Add 3 letters in front of the first name to get a destination. Insert 1 letter in the last name to get a different destination.Q: Take the name of a well-known artist. The first name can be divided to form two common words that are synonyms. The last name can be anagrammed to form an antonym of those two words. Who is the artist, and what are the words?
Edit: San Diego and Riviera
A: DIEGO RIVERA --> DIE, GO, ARRIVE
Here's my standard reminder... don't post the answer or any hints that could lead directly to the answer (e.g. via a chain of thought, or an internet search) before the deadline of Thursday at 3pm ET. If you know the answer, click the link and submit it to NPR, but don't give it away here.
ReplyDeleteYou may provide indirect hints to the answer to show you know it, but make sure they don't give the answer away. You can openly discuss your hints and the answer after the Thursday deadline. Thank you.
Just send me to hell or Salt Lake City
ReplyDeleteIt would be about the same to me
That's Uncle Kracker’s "If Heaven Ain’t a Lot Like Detroit" (based on Hank Williams, Jr.’s song about Dixie), and references Rivera’s "Detroit Industry Murals".
DeleteThe scrambled last name’s word is an antonym much more of the first name’s second synonym than the first.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. While the two words are synonyms, I have only used one of them as an antonym to the antonym. I have never used the other one that way.
DeleteDefinitely. Perhaps a better phrasing for the puzzle would be: Split the first name to get two words, and anagram the last name to get a third word. The second word can have multiple meanings; by one meaning, it’s a synonym of the first word, and by another, it’s an antonym of the third word.
Delete(Blaine, I don’t believe this is TMI, but if it is, please delete and accept my apologies)
My daughter-in-law painted a portrait, hanging in our home, of someone famously associated with this artist. And the artist once praised a lesser-known artist of whom I’m fond and whose work figured prominently once-upon-a-time in my professional life. No clue here.
ReplyDeleteTMI, perhaps?
DeleteAs I said above, I intended no clue (which is not the same as saying there isn’t one, unintended). But I thought (and still think) that the allusions were general or vague enough that only someone who’s already solved the puzzle would understand them (and perhaps not even the latter one, which is especially recondite, even for those who’ve solved it).
DeleteSo-so puzzle, but thanks to Greg for bringing this fantastic artist to mind.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I’ll dream up a clue this afternoon.
ReplyDelete"Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park"
DeleteAlmost as easy as last week's disappointment.
ReplyDeleteTake the artists last name, add a letter, rearrange, head there, and enjoy your holiday.
ReplyDeleteMay the holiday season, and the new year, bring peace, joy, and health.
No rearranging needed though, eh?
DeleteAnd I echo your good wishes for all.
It all depends on where you add it…
DeleteAh, I see.
DeleteHaving qualified by solving a fairly easy challenge, this week's lucky listener was rewarded with a very tough game of time-pressure categories while his friends listened in. Sic transit gloria mundi! Curiously, each puzzle has a connection to the name of the mystery artist.
ReplyDeleteYou can tell who solves puzzles by just going to the Internet...and who solves puzzles by thinking, sometimes for quite a while. Thinkers do well playing on air; Internet dummies don't fare so well.
DeleteHi and welcome WiS.
DeleteYou make a good point, but I have to say I think it is just a bit too simplistic. I listened this morning to that pathetic and embarrassing on air challenge, but came away with a somewhat different take. What concerned me most was that he stated he solved last week's "puzzle" by using a list, and a wife too, I think. I got it almost instantly while still in bed, sans wife, and found it insulting to be offered up such drivel. As to today's guest stumbling over the answers I would have to say it could have been the result of several reasons, and not that he wasn't knowledgeable of the answers, but may have just been overwhelmed a bit. Had I been the guest, as I have been in the past, I would not have been able to answer more than one of the sports team questions because I am proud to not know anything about a sport I despise. Well, I might as well confess that I probably would have got one of them, the Yankees. I could have answered all the dog questions, but may have had to think a bit because I do not like dogs. I would have easily gone with the flow on the river questions, but then I would be accused of making a bad pun; something I would never do. We all focus on different topics, and even when we may know the facts, may still freeze sometimes.
I meant Vis. Sorry.
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ReplyDeleteOk, I finally came up with a hint: Duplicate the final letter of the first name of someone famously associated with the artist, rearrange, and get a key word in a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson that was one of Robert Kennedy’s favorites.
