The Facts: Exegesis (5%)Identify and define 20 total “unknowns” in your script including at least one item from each of the following categories:-- geographic settings, locations, buildings, streets--cultural references: furniture, clothing, styles of architecture and music--real people, names, and pronunciation--archaic or foreign words and phrases--idiomatic language (slang)
1. Yarzheit- A candle that is lit in memory of the dead in the Jewish faith
2. goyische-Hebrew/Yiddish term for someone/thing which is not Jewish.
From:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=goyische
3. La Cage- La Cage aux Folles is a 1973 French farce play by Jean Poiret. It was later adapted into a musicial version and two feature films La Cage aux Folles (film) and The Birdcage.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cag e_aux_Folles_%28play%29
4. Weehawken- A township in New Jersey
5. Acolytes-an acolyte is anyone who performs ceremonial duties such as lighting altar candles. In other Christian Churches, the term is more specifically used for one who wishes to attain clergyhood.
From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolyte
6. Emma Goldman- was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. She was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics.[1]
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman
7. sibilant- Of, characterized by, or producing a hissing sound like that of (s) or (sh)
from:http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sibilant
8. "applying the face"- a man applying cosmetics to appear like a woman.
9. La Grande Geste- Littearly "The great gesture"
10. Kaposi's sarcomas-is a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8), also known as Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). It was originally described by Moritz Kaposi, a Hungarian dermatologist practicing at the University of Vienna in 1872.[1] It became more widely known as one of the AIDS defining illnesses in the 1980s.
From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi's_sarcoma
11. lymphadenopathy-Lymphadenopathy is a term meaning "disease of the lymph nodes." It is, however, almost synonymously used with "swollen/enlarged lymph nodes".
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphadenopathy
12. AZT- or azidothymidine (AZT) (also called ZDV) is an antiretroviral drug, the first approved for treatment of HIV. It is also sold under the names Retrovir and Retrovis, and as an ingredient in Combivir, Epzicom and Trizivir. It is an analog of thymidine.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZT
There is much controversy over wether this drug helps or harms it's patients.
13. In Vitro- (Latin: within the glass) refers to the technique of performing a given experiment in a controlled environment outside of a living organism; for example in a test tube. In vitro fertilization is a well-known example of this.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro
14. bayeux tapestry- The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft) long embroidered cloth which explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. The Tapestry is annotated in Latin. It is presently exhibited in a special museum in Bayeux, Normandy, France.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry
15. Walter Winchell-(April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was an American newspaper and radio commentator. He invented the gossip column while at the New York Evening Graphic. He broke the journalistic taboo against exposing the private lives of public figures, permanently altering the shape of journalism and celebrity. He was a top gossip reporter, whose newspaper column and radio show could "make" or "break" a celebrity.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell
16. Belle Reeve- A character from "A Streetcar Named Desire".
17. Pauvre- In French, poor.
18. "ce n'est pas pour la joyeux noel et la bonne annee"- In English: this is not the joyous Christmas and Happy New Year
19. Bolshevik- originally also[1] Bolshevists[2] (Russian: Большевик, Большевист (singular) Russian pronunciation: [bəlʲʂɨˈvʲik], derived from bolshe, "more") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction[3] at the Second Party Congress in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[4] The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Soviet Union.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik
20. incipience- beginning to exist or to be apparent; "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"; "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency"
From: http://www.wordreference.com/definition/incipience
