![]() “Trompe l’oeil” is a technique in art that creates the optical illusion that a drawn object exists in three dimensions. 47 Art technique that’s French for “fools the eye” : TROMPE L’OEIL Short Message Service (SMS) is the name for the text messaging service that many of us still use on our cell phones to contact friends and family. The brand name was created by Henri-Louis Pernod in the late 1700s when he opened an absinthe distillery in Switzerland. The drink usually called just “Pernod” is a French beverage more correctly called “Pernod Anise”. The part of Lincoln “Linc” Hayes was played by Omar Epps, Claire Danes played Julie Barnes and Giovanni Ribisi played Peter Cochran. The 1999 movie “The Mod Squad” was an adaptation of the seventies television show of the same name. Leigh’s third husband was the actor Tony Curtis, and their daughter is the lovely Jamie Lee Curtis. My guess is that the actress Janet Leigh’s most remembered performance is as the woman who gets killed in the shower in the Hitchcock classic “Psycho”. He founded the Iams company, now part of Procter & Gamble, in 1946. ![]() He felt that household pets were suffering somewhat by being fed a diet of table scraps, so he developed a dry dog food that he felt was more nutritious and suitable for pet dogs. Iams dog food was introduced by animal nutritionist Paul Iams. Tony Rodriguez on “NYPD Blue” and Joseph Adama on “Caprica”. 32 Actor Morales : ESAIĪctor Esai Morales is best known in the world of film for the 1987 movie “La Bamba”, which depicted the life of Ritchie Valens and his half-brother Bob Morales (played by Esai). The town of Vail, Colorado was established four years later in 1966, and now has a population of about 5,000. It was given the name Vail after Vail Pass which runs by the mountain (now also called Vail Mountain). The resort was opened in 1962, basically in the middle of nowhere. The Vail Ski Resort in Colorado is the largest single-mountain ski resort in the whole country. It became the most-played pop song in a single week in the history of American radio. Shakira’s 2006 song “Hips Don’t Lie” broke a record soon after it was released. Since then, Sega has focused on producing video games as opposed to hardware. It was to become the company’s last game console. The Dreamcast is a video game console released by Sega in the late nineties. 22 Maker of the old Dreamcast game console : SEGA The line of toys comprises 3-inch tall human figures along with a range of accessories. Playmobil is a brand of toy made in Germany. 21 Toy brand with plastic figures : PLAYMOBIL Richard Carpenter saw the commercial in 1970, and made arrangements for the Carpenters to record a complete version of “We’ve Only Just Begun” later that year. The Carpenters hit “We’ve Only Just Begun” started out life as music for a wedding-themed TV commercial for a bank. Apparently Ono relented when Lennon paid her an imaginary five shillings to hammer an imaginary nail into the wood. Lennon wanted to hammer in the first nail, but Ono stopped him as the exhibition had not yet opened. Visitors were encouraged to hammer in a nail into a wooden board, creating the artwork. Ono actually met her future husband John Lennon for the first time while she was preparing her conceptual art exhibit called “Hammer a Nail”. 16 Yoko whose work is sometimes described as 17-Across : ONO “Krazy Kat” is a successful comic strip that ran from 1913-1944 and was drawn by George Herriman. The initialism “KP” is US military slang that stands for either “kitchen police” or “kitchen patrol”. 7 Peeling potatoes as punishment, maybe : ON KP Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year. She has won several awards, and is the youngest person to have won all four major Grammy categories in the same year, i.e. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossġ Award notably won in each of the “big four” categories by this puzzle’s honoree : GRAMMYīillie Eilish is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles.
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