ReplyDeleteTook me awhile but I finally got it. I enjoy these kinds of puzzles because I end up learning a little about the broader subject on the way to solving it.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it’s my ignorance that’s showing, but I think Will has strayed too far down in the woods when he selected this as a solve-at-home puzzle. Having gotten that off my chest, the artist’s first name anagrams to an animal.
ReplyDeleteThe clues were really revealing this time. I agree about the anagram being rather a stretch for an antonym of the first half.
ReplyDeleteI first thought counting one of the synonyms as an antonym for the anagram was a big stretch too, but there is a familiar context in which they're clearly antonyms. I guess anything pointing there would be a very small hint, and in fact would probably be too much information. Oh I know: change the 'c' to an 'n'!
ReplyDeletePerhaps it is last night's full moon, but this is one of the strangest Sunday Puzzles ever.
ReplyDeleteFor the first time ever (I think) the host read the on air clues portion. Where was Will?
The on air victim had brain freeze with no first aid available (except perhaps Will's absence).
Eco makes a puzzle with an anagram.
Aside from that, it seems that some folks are anagraming the first name. The result is interesting, but useless.
Blaine gives not one but two TMI clues, another near first.
And/y (Warhol) makes a surprising pair as does Vin/Cent (van Gogh).
Not unusual is sdb's insult.
That was Will's voice on both the On-air Challenge and This Week's Challenge. But based on his voice on the air today, he may have had a cold Friday when they recorded the segment. Given current pandemic conditions, I hope a cold was the worst of it.
DeleteCareful, Dr. K, I don't think you're a medical doctor, making a diagnosis like that, are you? Or an acoustics or AI expert?
DeleteBut, yes, I do think that was Will on the air today, as usual.
DeleteI thought, particularly at the beginning, Will sounded as though he had a cold. I may not be that kind of doctor (I used to tell my students that if they wanted a prescription, say, for Adderall, they’d have to go somewhere else), but both my son and daughter-in-law have just tested positive (they’re “breakthrough” cases who have received the booster, and thus far symptoms are—consequently and thankfully—miid), so I feel acutely sensitive at the moment to such things.
DeleteHope they're OK, Dr. K. We're busy curtailing our travel plans for next week.
DeleteThanks, Jan. Best guess is it’s Omicron, which is less severe than Delta, and they’re maximally protected. Symptoms are mild. They were supposed to fly here today. Unfortunately, it also looks like one of our horses is about to go to its reward—here’s the vet—so I’m signing off for now. It’s been one of those days. Stay safe and well.
DeleteThere was a lot of back and forth, but i will agree that my sleepy ears mistook Will's voice in parts.
DeleteJust like clockwork. "It's not unusual"- Tom Jones.
DeleteMendo Jim:
DeleteI must admit that it brought a tear to my eye this morning when I read your diatribe post above and saw you had found the time to also include me in your weekly, mindless rant. Such recognition overwhelms me, and coming from a truly devoted Will Shortz slammer as yourself. What more can I say? I am just so grateful.
Congratulations Eco.
DeleteI am listening to -last night- the dark side of Jazz.
DeleteMendo -this is probably before your time.but he reminds me a lot of Spiro Agnew with his verbal cantations. The one i always loved was "nattering nabobs of negativity." Pricelss.
DeleteThat line was written for Agnew by William Safire.
DeleteFor more on Agnew, check out Rachel Maddow's podcast, "Bag Man". (Or, I imagine, her book of the same name,)
(Speaking of anagrams, as we often do, SPIRO AGNEW -> GROW A PENIS.)
DeleteFascinating..You can't make this stuff up.I guess that is better than grow a pair?? Rachel Maddow- Bagman.
DeleteFunnier than GROW A SPINE, which would be a more family-friendly way to convey the same message.
DeletepjbHasHeardDickCavett MentioningThe"Agnewgram",AsWellAsHavingAFieldDayGettingAnagramsFromTheName"GoreVidal"
Yea Dick Cavett-kind of fits doesn't it.I wonder if there is a clip of that?
Deleteis it weekly, mindless rant or mindless, weekly rant??
