David Zinn is a street artist and illustrator from Ann Arbor, Michigan. After college, he freelanced for a variety of commercial clients, which kept him busy, but kept him inside. One beautiful sunny day, Zinn decided to go outside with the box of chalk a friend bought him as a joke. Liking what he created, he then began drawing all over town, creating what would quickly become well-known sidewalk creatures, like Sluggo the green monster, Phil the flying pig, and Louise the prickly porcupine. Most of his creatures appear on the sidewalks of Michigan, but because of the internet and social media, Zinn and his crazy characters are now known all over the world.

source: CGTN America
video source: David Zinn: Street art that washes away in the rain – BBC News, BBC News

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There’s a song in Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper 

An Italian musician claims that there is a song encoded in the ‘Last Supper’. By drawing the five lines of a musical staff across the painting, the loaves of bread on the table and the hands of Jesus and of the Apostles each represent a musical note. If you play the notes it sounds like a requiem, and it’s like a soundtrack that emphasizes the passion of Jesus.

Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Café Terrace at Night’ refers to da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’

There are 12 patrons at the café sitting just like the Apostles and the waiter in the middle looks somewhat like how Jesus is traditionally depicted with his long hair. There’s also a subtle cross image right behind the server in the windowpane. A figure is departing in the shadows referring to Judas who is about to betray Jesus.

Michelangelo’s ‘Creation of Adam’ has a reference to the human body

Michelangelo was not only a very talented artist creating masterpieces but he was also interested in the human body. He began dissecting corpses when he was still a teenager so that he could understand how people are put together. In the painting which is on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel God is surrounded by a red cloak shaped like an anatomically correct image of the human brain showing Michelangelo’s amazing expertise in the field. He even managed to depict some of the more complex brain parts, like the cerebellum and the pituitary gland. The figure beneath God, wearing a green scarf, is an almost perfect representation of the vertebral artery.

The ‘Mona Lisa’ hides letters and numbers

When the painting was viewed under a microscope the letters LV were visible in one of her eyes, and there were a few less-decipherable letters there as well. On the arch in the background number 72 is visible.  We don’t know what these symbols mean. LV could stand for Leonardo Da Vinci, but what does 72 mean? It’s still a mystery.

In Jan van Eyck’s ‘The Arnolfini Portrait’ there is a small version of its creator

We can see the self-portrait in the mirror. In the reflection, there are two figures visible but they are discernible only with a magnifying glass. Many people think the one with his arm raised as if in greeting is van Eyck, because of the artist’s signature which translates to “Jan van Eyck was here 1434” According to that the man in the mirror might as well be van Eyck himself.

Pieter Bruegel’s ’Netherlandish Proverbs’ hides more than a hundred proverbs

If you look at the picture it’s a busy Dutch street for the first sight. But it’s also a collection of the images of well-known proverbs like running like your butt’s on fire, the blind leading the blind, there’s always a bigger fish, to get the world in the palm of your hand, armed to the teeth and hitting your head against the wall.

Caravaggio self-portrait in his Bacchus picture

The painting shows the Roman god Bacchus drinking a glass of wine. The whole setting looks quite ordinary but a group of experts managed to see something peculiar inside the carafe of wine in the bottom left corner. Caravaggio made a portrait of himself inside the bottle. The portrait shows him at the age of 25, with dark curly hair, holding a paintbrush and working at an easel.

A mystery man in Picasso’s ’Blue Room’

The ’Blue Room’ is regarded as one of Picasso’s earliest masterpieces. It is one of the melancholy scenes dominated by varying shades of blue. Underneath the painted surface there’s a hidden portrait of a man wearing a bow tie, resting his chin on his hand. It’s not known who the mystery man is, but it’s definitely not a portrait of Picasso himself.

Botticelli’s’Primavera’ is a thorough collection of plants

Apart from the centre figures of mythological creatures including Venus, Mercury, and the Three Graces, there’s incredible attention to detail in the garden background. The painting depicts at least 500 species of plants, all of which have been identified by botanists, and includes some 190 separate kinds of flowers.

