000-05:00Totally didn't get this puzzle solved without exte...Totally didn't get this puzzle solved without extensive help from google, but I was rather proud of getting J. Alfred Prufrock and Eva Marie - which was purely by the virtue of my campus having a theatre named after her and all sorts of historical facts about her in the theatre. I had Athens before I had Persia, which really screwed me up for a while.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62513685441798387482007-01-20T17:37:00.000-05:002007-01-20T17:37:00.000-05:00Yes, "strangely comforting," I like that. It shoul...Yes, "strangely comforting," I like that. It should be my blog's motto.<br /><br />I'm going to start using AMARNA as if it were the functional equivalent of ALOHA and see what happens.<br /><br />Thank you, Overland Park!<br /><br />RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-76055250791356908192007-01-20T16:57:00.000-05:002007-01-20T16:57:00.000-05:00Have never had to look up so many answers but in t...Have never had to look up so many answers but in the process found this site (Google got me here via "amarna")--so reassuring and strangely comforting to have the same probs as everyone else.<br />Glad to know you're out there; you're now bookmarked and I'm on to Saturday's puzzle.<br />Thanks for the help<br />Overland Park KansasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-498468034957626722007-01-19T22:24:00.000-05:002007-01-19T22:24:00.000-05:00I would have been happier if the answer to "The Ba...I would have been happier if the answer to "The Barsetshire novels novelist" had been ANGELA THIRKELL, which would have fit. Would have been just as correct and very out of the mainstream. Love her novels.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62567068408791117092007-01-19T21:29:00.000-05:002007-01-19T21:29:00.000-05:00If you were a young adult in the seventies, as I w...If you were a young adult in the seventies, as I was, we know where our brain cells went!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8063129221612386422007-01-19T19:56:00.000-05:002007-01-19T19:56:00.000-05:00Takes me back... I grew up with the New York Times...Takes me back... I grew up with the New York Times, and since there were no funny papers to read on Sunday, kids would pull out the Arts section to find the NINAs in Hirschfeld's drawings. This would be before I graduated to the puzzle page. <br /><br />Could you hear that pounding sound? That was my head against the wall, trying to remember Danson's character name (Diane, Frazier, Woody, Coach, Cliff, Norm, Carla, and... ARRRGH where did those brain cells go?).C zarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12893340048068815126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37322592429023349812007-01-19T19:00:00.000-05:002007-01-19T19:00:00.000-05:00It was David Kahn who did the hidden-NINA puzzle (...It was David Kahn who did the hidden-NINA puzzle (2/9/03), with 16 NINAs lurking word-search-style in the grid.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43102515135609527532007-01-19T18:13:00.000-05:002007-01-19T18:13:00.000-05:00A few years back (and I apologize for not remember...A few years back (and I apologize for not remembering the constructor) there was a very clever Sunday puzzle riddled with hidden Ninas, in honor of Hirschfeld. It (the puzzle) received quite a lot of feedback, both on the puzzle forum and in the letters to the editor column, as I recall.<br /><br />--kratsmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-76942961286501533212007-01-19T17:48:00.000-05:002007-01-19T17:48:00.000-05:00Al Hirschfeld was born in 1903 and lived to be 99 ...Al Hirschfeld was born in 1903 and lived to be 99 years of age. I met him in 1986 when he was 83. His daughter Nina was born in 1945. Hirschfeld drew her name in the background of the theatrical drawing, for the play Are You With It, that he did that day. The flowing lines of the N I N A were occasionally worked into the folds of drapery or strands of hair. It became a game he played with his audience. In 1956 he actually appended a numeral after his signature to tell his fans how many NINAs he'd hidden. His work appeared in The New York Times for over 60 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31233317409577371172007-01-19T17:10:00.000-05:002007-01-19T17:10:00.000-05:00O no no no, not strawberry-scented gloves, ick. I ...O no no no, not strawberry-scented gloves, ick. I would have hurled for sure. We actually had a long discussion about "flavored" gloves (which she doesn't use). She just smells nice is all. <br /><br />RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56884405312504497402007-01-19T17:03:00.000-05:002007-01-19T17:03:00.000-05:00Well, I did go into freefall, for a time anyway. ...Well, I did go into freefall, for a time anyway. Believe it or not, St. Francis Xavier was a gimme for me. Something else that came from spending eight years in Catholic school -- other things include good posture, impeccable grammar (adjusted for blogging), and the ability to memorize just about anything. Glad to hear that accomplished solvers had a problem. This took me well over an hour -- good thing I'm on sabbatical. By the way, Rex, your hygienist might wear strawberry-scented gloves. Mine wore bubblegum until I told her it made me want to hurl. She quickly (cleverly) changed scents.Linda Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15816794362786044423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51290518141756826182007-01-19T16:59:00.000-05:002007-01-19T16:59:00.000-05:00Yeah, as I always tell my wife when she laughs at ...Yeah, as I always tell my wife when she laughs at someone for missing and easy question on Jeopardy:<br /><br />They're all easy if you know them. <br /><br />I used to subscribe to <i>Cineaste</i> magazine and wasn't thrown by the "Var." I'm familiar with Al Hirschfeld (or rather, for some reason have clear memories of his obits when he died a few years ago) so that was there for me.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I haven't looked it up so I still don't have a clue who or what a J. Alfred Prufrock is.Alex S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07543077687426776863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1241746330275179242007-01-19T13:34:00.000-05:002007-01-19T13:34:00.000-05:00Wow, those are some exotic gimmes - every one of t...Wow, those are some exotic gimmes - every one of them tripped me. <br /><br />Phantom Zone! Yes, thank you, sir.<br /><br />RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59086221329223051522007-01-19T13:23:00.000-05:002007-01-19T13:23:00.000-05:00Very difficult day for me with only NINAS, CINEAST...Very difficult day for me with only NINAS, CINEAST, and CARIB (though that was just pure inspiration, don't know where it came from) as pure gimmes.<br /><br />Lots of equally valid pairs: De Klerk and Mandela. Hellas and Greece. Sparta and Persia. MALONE was almost a gimme but he was also BECKER for six seasons. Dallas had not only VAL, but SUE and PAM.<br /><br />Oh well, such things keep you from filling in but at least once things start to come together they fall in quickly.Alex S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07543077687426776863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52368774067183553072007-01-19T12:58:00.001-05:002007-01-19T12:58:00.001-05:00Phantom ZonePhantom ZoneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23639805285383363642007-01-19T12:58:00.000-05:002007-01-19T12:58:00.000-05:00Nina is hirshfield's daughter...he typically hides...Nina is hirshfield's daughter...he typically hides her name somewhere in each of his drawings...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com