DeleteJan -enjoying Rachel's pod cast and will have to get the book. I was a junior in H.S? Age of innocence. And George, H also implicated??- who tried to get Attorney general of Maryland - to cool it. James Bell?
DeleteI was a junior in college. I wasn't aware at the time of how urgently Elliot Richardson felt he had to get Agnew out (hence no jail time plea deal), because he knew Nixon was going down, and he didn't want to face the possibility of back-to-back impeachments. Amazing that he got it done just days before he got axed in the Saturday Night Massacre.
DeleteWell he did win a Bronze star in Korea? And he did speak out about the Kent State shootings. Imagine that?
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ReplyDeleteI looked a lot of names to come up with the answer.
ReplyDeleteHm, I found a name and it matches yall's clues - but I never heard of the person. And I took an art history class, back centuries ago.
ReplyDeleteAltruism is dead.
ReplyDeleteAltruism anagrams to muralist.
DeleteI was disappointed in the way the on air puzzle was presented.
ReplyDeleteThe artist reminds me of Richmond.
ReplyDeleteThe James River flows through Richmond, VA. Diego is Spanish for James. Rivera has River in it.
DeleteVery nice.I thought Diego was Don or perhaps Dougie.
DeleteI have it. Synonyms and antonym not obvious...
ReplyDeleteTenuous.
DeleteThe synonyms are two words that are most often used in different contexts. However most of us have heard one of these words used as a roundabout way of saying the other…
ReplyDeleteDid anyone notice the artist who’s first name could be divided to form two words that are translations of one another in separate languages?
Yes. See Mendo Jim's Sun Dec 19, 09:09:00 AM PST comment.
DeleteLegoWhoThinksEco'sPuzzleIsMmmMmmGood
Lego, you could take an automated one, briefly, out of the nickname of that coach I didn't think should have moved up the coast, and. . . there you have it. Or, if you don't use the nickname, cancel taking anything out. (If my wild guess is correct, of course.) And, it's good to see eco's name pop up again.
DeleteYes. Sup, eco?
DeleteInteresting beliefs for someone from that part of the world.
ReplyDeleteWith Omicron looming, we are encouraged to eat holiday dinner outside, but temps are just too low in most places.
ReplyDeleteThanks to Unknown’s post above, I took a closer look at the artist’s first name and now notice that it can be anagrammed into two words that would be professionally familiar to someone on this blog.
ReplyDeleteSuper.
DeleteI think you're overanalyzing.
DeleteAnswer has a connection to a movie I saw the other day.
ReplyDeleteAre all of the letters of the last name used to form the antonym? I found a possible answer but it doesn't quite fit with the way I read the clue.
ReplyDeleteYes.
DeleteYes.
DeleteEco, fun puzzle!
ReplyDeleteAlong the way, I found an artist whose first name is made up of two shorter first names and whose last name anagrams to something many people would relish.
Especially in their 20's.
DeleteSeems like a nice puzzle to close out the year. I wonder why Will saved it for this weekend?
ReplyDeleteYou don't think there will be a puzzle next week? The deadline for entries is Thursday at 3:00 pm ET, as usual.
DeleteI assume Will will do his usual New Names in the News segment on air next week. Any guesses?
I'll start with Delta and Omicron, and wonder what happened to the ten letters in between?
DeleteAnd, I'll nominate Rod Ponton.
DeleteHow about Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, Giorgio Parisi?
DeleteJacob Chansley?
DeleteSDB,
DeleteJust returned from walking the dogs in cold rain. I know I live south of you, but it's still too cold. If it weren't for the pandemic, I'd have to do further south.
Wally Funk, Laura Shepard Churchley, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux, etc.
DeleteEugene Goodman.
DeleteBinaxNOW.
Delete[As regards the letters between delta and omicron, I forgot that they skipped Nu, because talking about a Nu variant as opposed to a new variant would be confusing, and Xi, to avoid casting aspersions on the Chinese premier. So, only 8 lesser known variants, I guess. Though I imagine there are some beyond Omicron.
DeleteDon't forget the VW Variant.
DeleteYeah, I think the World Health Organization might be facing the same problem the National Hurricane Center ran into, a shortage of Greek letters. Are you suggesting car marques or doubled letters in general? And will you be in charge of enforcing pronunciation? "Oy vey, I've got fau vay!"
