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ACROSS
1 “Invisible Cities”
author Calvino
6 “I ran away from
you once. I can’t
do it again”
speaker
10 Ford Field player
14 Surgery acronym
15 It’s a gas
16 “Snow White”
character flaw
17 Forgeries that
are easy to spot?
20 By way of
21 French pronoun
22 Habituate
23 Dude in the CIA?
28 Essen’s valley
29 Spotted
30 Slug relative
33 Roll
34 Word after clip or
pop
37 Trivial blunder?
42 Colorado native
43 “About his head
he wears the
winner’s __”:
“The Two Noble
Kinsmen”
44 Guanaco cousin
45 Beantown
athlete
47 Peek follower
49 Pancake cook in
pinstripes?
54 Some
Highlanders
56 U.N. workers’
agcy.
57 Roasting time in
Toulon?
58 “My fireplace is
defective!”?
63 “Footloose” co-
star Singer
64 Word after
“funny” that
clarifies its
meaning
65 1995 Stallone
title role
66 City NNE of
Boston
67 Senate
Republican
leader before
Frist
68 Sources of
wisdom

DOWN
1 Affectionate text
2 It’s often just
inches
3 Syrian leader

4 Full deck Nero
wasn’t playing
with?
5 Gave a thumbs-
up
6 Like some soccer
games
7 Pope before
Benedict III
8 Plant
9 Taylor of fashion
10 Pressure
11 Finish, as a tat
12 Finished
13 Where to see
MMM
18 “Toy Story”
character who
draws
19 County on the
Firth of Forth
24 Composer Satie
25 Gag __
26 Isaac’s eldest
27 Team whose
logo involves a
“wishbone C”
30 Mustangs’ sch.
31 Trivial objection
32 One-spot
33 Pan for Yan
34 Recipe words
35 Mojito 
ingredient
36 Not yet
determined, in
skeds

38 It’s surrounded
by white
39 Game ender
40 Morlock prey
41 Bomb
45 He served
between Warren
and Herbert
46 Bay State motto
starter
47 Like most rafts
48 Rorschach
image
49 Ache

50 “__ Men Out”:
baseball scandal
film
51 Pequod co-owner
52 Chopin’s “Winter
Wind,” e.g.
53 Orchestra group
54 Fish feature
55 “Hi, sailor!”
59 Vezina Trophy
org.
60 Lao Tzu principle
61 Some pop-ups
62 Brother

By Frank Virzi
©2015 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
02/20/15

02/20/15

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

RELEASE DATE– Friday, February 20, 2015

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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6 — Friday, February 20, 2015
Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

STYLE RECAP

NYFW: Erin 
Featherston

By ANDREW MCCLURE

Daily Arts Writer

Flirty, sweet and the epitome 

of charming, Erin Fetherston 
makes everyday beauty seem 
effortless. Her designs are the 
kind of clothes you would want 
to wear when you meet your 
boyfriend’s family for the first 
time — with options for the pos-
sibility of attending a wedding, a 
casual brunch or even a funeral 
(distant relatives, only).

Fetherston’s NYFW 2015 col-

lection has incredible range and 
covers all occasions. From casu-
al red carpet chic, to cocktail 
night with your ladies, to brunch 
the next morning, to date night 
that evening, just pluck a wear-
able combo from the line and 
walk out the door. These are the 
kind of clothes I hope I would 
wear if I were a working woman 
in a working city and wanted to 
seem on top of my game, but also 
like I woke up with no real agen-
da other than appearing ethere-

al for the entire day. Fetherston 
plays with organic textures, 
opening the show with white 
doily cut out patterns and slow-
ly transforming the fabric into 
a sheer deep turquoise pattern 
by the end. An incorporation 
of bright, rich jewel tones was 
an unexpected surprise after a 
continuous stream of black and 
white looks.

Flirty capes, ankle strap heels 

and a clean, pulled back look 
dominated the captivating run-
way. High collars and full skirts 
that may have looked timid on 
any other runway played off as 
expressively demure. Top looks 
include a refreshing take on a 
tank and skirt combination with 
a play on proportions, allowing 
the plain tank to fall delicately 
over a patterned, flowing skirt; 
a white tank with swing floral 
pants; and a buttoned high-neck 
black coat layered over a ruby 
red shift dress that indicated a 
mood shift near the end of the 
show.