There’s a woman’s face in Picasso’s ’Old Guitarist’

Money was tight in Picasso’s Blue Period from 1901 through 1904, so the artist often reused his supplies. ’The Old Guitarist’ was painted over a previous work. If you look closely at the man’s neck, you can see the outline of a woman’s face and figure through the fading blue paints.

Beginnings

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico. She was the 3rd of four daughters born to her parents, photographer Guillermo Kahlo and Matilde Calderón y González. Originally from Germany, Guillermo immigrated to Mexico in 1891.

Illness and Education

Frida contracted polio aged 6 which affected her right leg, its growth became stunted. This led to social isolation and she developed an introverted personality. After troubled early schooling – she was often bullied – she was enrolled in the prestigious National Preparatory School in Mexico City with the hopes of becoming a doctor but with no aspirations to be an artist yet. She was one of only 35 girls out of 2,000 pupils there.

She became a member of a political group with socialist-nationalist ideas who devoted themselves intensively to literature. Thanks to the Mural Movement in Mexico in which murals were painted on public buildings she met the famous mural artist Diego Rivera who was later to become her husband.

She changed her date of birth to coincide with the 1910 Mexican Revolution which she adored.

She enjoyed art from an early age and learnt to draw from her father’s friend, printmaker Fernando Fernández and filled several notebooks with sketches.

The Accident

In 1925 she had an accident in a bus which collided with a tram  – a handrail impaled her pelvis and she had broken ribs and legs – leaving her emotionally and physically scarred for life. Her physical injuries were life-threatening, and she was lucky to survive. She required months of hospital recovery.

In 1926, during her convalescence, she painted her first self-portrait, the beginning of a long series in which she charted the events of her life and her emotional reactions to them.

Marriage

In 1928 a mutual friend introduced Rivera again to Frida, shortly after the break-up of his marriage. Sparks evidently flew and they were married the next March. Her father disapproved but eventually gave his blessing to her marrying ‘this elephant’, because he was wealthy enough to pay for her many surgeries her life would require. Diego was a large and not conventionally attractive man, but his personality was appealing because of his non-macho sensitive side in contrast to the Mexican standard. Quoting Frida Kahlo: “I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down… The other accident is Diego.” Diego was twenty years her senior and she called him her baby.

Mexico to America: Artistic Inspiration

Owing to the Mexican regime, times were tough for leftist thinkers – so Diego did not seem to have a bright future in Mexico, but his reputation had proceeded him to the USA which was where the couple went.

1931 found them in New York for a retrospective exhibition of Modern Art. Frida at the time was regarded as nothing more than Diego’s charming wife.

During a commission Diego painted in Detroit, Frida suffered a miscarriage and while recovering she painted a watershed piece – Miscarriage in Detroit – which was the start of the starkly honest self- portraits, she became known for. The size was small and known as retablos based on religious iconography found in Mexican churches. Except inside was not a saint but Frida herself. Diego described her work as having no precedent in the history of art.

After Detroit, a mural commission by the Capitalist Rockefeller Centre brought them to New York where a scandal ensued over Diego’s refusal to remove a Communist figure he had inserted. The mural was eventually destroyed by a patron.

Troubled Relationship and Triumphant Shows         

By 1935 they had returned to Mexico where Diego cut Frida to the quick by having an affair with her younger sister Cristina. In a reaction, Frida embarked on her own series of affairs which was a pattern that lasted their lifetime. Notably, the affair was with Leon Trotsky that time who was given asylum by the Mexican government after a petition by the couple, as he fled from Stalin’s clutches.

The visiting French Surrealist André Breton also became infatuated with not only the alluring Frida – though she rejected his advances -, but her art, namely her most ‘Surrealist’ painting What the Water Gave Me and initiated her first major exhibition in New York at the Julian Levy Gallery in 1938. She sold half her paintings and Breton promised to follow it up with a show in Paris, but he obviously didn’t bother to keep to his promise. Another Surrealist Marcel Duchamp came to her rescue, and the show opened six weeks later than scheduled.

The experience left her with a rather bitter taste in her mouth and eventually, she renounced Surrealism as a bunch of lunatics and disassociated her own art from it.