DeleteI already am in charge of enforcing the proper pronunciation. I was considering buying a new one in 1966 and having it shipped back home free by the army. When I took a look under the hood and couldn't locate the engine I changed my mind.
DeleteMW (No, not that one.)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thestar.com/news/world/2021/11/27/fact-focus-why-who-chose-omicron-for-new-covid-variant.html
ReplyDeleteTried to substitute a word for URL but not work for me. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteFirst name to come to mind for me. I basically thought of a first name that seems to spell out two words together, then a famous artist with that name, and then the anagram worked out perfectly, too. Stay safe, everybody!
ReplyDeletepjbKnowsTheAnswer,ButHeHas"NoClue"!
DIEGO RIVERA, DIE, GO, ARRIVE
DeletepjbSaysMerryChristmasEve,Y'all!
We miss you ecoarchitect. Thank you for the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteThanks Blaine! Your clue confirmed I had the intended answer. So far, I have to say, I have never visited either destination. 😐
ReplyDeleteThere are many places that share the names of Blaine's destinations, one of which is not very specific at all. I thought I'd never visited one of the latter, but I was wrong.
DeleteUnfortunately that non-specificity still didn't "help" me. 🙄
DeleteNeat puzzle! And a refreshing break during a week of travel. Worth it for the beauty of Yosemite...
ReplyDelete(Oh, and a clue? Let's just say "two turtledoves / and a partridge in a pear tree"!)
ReplyDeleteMy reference was to this rather amazing poem from 1933: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA04/hess/RockRivera/newspapers/NewYorker_05_20_1933.html
DeleteHow did you manage to come by this amazing poem? I just about a week ago finished reading a biography of Janet Flanner, who wrote for the New Yorker the Letter From Paris under the pen name "Genêt" at the request of its founder Harold Ross. I ran into her in 1965 in the cocktail lounge of the Hotel Continental where she resided. I was only twenty and sitting at the end of the small bar sipping a Manhattan when she arrived unexpectedly just to my right. Fortunately I was fully aware of who she was. I have to admit she was completely unaware of who I was, but I forgave her without reservation.
DeleteWhat a great encounter! And I'm glad you enjoyed the poem; I believe I came across it during a trip to Mexico City a few years back.
DeleteThese coincidences, aren't they odd? and don't they make our lives worthwhile? I have always savored that unexpected encounter.
Deletegot a hell of a hock(n)ey team
ReplyDeletePaul Simon's "Papa Hobo" has the lyric: 'Detroit Detroit got a hell of a hockey team." and a famous Diego Rivera Mural < it's at the DIA>
DeleteAh, finally solved it! I had thought of the name early in my puzzling, but dismissed it for a reason that is TMI. Suddenly I couldn't NOT see it.
ReplyDeleteWassily Kandinsky was silly and kinky? Great puzzle. A lot of wordplay. Never heard of the artist, either. No hints here.
ReplyDeleteI know this artist by marriage... so to speak.
ReplyDeleteHmm, not sure I would categorize the words strictly as synonyms, but I get it.
ReplyDeleteI agree; a clever person would have composed it better.
DeleteA wise person might have merely considered it.
DeleteThere is a sense of the first word that is exactly the same as a sense of the second word.
DeleteThat's how it is with most synonyms! Maybe all synonyms?
For me, the synonyms work well, as does the antonym. It's a creative and clever offering served up on an eco platter.
DeletePaul,
DeleteI posted that above comment as a pay back to eco for his nasty back to back posts criticizing me for not being a "clever" puzzler. I was surprised no one commented on his outbursts against me personally. I am still angry that he stooped so low as to compare me to Joseph Mengele as he kept on ridiculing me due to his absurd jealousy. Then, when I had enough and countered with some of the information I discovered by checking out his pathetic web site, he accused me of "stalking him" as he slithered away in disgrace. For him to behave this way is inexcusable to me, as it is to anyone who would be low enough to dare compare me with Spiro Agnew. I did not run him off. He left of his own accord. Good riddance.
Some might consider a comparison to Spiro a compliment. Especially when you consider the term-
Deletewas written by William Saffire. Definitely an original voice. "Nattering nabobs of negativism."
Somehow i can't get Jan's anagram out of my head so when you hear the word Spiro Agnew- you know what it really means?
