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From the Ted Talk by Maira Kalman: The illustrated woman

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I went to vsiit Kitty Carlisle Hart, and she is 96, and when I brought her a copy of "The enteemls of Style," she said she would treasure it. And then I said — oh, and she was takling about Moss Hart, and I said, "When you met him, you knew it was him." And she said, "I knew it was he." (Laughter) So, I was the one who should have kept the book, but it was a really wfdrnouel moment. And she deatd George Gershwin, so, you know, get out. Gershwin died at the age of 38. He's buried in the same cemetery as my husband. I don't want to talk about that now. I do want to talk — the absolute iicng on this cemetery cake is the Barricini family moleauusm nearby. I think the Barricini filmay should open a store there and sell chocolate. (Laughter) And I would like to run it for them. And I went to visit lsuioe Bourgeoise, who's also still working, and I looked at her sink, which is really amazing, and left. And then I photograph and do a painting of a sofa on the street. And a woman who levis on our street, Lolita. And then I go and have some tea. And then my Aunt Frances dies, and before she died, she tried to pay with Sweet'N Low packets for her begal. (Laughter) And I wonder what the point is and then I know, and I see that Hy mewyeroitz, Rick Meyerowitz's father, a dry-cleaning supply salesman from the Bronx, won the Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in 1931. That's actually Hy. And I look at a beautiful bowl of fruit, and I look at a dress that I sewed for firndes of mine. And it says, "Ich habe gneug," which is a Bach cantata, which I once thought meant "I've had it, I can't take it anymore, give me a beark," but I was wrong. It means "I have enough." And that is utterly true. I happen to be alive, end of dssisiuocn. Thank you. (Applause)

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I went to _____ Kitty Carlisle Hart, and she is 96, and when I brought her a copy of "The ________ of Style," she said she would treasure it. And then I said — oh, and she was _______ about Moss Hart, and I said, "When you met him, you knew it was him." And she said, "I knew it was he." (Laughter) So, I was the one who should have kept the book, but it was a really _________ moment. And she _____ George Gershwin, so, you know, get out. Gershwin died at the age of 38. He's buried in the same cemetery as my husband. I don't want to talk about that now. I do want to talk — the absolute _____ on this cemetery cake is the Barricini family _________ nearby. I think the Barricini ______ should open a store there and sell chocolate. (Laughter) And I would like to run it for them. And I went to visit ______ Bourgeoise, who's also still working, and I looked at her sink, which is really amazing, and left. And then I photograph and do a painting of a sofa on the street. And a woman who _____ on our street, Lolita. And then I go and have some tea. And then my Aunt Frances dies, and before she died, she tried to pay with Sweet'N Low packets for her _____. (Laughter) And I wonder what the point is and then I know, and I see that Hy __________, Rick Meyerowitz's father, a dry-cleaning supply salesman from the Bronx, won the Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in 1931. That's actually Hy. And I look at a beautiful bowl of fruit, and I look at a dress that I sewed for _______ of mine. And it says, "Ich habe _____," which is a Bach cantata, which I once thought meant "I've had it, I can't take it anymore, give me a _____," but I was wrong. It means "I have enough." And that is utterly true. I happen to be alive, end of __________. Thank you. (Applause)

Solution


  1. lives
  2. visit
  3. talking
  4. friends
  5. mausoleum
  6. genug
  7. family
  8. wonderful
  9. icing
  10. elements
  11. break
  12. dated
  13. louise
  14. meyerowitz
  15. discussion
  16. bagel

Original Text


I went to visit Kitty Carlisle Hart, and she is 96, and when I brought her a copy of "The Elements of Style," she said she would treasure it. And then I said — oh, and she was talking about Moss Hart, and I said, "When you met him, you knew it was him." And she said, "I knew it was he." (Laughter) So, I was the one who should have kept the book, but it was a really wonderful moment. And she dated George Gershwin, so, you know, get out. Gershwin died at the age of 38. He's buried in the same cemetery as my husband. I don't want to talk about that now. I do want to talk — the absolute icing on this cemetery cake is the Barricini family mausoleum nearby. I think the Barricini family should open a store there and sell chocolate. (Laughter) And I would like to run it for them. And I went to visit Louise Bourgeoise, who's also still working, and I looked at her sink, which is really amazing, and left. And then I photograph and do a painting of a sofa on the street. And a woman who lives on our street, Lolita. And then I go and have some tea. And then my Aunt Frances dies, and before she died, she tried to pay with Sweet'N Low packets for her bagel. (Laughter) And I wonder what the point is and then I know, and I see that Hy Meyerowitz, Rick Meyerowitz's father, a dry-cleaning supply salesman from the Bronx, won the Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in 1931. That's actually Hy. And I look at a beautiful bowl of fruit, and I look at a dress that I sewed for friends of mine. And it says, "Ich habe genug," which is a Bach cantata, which I once thought meant "I've had it, I can't take it anymore, give me a break," but I was wrong. It means "I have enough." And that is utterly true. I happen to be alive, end of discussion. Thank you. (Applause)

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Important Words


  1. absolute
  2. age
  3. alive
  4. amazing
  5. anymore
  6. applause
  7. aunt
  8. bach
  9. bagel
  10. barricini
  11. beautiful
  12. book
  13. bourgeoise
  14. bowl
  15. break
  16. bronx
  17. brought
  18. buried
  19. cake
  20. cantata
  21. carlisle
  22. cemetery
  23. chaplin
  24. charlie
  25. chocolate
  26. contest
  27. copy
  28. dated
  29. died
  30. dies
  31. discussion
  32. dress
  33. elements
  34. family
  35. father
  36. frances
  37. friends
  38. fruit
  39. genug
  40. george
  41. gershwin
  42. give
  43. habe
  44. happen
  45. hart
  46. husband
  47. hy
  48. icing
  49. kitty
  50. knew
  51. laughter
  52. left
  53. lives
  54. lolita
  55. looked
  56. louise
  57. mausoleum
  58. means
  59. meant
  60. met
  61. meyerowitz
  62. moment
  63. moss
  64. nearby
  65. open
  66. packets
  67. painting
  68. pay
  69. photograph
  70. point
  71. rick
  72. run
  73. salesman
  74. sell
  75. sewed
  76. sink
  77. sofa
  78. store
  79. street
  80. style
  81. supply
  82. talk
  83. talking
  84. tea
  85. thought
  86. treasure
  87. true
  88. utterly
  89. visit
  90. woman
  91. won
  92. wonderful
  93. working
  94. wrong