1940 began with the couple’s divorce under mysterious circumstances. The period was an emotionally torn but a productive episode for her – she painted Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair in a defiant response to Diego’s request for a divorce, in which she cut off her hair in self-punishment, perhaps for her failings.

Reunion and Recognition

The first assassination attempt on Trotsky’s life, led Rivera to move to San Francisco prudently avoiding trouble. Frida followed him there and they soon remarried.

From 1944 onwards, the financial support and protection offered by Diego became invaluable since her deteriorating health required various surgeries which depleted her own unstable wealth. Her spine needed to be re-alignedand her leg also needed treatment, though some question whether she went to extreme lengths in pursuing multiple surgeries to distract Diego from his affairs. A stark painting from this time is The Broken Column which poignantly shows her physical and spiritual suffering like Christ, with a loincloth concealing her pelvic region suggesting her spirit was reaching for a higher realm than her physical reality. Physically she must have felt like she was disintegrating and becoming ever more fragile – this work has been referred to as Magic Realism, a popular movement at the time with writers like Gabriel García Márquez.

“Being the wife of Diego is the most marvellous thing in the world…. I let him play matrimony with other women. Diego is not anybody’s husband and never will be, but he is a great comrade.”

The war years were also spent together in a place built by the couple in Mexico called Anahuacalli which contained his collection of pre-Columbian idols and gave them a grounding they referred to as the ‘House of the Gods’. She painted a spiritually harmonious and celebrated picture calledRoots about this.

In 1946 her reputation was continually growing. She was invited to exhibit in Boston, was awarded a prize and began teaching at La Esmeralda Art School in Mexico. Her Communist leanings also reached a fever pitch, though Diego had been expelled from the party for his associations with Trotsky.

Deterioration

By 1953, the combinatorial effects of pain, pain-killing drugs, and natural decline warped her vision and coordination so much that she was unable to paint well. However, her first solo exhibition was offered to her on home soil in Mexico and, against her doctor’s advice, she attended. She had gangrene in her leg and was transported by ambulance and installed as almost a piece of live art herself in a bed at the show which was a triumph.

Shortly after the leg had to be amputated to the knee and this blow left her psychologically damaged, although she learnt to walk again with the help of a prosthetic limb and she even danced at some parties. The end when it came was in her sleep after writing in her diary –“’I hope the end is joyful – and I hope never to come back – Frida.” Officially recorded as an embolism, many believed it to be suicide.  She was an unforgettable personality who kept dancing through her life like a ballerina in a storm.

1. THE LOUVRE

The Louvre is not only one of the world’s largest art museums, but it’s also one of Paris’ most iconic historic monuments. The museum offers free online tours of some of its most important and popular exhibits, such as its Egyptian Antiquities. You can take a 360-degree look at the museum, and click around the rare artifacts to get additional information on their histories.

2. SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

While the architecture of the Guggenheim’s building itself, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is quite impressive, you don’t have to visit the Big Apple to get an up-close view of some of the priceless pieces of artwork inside. The museum makes some of its collections and exhibits available online for people and students who want to get a taste of what the museum can offer, including works from Franz Marc, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, and Jeff Koons.

3. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

Founded in 1937, National Gallery of Art is free and open to the general public. For those who aren’t in Washington D.C., it also provides virtual tours of its gallery and exhibits, including “Van Gogh’s: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam” and “Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory.”

4. BRITISH MUSEUM

With a collection that totals more than eight million objects, London’s British Museum makes some of its pieces viewable online, including “Kanga: Textiles From Africa” and “Objects From The Roman Cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.” The museum also teamed up with the Google Cultural Institute to offer virtual tours using Google Street View technology.

5. SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Washington D.C.’s National Museum of Natural History, one of the most visited museums in the world, offers a peek at its wonderful treasures with an online virtual tour of the entire grounds. Viewers are welcomed into its rotunda and are greeted with a comprehensive room-by-room, 360-degree walking tour of all its exceptional exhibits, including the Hall of Mammals, Insect Zoo, and Dinosaurs and Hall of Paleobiology.  

6. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

The Met is home to over two million works of fine art, but you don’t have to be in New York City to enjoy them. The museum’s website features an online collection and virtual tours of some of its most impressive pieces, including works from Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, and Giotto di Bondone. In addition, The Met also works with the Google Cultural Institute to make even more artwork (that’s not featured in its own online collection) available for view.