DeleteAw, gee, SDB, I'm sorry to hear all that. A couple of years ago, when I joined this blog(as Wordsmythe, now as Musinglink) you, Eco, and Legolambda were the bellweathers of this blog. You guys had the cleverist and most subtle clues, the best alternative puzzles and the most interesting commentary. Maybe in honor of the Yuletide season, you two oughta bury the hatchet (And I don't mean in each other's necks, either) and declare a truce, or at least a ceasefire. We puzzlers need to stick together in this age of egalitarian mass culture. One of these dreadful days, there will be only word-search puzzles, spot the difference photos, and easy lame-brain People Magazine crossword puzzles (on glossy paper!) and easy brainteasers with the answer upside down on another page! There cannot be disunity among us puzzlers as we near the brink of a crisis! We must unify! Five fingers are a hand. But five fingers united make a fist! HUELGA! HUELGA! HUELGA!
DeleteMusinglink - Thank-you for assuming the role of peacemaker.
DeleteAmen
DeleteI'm working on a puzzle using the artist's full name.
ReplyDeleteIt's gonna be a beaut.
Collaborating with jan, are you?
DeleteOMG
DeleteIf Eco has a platter then Mendo has a Crousset?
DeleteI was looking forward to responses to what I intended as a joke post above.
DeleteI was not expecting three that I have no clue as to their meanings.
I received an explanation of WW's jibe from an unexpected direction. Nope.
DeleteNow I'm waiting on Plantsmith.
Searching jan's comments this week and at the end of last week should get you there easily.
DeleteAs I posted, both my and your questions answered.
DeleteThanks, I think.
Has anybody seen 'Get Back" on the Disney channel? Each episode is well over two hours. Lots of clowining around and even some tension with George and Paul. Even with the tense scene with George, (he eventually re-joins the group), it's a lot like "Spinal Tap." Especially when they're trying to find an outdoor venue for the Beatles to perform. Someone suggests an ancient amphitheater on an island in the Mediterranean and they all discuss the pros and cons. Spinal Tap!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the artist is NOT Yoko Ono .
No. I only get Netflix now as i am on the dole. Is it on U tube? I saw the James Gordon drive by thing with Pauly.
DeleteMovie link "Dirty Dancing."
ReplyDeleteThe artist liked some callaloo, I hear, and also encountered a rocky road. That encounter was captured by the spinner of a little web.
ReplyDeleteI also came up with Sinbad, whose actual last name is Adkins which becomes "As Kind" - but the intended answer if far more elegant.
ReplyDeleteThere’s a heavy metal song that goes well with my clue above and whose 1st word in the title is apropos for this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteNevada
ReplyDeleteRobin Hound and French french fries gets you too klose for
ReplyDeleteTo those who "never heard" of this artist I say you need to get out and about more. And this is one of those rare times when I understand Blaine's clues and I deem them TMI fwiw.
ReplyDeleteBlackberry
ReplyDeleteErnie
ReplyDeleteFinally - cold enough at my local rink to run the Zamboni!
ReplyDeleteDamn! Finally cold enough here to run the street brining trucks!
Delete(Does it get cold enough in Pamplona to see people frantically sliding in the narrow streets ahead of the running of the Zambonis?)
DeleteCome on, jan, you know very well that the running of the Zambonis takes place in Sienna, Italy.
DeleteI meant Siena, Italy and apaliogize for the redundant N.
DeleteThey might take umberage at your misspelling the name of their city like that; you might get burnt.
DeleteTurns out the running of The Zamboni takes place one town north of me.
DeleteI don't think so. I would protect myself with a good bottle of Valpolicella, which is the only wine I know of that contains law enforcement. ValPOLICElla
DeleteHey, Minnesota, where I reside, is the "State of Hockey!" Thus, I must put some icing on this Zamboniness
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatHereInTheStateOfHockeyThereAreMerelyMinutesRemainingInThisPalindromicDay12/22/21
I guess ice hockey is a fine game for those who don't mind playing a sport that doesn't require balls.
DeleteNow, if that post ever gets out, I will never be allowed back in Canada, even after the pandemic is over.
DeleteSDB: How about a wine from COPpola Vineyards? And, if you extend the category to other alcoholic beverages, there's always a FUZZy navel.
