crossword #3

axilla- the technical term for the armpit.

the 'M' in M. Night Shyamalan stands for Manoj.

Agandar- the Hank Azaria character in the movie The Birdcage, which apparently is the highest-grossing LGBT film of all time.

casaba- a type of melon.

tasso- a spicy Cajun ham.

Yser- a river in northern France and Belgium.

paronym- the word meaning two words that sound alike, and have different meanings, but are not spelled/pronounced exactly alike (homonyms). e.g., deprecate and depreciate are paronyms.

Sue Ane Langdon- one of those hot ditzy blonde starlets of the late '50s and early '60s.

Light It Up- a 1999 flop starring Usher, a kinda gritty story about teenagers in inner city Queens.

Alan Ruck- the actor who portrayed Cameron Frye in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

If I Ran the Circus- a 1956 Dr. Seuss book, one of his lesser known works, but still dealing in the common Seuss theme of "cumulative fantasy leading to excess."

Towa Tei- DJ most famous for his hit with Deee-lite, Groove is in the Heart.

SFMOMA- the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (not directly related to MOMA.)

Toshiba- a Japanese multinational conglomerate… they make digital rice cookers, they're the world's 5th largest PC producer, they're beginning to get involved in nuclear energy, they own the top video screen on One Times Square… the whole wikipedia article on them reads like a perfect, archetypal example of an enigmatic and megapowerful corporation.

yoni- the word used to refer to the vagina, in the Kama Sutra.

Sidney Lumet- legendary director- 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network; crazily prolific- more than one movie a year on average, since 1957. Fascinating entry, deserves to be read and studied more thoroughly.