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Article, Poem or Story
 Explanation or Hint
Adagio: 3rd stanza, 8th line.
Albatross: They can live about 50 years.
Bartholin, The Springs of:
 The Bartholin glands are two glands located slightly below and to the left and right of the opening of the vagina in women. They secrete mucus to provide lubrication, especially when the woman is sexually aroused.
Disillusionment: Gelignite is a high explosive.
GWB: Not the George Washington Bridge.
Member, The: The first draft was written in 1975.
In the early '70s Whitman Knapp was chairman of the commission which investigated police corruption in NYC.
Pied Piper, The:

 The Scholar & the Fellow are real; the mother & daughter are generic.
horse (the) = heroin; Mary Jane = marijuana; acidity (acid = LSD)
Rebbes: Are not, necessarily, members of, or sympathizers with, the Confederacy.
Second Coming, The: Spiritus Mundi = Soul of the World
SETI Acronym: Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, see Are We Alone?
Sweet Harold: MCP = Male Chauvinist Pig
Tablets of Gilboab, The: cerement = a waxed cloth used for the wrapping of embalmed cadavers.
myrmidon = 1. a brutal soldier who blindly & cruelly executes orders. 2. a law enforcement officer.
seneschal = an officer of a princely court responsible for the supervision of ceremonies & festivals.
Talent You Need,  The:
Andy Warhol, erstwhile American counter-culture icon & Pop Artist, 1928-1987
They Say
 oticidal = ear killing
tautologies = needless repetitions in different words; mumbo-jumbo


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