DeleteLancek:
DeleteI must applaud you on the massive amount of research you have obviously done on this pertinent subject. However I do want to point out that while the Coppola Vineyards are obviously infected, they are not as yet fully penetrated with this scourge. I think it would be wise for us to keep a close eye on these infestations before it becomes completely out of control. In the mean time Charles Shaw seems to be immune. (So what, though!)
SDB burnt the Sienna again, 'tis a pity.
DeleteI clued the Zamboni because Blainesville was already teeming with Dora clues, and Dora's pal Diego was voiced by Brandon Zambrano, and I wasn't going to go anywhere near Brandon in this climate.
Ben, are you sure? I thought he was a tenor.
DeleteThat's Hamilton
DeleteSpiro Agnew was really one of a kind- often imitated but never mastered. The King of Insults. There were so many.
ReplyDeleteHere is the original version."In our society today we have an abundance of Nattering nabobs of negativism.They have formed their own 4-H club of the hopeless, hysterical, hypochondriacs of history."
I really wasn’t trying to solve the puzzle this week. When I took a second look at Blaine’s clue, the answer struck me immediately.
ReplyDeleteI was probably one of the last people to figure out the answer and submit it on time. Thank you, Curtis.
ReplyDeleteDIEGO RIVERA -> DIE, GO; ARRIVE
ReplyDelete> The artist's real name is 85 letters long.
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez
> There are many places that share the names of Blaine's destinations, one of which is not very specific at all. I thought I'd never visited one of the latter, but I was wrong.
Many San Diegos, and many Rivieras. Who knew the South Shore of Boston was The Irish Riviera?
DIEGO RIVERA —> DIE, GO + ARRIVE
ReplyDelete“No clue here”: The painting by my daughter-in-law is of artist Frida Kahlo, twice married to fellow artist Diego Rivera. The artist that Rivera himself praised was Remedios Varo (1908-63). He called her "among the most important women artists in the world." If you’re not familiar with Varo’s work, it’s worth a web search.
First hint: If you duplicate the final letter of Kahlo’s first name and rearrange, you get “afraid,” which figures prominently in one of Robert Kennedy’s favorite quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Always do what you are afraid to do” (from Emerson’s 1841 essay “Heroism”).
Second hint: “Diego” can be slightly rearranged into “id” and “ego,” two words I thought C a p would be “professionally familiar” with. Musing Link’s comment, “Super,” suggested “superego,” which completes the Freudian triumvirate, and Word Whisker’s “overanalyzing” comment indicated she got the hint as well.
To those who celebrate, Merry Christmas. And in the words of Linus (quoting Luke): “[O]n earth peace, good will toward men.”
Begin your Christmas Day a day early with us on Puzzleria!... tonight just after midnight. Santa Claus is making a Christmas Eve Eve trial run and will soon descend Puzzleria!s chimney with a bulging bagful of 23(!) puzzles gift-wrapped in mysteries inside enigmas!
ReplyDeleteOne of the cleverest elves in Santa's workshop, our friend Ecoarchitect, tinkered, toyed around and came up with nine splendidly Econfusing spoonerisms for us to play with.
Eco is also the architect of this week's "alive-on-arrival" NPR puzzle, which one of Santa's other elves has been busy "riffing-off," concocting eleven knock-offs of Eco's original.
Our other three gift-puzzles are titled:
* “Who’s that burglar on my rooftop?”
* Silver bells? Silver bullion?, and
* “Let’s sing a long singalong song”
So. tonight, don't get nestled all snug in your beds. Eschew those terpsichorean sugarplums! At Midnight PST, to your Windows fly like a flash, open your browsers, and hope they don't crash!
CogoLambda
DIEGO RIVERA => DIE, GO, ARRIVE
ReplyDeleteI had originally commented that I had solved it, and I "will grab boots, hit the road, and go see my cousin." That was quickly removed by a blog administrator. I'm curious how Blainesvillians feel--TMI or not?
In other comments more than one of us noted that while DIE and GO are synonyms, and ARRIVE is clearly a synonym of GO, I am not familiar with DIE and ARRIVE ever being used as antonyms. I suppose someone could describe a birth as an arrival, but I've never heard someone use it that way.
Well-known artist: DIEGO RIVERA → DIE = GO Antonym: ARRIVE, come alive, come to life.
