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  • nosirrah Cryptic Solver's Manual
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  • Ladies in Girdles 2
Best Picture
Wings sings The Broadway Melody It’s All Quiet on the Western Front But hostilities Cimarron At the Grand Hotel Cavalcade It Happened One Night the show was delayed Inciting a Mutiny on the Bounty 'Great,' grated Ziegfeld, 'no discount, eh?' 'It seems Of this Life,' Emile Zola opined 'You Can’t Take it With You, it’s Gone with the Wind' The day she turned 40 Rebecca O’Malley Said, 'Oh lackaday, How Green Was My Valley My friend Mrs Miniver Are you movin’ over To Casablanca or Going My Way down the alley? We’ve Lost the Weekend and The Best Years of Our Lives Through the Gentleman’s Agreement each husband contrives And not even Hamlet nor All the King’s Men Can bring back our youth and beauty again' Have you heard All About Eve? An American in Paris, in the 50s I believe Who said that The Greatest Show on Earth or sea Of all time - From Here to Eternity Occurred On the Waterfront when Marty Trying to go Around the World in 80 Days with a party At the Bridge on the River Kwai-etly resigned When Gigi alleged he was rob-Ben Hur blind Apartment 60 on the West Side, so Story goes Is where Laurence of Arabia and Mr Tom Jones Introduced My Fair Lady (with bells on her toes) To The Sound of Music played on saxophones And though he is known as A Man for all Seasons In The Heat of the Night, Oliver! has his reasons To usefully employ A Midnight Cowboy Ignoring the effect of all the drugs he’s on Patton (70) denies Le Connection’s request When The Godfather Stings himself Twice overall For just as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest So Rocky the road grew For sweet Annie Hall Who says that she finds The Deer Hunter tamer Than the antagonists in Kramer vs Kramer. In the 80s, Ordinary People can hire Awesome weapons like Chariots of Fire But peace-loving Gandhi Finds it so handy To whisper sweet Terms of Endearment Causing Amadeus his first major movement … Moving Out of Africa with a Platoon Puts The Last Emperor over the moon Though the Rain Man’s dance won’t come to an end Driving Miss Daisy right round the bend In Dances With Wolves The Silence of the Lambs Could be Unforgiven Lest they’re on the duty List Schindler evolves For Forrest Gump A Braveheart who crams The English Patient’s chump With Titanic promiscuity Outdoing Shakespeare in Love With an American Beauty A Gladiator with A Beautiful Mind? It's Chicago in the aughties I think you’ll find Though The Lord Of The Rings: Return of The King Where nobody sings Is more my thing And a Million Dollar Baby goes Crash on a swing The Departed report there's No Country for Old Men And a Slumdog Millionaire awaits winner number ten Maybe he should have a beta-blocker To get over his Hurt Locker The King’s Speech in the 2010s Was written by The Artist who referenced Argo Who was 12 Years a Slave While the Birdman (With the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Was in the Spotlight In the Moonlight Where The Shape of Water Appeared in the Green BookAs a Parasite

In the 2020s Nomadland has a CODA Where Everything is Everywhere All at Once Leaving Oppenheimer Desiring AnoraWho finds herself in a potherWith One Battle After Another

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