7. DALÍ THEATRE-MUSEUM

Located in the town of Figueres in Catalonia, Spain, the Dalí Theatre-Museum is completely dedicated to the artwork of Salvador Dalí. It features many rooms and exhibits surrounding every era of Dalí’s life and career, and the artist himself is buried here. The museum offers virtual tours of the grounds and a few exhibits, such as the surreal display of Mae West’s Face.

8. NASA

NASA offers free virtual tours of its Space Center in Houston, with a wise-cracking animated robot named “Audima” as your tour guide.

9. VATICAN MUSEUMS

The Vatican Museums feature an extensive collection of important art and classical sculptures curated by the Popes over many centuries. You can take a virtual tour of the museum grounds and iconic exhibits, including Michelangelo’s ceiling of The Sistine Chapel.

10. NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM

The mission statement of the National Women’s History Museum in Alexandria, Virginia is to educate, inspire, empower, and shape the future “by integrating women’s distinctive history and culture in the United States.” Part of that mission is delivered through well-curated online exhibits, including exhibits surrounding women in World War II and the rights of women throughout American history. 

11. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

The National Museum of the United States Air Force is the official museum of the United States Air Force and centered on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. It houses a wide array of military weapons and aircrafts, including the presidential airplanes of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon. The museum also offers free virtual tours of its entire grounds, such as decommissioned aircrafts from World War II, Vietnam, and the Korean War.

12. GOOGLE ART PROJECT

To help its users discover and view important artworks online in high resolution and detail, Google partnered with more than 60 museums and galleries from around the world to archive and document priceless pieces of art and to provide virtual tours of museums using Google Street View technology. The Google Art Project features fine art from the White House, the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar, and even São Paulo street art from Brazil. Check out a complete list of museums you can visit online through the Google Art Project and the Google Cultural Institute.

source: mentalfloss

Art words. Can you pair up the words with the definitions?

Key

1. d.

2. e.

3. a.

4. c.

5. b.

To clarify, the film, directed by Kristóf Deák, was not nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar; that category, which was won last year by the Hungarian film Son of Saul, is reserved for feature-length films. That does not, however, take anything away from the enormity of Deák’s achievement.

Sing has already had vast international success before its nomination last month in the Live Action Short Film category: the film won the Grand Prix prize at the Short Shorts Film Festival in Tokyo, the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Kids category, and the Adult Jury Prize in the Live-action Short Film category at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.

The film, which is 25 minutes long, takes place in Budapest in 1991. According to the film’s director, it is inspired by a true story, and “follows an award-winning school choir, their charming teacher and the new girl in class whose arrival starts a series of events that might expose the dark truth behind their fame.” The film stars two child actors, Dorka Gáspárfalvi and Dorottya Hais, while the teacher is played by Zsófia Szamosi, who has a prominent role in the new, warmly received Hungarian Psycho-Thriller Strangled (A Martfűi Rém), playing the part of the wrongly convicted man’s sister.

The other nominees in the Live Action Short Film are the Spanish film Timecode; Danish film Silent Nights; Ennemis Intérieurs (Enemies Within), from France; and La Femme et le TGV, from Switzerland.

Sing is the second Hungarian live-action short film only to receive an Oscar nomination; the first was 1963’s Concert, directed by István Szabó, who would go on to direct Mephisto, Hungary’s first Foreign Language Film Oscar winner. 

British artist Taylor creates underwater living installations, offering viewers mysterious, ephemeral encounters and fleeting glimmers of another world where art develops from the effects of nature on the efforts of man.

Museo Atlantico is a unique museum featuring a series of sculptural installations 12m beneath the ocean’s surface.

It is accessible to snorkelers, divers and observers through glass bottom boats, and is due to be completed by December 2016. A total of 10 galleries are expected to be ready by year-end.

The project is designed to create a large-scale artificial reef that the local fish species and marine biomass can go on to inhabit and feed off of.

The concrete figures represent the desperate refugees, selfie-taking tourists and a hybrid of flora and humans that will be transformed over time and indoctrinated into the Lanzarote underwater ‘society’ as do people above on land.