ReplyDeleteDiego Rivera/Die, Go; Arrive
ReplyDeleteAdd an, "I" to the last name and you can get to the Riviera – a great place to spend a holiday.
Diego Rivera >>> die + go & arrive
ReplyDeleteOne little gripe I've got about the process of trying to come up with the answer. When I first read the puzzle, I assumed that the artist was probably a non-musical one. When I went to Wikipedia and started to type "List of Artists" in the search box, a long pull-down list appears ALL of which are musical artists. I tried selecting List of artists under the Avex Group. Nope. ALSO a list of musical artists.
ReplyDeleteIn case anyone is wondering why I posted my answer again, it is because although I hit the publish button at exactly noon it did not show. Just another blogger glitch I guess.
ReplyDeleteDIEGO RIVERA — die, go; arrive
ReplyDeleteI went down a list, and the name of Diego was the first that seemed to meet the instructions of the puzzle. I took just one more look at Andy Warhol, because it can be split into "and" and "y ," with "y" being Spanish for "and," of course. Then again, the puzzle instructions called for synonyms, not translations of each other. (And for the life of me, I couldn't get Warhol to anagram to an antonym of and.)
As I hinted in my post, Blaine's clue (San Diego; Riviera) confirmed I had the intended answer.
DIEGO RIVERA; DIE, GO, ARRIVE
ReplyDelete"MW" refers to midwife. When my children were born, my midwife spoke of their safe ARRIVAL as they said greetings to souls GOing and or DYing at the same time.
"Yes. Sup, eco." Diego means he who SUPplants. I sup_plants in smoothies all the time. ;-)
"Nevada" evokes the geology of the Basin and Range described by John McPhee as "an army of caterpillars marching northward from MEXICO" as well as RIVERA's wife Frida Kahlo's eyebrows.
"eco platter" refers to Platter and Honey, a San DIEGO based company.
Elegant puzzle, eco! (The Nevada ec(h)o × 3 is a tribute to you and your puzzle!)
"Blackberry" = Mûre evoking the Murals of RIVERA.
My alternate puzzle: FREDERIC REMINGTON >>> FRED, ERIC and MENTORING
My clues (above) of “close out” and “saved” and heavy metal song (by Metallica) called “Enter Sandman” were referencing the greatest baseball relief pitcher - Mariano Rivera.
ReplyDeleteDIEGO RIVERA --> DIE, GO, ARRIVE. My hint: "With Omicron looming, we are encouraged to eat holiday dinner outside, but temps are just too low in most places."
ReplyDeleteEating dinner "al fresco" this time of year would cause many of us to freeze ("frieze"). Fresco and frieze are associated with mural painting, the type of art for which Rivera is best known.
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Diego Rivera/die go arrive. I liked this puzzle! I don't think I left a response when I solved it. But, Blaine's clues felt like a dead giveaway right after I got it.
ReplyDeleteDiego Rivera: Die, go vs arrive. I get how die and go are synonyms in certain usages. However, I can also see them as antonyms, in the sense of something that dies stops going. It's a fun puzzle in the sense that the synonyms don't immediately jump out.
ReplyDeleteDiego Rivera--Die,Go, Arrive.
ReplyDelete"Dirty Dancing" refers to mural -"Man at the crossroads" which featured a decadent Capitalist couple dancing to decadent jazz in one panel, before it was destroyed by Mr. Rockefeller in the lobby of Rockefeller center.
Diego Rivera->die, go, arrive
ReplyDeleteMy comment that "I looked at lot of names to come up with the answer." refers the the fact that he has 16 names, if you count "de la". Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez. But his friends call him Diego Rivera. Synonym is a little tenuous, but I went with it.
ReplyDeleteOn die and arrive being antonyms, many birth announcements begin, ``We are pleased to announce the arrival of ...'' So, as with many others above, I was content with die and arrive as antonyms.
ReplyDeleteDie, go, ... we have too many euphemisms for death. Would Blaine have accepted someone claiming to take a pass on the puzzle this week?
ReplyDeleteDIEGO RIVERA; DIE, GO, ARRIVE
ReplyDeleteI liked the puzzle this week. Tip of the hat to Eco!
I didn't see any real problem with the puzzle, and I even consider ARRIVE to be an acceptable antonym for DIE -- especially this week, when we celebrate the arrival of the second daughter of a dear colleague. (Welcome, Ellison!)
I clued the Zamboni because Blainesville was already teeming with Dora clues, and Dora's pal Diego was voiced by Brandon Zambrano.
And I wasn't going to go anywhere near Brandon in this climate.
Diego Rivera; diego --> die, go; rivera --> arrive
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “Perhaps it’s my ignorance that’s showing, but I think Will has strayed too far down in the woods when he selected this as a solve-at-home puzzle. Having gotten that off my chest, the artist’s first name anagrams to an animal.” Diego anagrams to dogie, a motherless calf.
I also got DIEGO RIVERA >>>>>>> DIE GO ARRIVE (RIVERA ANAGRAM)
ReplyDeleteShe was Frida Kahlo and he was free to be promiscuous.
DeleteBy the way, I am ever so grateful to have a playpen of similarly maniacal word friends here, so I'll take year's end to say thank you all!
ReplyDeleteSomeone who I might otherwise respect posted on social media that DELTA OMICRON anagram to MEDIA CONTROL!
Only in Blainesville can I safely reply that, while true, DELTA OMICRON also anagrams to both DIALECT MORON and LOCATE NIMROD....
Much better than Moronic.
DeleteI wrote "The artist liked some callaloo, I hear, and also encountered a rocky road. That encounter was captured by the spinner of a little web."
ReplyDelete"Some callaloo, I hear" refers to the elision of a syllable in the word "callaloo," resulting in "calloo," which sounds almost like Kahlo, as in Frida (whom Diego Rivera liked).
Rivera's encounter with a rocky road refers to Nelson Rockefeller's destruction of his fresco, "Man at the Crossroads" (also noted by Plantsmith, above).
The capturing of that encounter by the spinner of a little web refers to E. B. White's poem about the fate of that fresco, "I Paint What I See: A Ballad of Artistic Integrity," which appeared in The New Yorker on May 20, 1933.
E. B. White also wrote Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, so I referred to him as a spinner of a little web.
Finally, in a separate post, I simply said "Ernie." Ernie's friend, Bert, has a unibrow, which Frida Kahlo also, famously, had, thus linking Diego Rivera with Ernie.
A "rocky road?" Metaphorically, perhaps, but this New Yorker is obliged to remind that Rivera's Fallen Fresco was installed at Rockefeller Center, an automobile-free plaza!
DeleteThanks for poem reference. "I paint what i see."
DeleteMissing my kids in Harlem. Blue Xmas for me as for many.
I am missing Blaine's annual holiday puzzle and video. It has become a tradition. Will there be one this year, Blaine?
ReplyDeleteLegoWhoNotesThatInTheTalentedHandsOfBlaine"HomeMovies"BecomeAnArtForm!
Sorry, the video and puzzle is still baking in the oven. Hopefully it will arrive soon (and not go, or die). 😀
DeleteThanks, Blaine. Your videos are highly anticipated by me (and others, I am sure). True holiday highlights!
DeleteLegoWhoAppreciatesBlaineOurBaker
I am assuming, Blaine, that until you post your video, we are Frida watch other things?
DeleteBen, did you miss my Thursday post reply to Cap? LOL Have a happy holiday.
DeleteSpeaking of painters: What did one pointillist say to another?
ReplyDeleteQue Seurat, Seurat?
{With thanks to a Jeopardy contestant's mother.}
Merry Christmas!
I’ll be there, at 7, on the dot?
ReplyDeleteWhat's your point?
DeleteSomething odd going on with Blogger. I posted a reply to Word Woman's pointillist joke, and got notified of it via email, but nothing appeared on the blog. So, I posted it again, got the email notification again, but still nothing on the blog. Any ideas?
ReplyDeleteI noted that as well, searched the blog, thinking it was misposted somewhere. Very bizarre.
DeleteTwo of my posts also disappeared. Maybe Blaine is just doing some clean-up? Or maybe just a Blogger hiccup?
Ah,2021, the year I learned the Greek alphabet. I wish we could just jump to Omega and be done.
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ReplyDeleteThis week's challenge comes from listener Brent McKay, of Flagstaff, Ariz. Name a famous singer — first and last names. Each name has two syllables. Change the first vowel sound in the first name and the last vowel sound in the last name. In each case, phonetically, you'll name part of the human body. Who's the singer?
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