This is the first of its kind in Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, and is expected to stand the test of time to last hundreds of years. But interestingly, as the local marine life adopts the artificial reef as their own, the characteristics of the sculptures themselves will change.

Of the current lot that has already been placed at the bottom of the ocean, the piece called The Raft of Lampedusa — a sculpted boat carrying 13 refugees — is the most striking. According to The Guardian, the artwork is a modern take on Géricault’s 1818 painting The Raft of the Medusa.

According to the sculptor’s website, “by situating his sculptures in clear, shallow, barren areas, Taylor not only replicates the conditions necessary to stimulate coral growth but ensures divers, snorkelers and those aboard glass bottom boats the opportunity to view his works.”

The first phase of the underwater museum is expected to be open to the public at the end of February; the new galleries will be added all through the year.

Can you answer the questions based on the text and the video?

1. Where is Europe’s first underwater museum situated?

2. What material are the sculptures made of?

3. Who can see the sculptures?

4. Where are the sculptures placed?

5. Who do the concrete figures represent?

Answers

1. It is situated just off the coast of Lanzarote, Canary Island, Spain.

2. They are made of concrete.

3. Snorkelers, divers, observers through glass-bottom boats.

4. They are 12m beneath the ocean’s surface in shallow, barren places.

5. They represent desperate refugees, selfie-taking tourists and a hybrid of flora and humans. 

class clown

meaning:a pupil who often makes jokes or pokes fun
magyarul:az osztály bohóca
example:I remember Tom, he was the class clown. – Emlékszem Tomra, ő volt az osztály bohóca.

to make a clown of yourself

meaning:to make yourself appear foolish or stupid
magyarul:bohócot csinál magából
example:After drinking too much, Rodger made a clown of himself at the party.  – Rodger bohócot csinált magából, miután túl sokat ivott a buliban.

museum piece

meaning:something that is very old-fashioned and should no longer be used
magyarul:múzeumi darab
example:This motorbike is a museum piece. I’m surprised it still works. – Ez a motor múzeumi darab. Meglep, hogy még működik.

The show must go on.

meaning:an event or activity must continue despite problems or difficulties
magyarul:a show nem állhat meg
example:I have a bad cold but I need to go to work. The show must go on. – Csúnyán megfáztam, de be kell mennem dolgozni. A show nem állhat meg.

to steal the show

meaning:to be more outstanding than anyone or anything else
magyarul:minden babért learat
example:The talented guitarist stole the show, the rest of the band were hardly worth mentioning. – A tehetséges gitáros aratta le a babérokat, a zenekar többi tagja nem volt említésre méltó.

blockbuster

meaning:a movie that is popular and makes a lot of money
magyarul:kasszasiker
example:All of the Star Wars films were blockbusters. – Mindegyik Csillagok háborúja film kasszasiker volt.

to take center stage

meaning:to be the center of interest or attention
magyarul:a középpontba kerülni
example:The election campaign took centre stage after the President resigned. – A választási kampány került a középpontba, miután az elnök lemondott.

to star in something

meaning:to play a part in a movie or a play
magyarul:filmben vagy színdarabban játszani
example:Joe starred in 5 comedies when he was young. Then he decided to give up acting. – Joe öt vígjátékban játszott fiatalkorában, majd úgy döntött, abbahagyja a színjátszást.

and all that jazz

meaning:and such similar things
magyarul:és hasonlók
example:Tina loves hiking, rock climbing, and all that jazz. – Tina szeret túrázni, sziklát mászni, meg más hasonló dolgokat.

to face the music

meaning:you have to accept the negative consequences of your actions
magyarul:szembenézni a következményekkel
example:After they found the CCTV recording, Lou had no choice but face the music. – Miután megtalálták a térfigyelő kamera felvételeit, Lou nem tehetett mást, mint hogy szembenéz a következményekkel.

for a song

meaning:you buy or sell something very cheaply
magyarul:bagóért
example:Sally sold her grandmother’s house for a song. – Sally bagóért adta el a nagymamája házát.

It takes two to tango.

meaning:if two people are involved in a bad situation, both must be responsible
magyarul:Kettőn áll a vásár.
example:Don’t blame Jack for your hangover. It takes two to tango. – Ne Jacket hibáztasd azért, mert másnapos vagy. Kettőn áll a vásár.

class clown
meaning: a pupil who often makes jokes or pokes fun
magyarul: az osztály bohóca
example: I remember Tom, he was the class clown. – Emlékszem Tomra, ő volt az osztály bohóca.

to make a clown of yourself
meaning: to make yourself appear foolish or stupid
magyarul: bohócot csinál magából
example: After drinking too much, Rodger made a clown of himself at the party.  – Rodger bohócot csinált magából, miután túl sokat ivott a buliban.

museum piece
meaning: something that is very old-fashioned and should no longer be used
magyarul: múzeumi darab
example: This motorbike is a museum piece. I’m surprised it still works. – Ez a motor múzeumi darab. Meglep, hogy még működik.

The show must go on.
meaning: an event or activity must continue despite problems or difficulties
magyarul: a show nem állhat meg
example: I have a bad cold but I need to go to work. The show must go on. – Csúnyán megfáztam, de be kell mennem dolgozni. A show nem állhat meg.

to steal the show
meaning: to be more outstanding than anyone or anything else
magyarul: minden babért learat
example: The talented guitarist stole the show, the rest of the band were hardly worth mentioning. – A tehetséges gitáros aratta le a babérokat, a zenekar többi tagja nem volt említésre méltó.

blockbuster
meaning: a movie that is popular and makes a lot of money
magyarul: kasszasiker
example: All of the Star Wars films were blockbusters. – Mindegyik Csillagok háborúja film kasszasiker volt. 

to take center stage
meaning: to be the center of interest or attention
magyarul: a középpontba kerülni
example: The election campaign took centre stage after the President resigned. – A választási kampány került a középpontba, miután az elnök lemondott. 

to star in something
meaning: to play a part in a movie or a play
magyarul: filmben vagy színdarabban játszani
example: Joe starred in 5 comedies when he was young. Then he decided to give up acting. – Joe öt vígjátékban játszott fiatalkorában, majd úgy döntött, abbahagyja a színjátszást.

and all that jazz
meaning: and such similar things
magyarul: és hasonlók
example: Tina loves hiking, rock climbing, and all that jazz. – Tina szeret túrázni, sziklát mászni, meg más hasonló dolgokat. 

to face the music
meaning: you have to accept the negative consequences of your actions
magyarul: szembenézni a következményekkel
example: After they found the CCTV recording, Lou had no choice but face the music. – Miután megtalálták a térfigyelő kamera felvételeit, Lounak nem tehetett mást, mint hogy szembenéz a következményekkel.

for a song
meaning: you buy or sell something very cheaply
magyarul: bagóért
example: Sally sold her grandmother’s house for a song. – Sally bagóért adta el a nagymamája házát.

It takes two to tango.
meaning: if two people are involved in a bad situation, both must be responsible
magyarul: Kettőn áll a vásár.
example: Don’t blame Jack for your hangover. It takes two to tango. – Ne Jacket hibáztasd azért, mert másnapos vagy. Kettőn áll a vásár.

Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words from the table. 

1. He’s a coward. He sneaked off instead of ……………….. the music.

2. Rob was in debt and had to sell his car for a ……………….. .

3. My son is a ……………….. clown. I hope he won’t be expelled.

4. The unknown French director ……………….. the show at the festival.

5. I found this ……………….. piece in a charity shop. It’s old but in working order.

6. The prospective buyers are here and we have no time to lose. The show must ……………….. .

7. Jim ……………….. a clown of himself in front of his colleagues at the Christmas party.

8. The film turned out to be a ……………….. . The director was right.

9. Let’s buy some craft supplies: cardboard, beads, glue, ribbons, and all that ……………….. .

10. The question of refugees took center ……………….. at the meeting.

11. It’s not all my fault, you know. It ……………….. two to tango.

12. No, Al Pacino didn’t ……………….. in E.T.

answers: 1-facing 2-song 3-class 4-stole 5-museum 6-go on 7-made 8-blockbuster 9-jazz 10-stage 11-takes 12-star