TV REVIEW
‘Jinx’ shows truth 
at its most grizzly

HBO docu-series 
explores crimes of 

Robert Durst

By DREW MARON

Daily Arts Writer

In 2001, a Texas teenager 

found a dismembered torso in 
the Galveston Bay. The subse-
quent 
investi-

gation 
became 

one of the most 
enigmatic cases 
in United States 
history. This is 
how HBO’s doc-
umentary mini-
series “The Jinx: 
The 
Life 
and 

Deaths of Robert 
Durst” 
begins. 

At 
the 
start, 

director Andrew 
Jarecki (“All Good Things”) 
makes a clear statement to the 
viewer: reality is always more 
gruesome than fiction.

The series’ primary subject 

is the perpetrator of the crime, 
Robert Durst, the son of one 
of New York City’s wealthiest 
real estate moguls. Between 
the 1980s and 2000s, Durst 
was twice acquitted for murder 
and has been linked to at least 
three known disappearances. 
In 2001, he was the center of a 
high-profile manhunt across 
multiple state lines. Now, with 
“The Jinx,” he has agreed to sit 
down with filmmaker Andrew 
Jarecki for a tell-all, face-to-
face interview.

The first episode, “The Body 

in the Bay,” doesn’t feature the 
interview itself but it sets up 
for a miniseries that promises 
to shock, provoke, thrill, appall 
and mesmerize all who watch. 
The series’ opening features real 
photos of the crime telling us 
that if you’re too disturbed by it, 
change the channel to “Law and 
Order.” This case is real.

“The Jinx” draws viewers 

in with interviews, video clips, 
photographs and evidence from 
the crime. The case extends to 
Durst’s relatives, friends, and 
any other individuals somehow 
connected or affected by the 
case. In this, the film creates 
a web of intrigue with Robert 
Durst at the center.

In his essay, “The Simple Art 

of Murder,” crime-fiction icon 
Raymond Chandler once said 
Dashiell Hammett — whose 
contributions 
to 
American 

crime fiction rival those of 
Edgar Allan Poe — “gave mur-
der back to the kind of people 
who commit it.” This authen-
ticity is what makes “The Jinx” 
more enthralling than any hour 
on CBS where good-looking 
movie stars dodge explosions 
with snarky quips. Not to say 
that fictional shows can’t cap-
ture the reality of American 
crime — just look at “The Sopra-
nos,” “True Detective,” “The 
Wire” and “Breaking Bad.” But 
what Jarecki proves is truth 
will always be more interesting 
than fiction, and this miniseries 
is most certainly the truth, in 
all its filthy, horrible, grotesque 
magnificence.

The series premiere might 

disappoint some hoping to see 
the interview with Durst, which 
is treated as a cliffhanger at the 
end of the episode. There’s also 
quite a bit of focus on the gori-
ness of the Galveston crime. 
The real-life violence will para-
lyze most with its explicitness, 
but you wonder if the gritty 
details depicted will distract 
and turn off certain viewers 
from the series’ more interest-
ing aspects.

As for Jarecki’s style, the 

filmmaker that most comes to 
mind is Errol Morris, whose 
1988 true crime classic “The 
Thin Blue Line” revolutionized 
cinema when it saved the life 
of a man falsely accused of 
murdering a police officer. The 
cool, slick and atmospheric 
reenactments and the Philip 
Glass-inspired score are highly 
reminiscent of Morris. It’s too 
early to say what surprises 
Jarecki and his subject, Robert 
Durst, have planned, but the 
first episode promises that 
“The Jinx” will be well worth 
watching … as long as the 
viewer remembers to keep the 
lights on.

A-

‘The Jinx’

Series 
Premiere 
Sundays 
at 8 p.m.

HBO

HBO

Anthony Hopkins has nothing on this guy.

DAILY BOOK REVIEW

Dark, moving ‘Rich 
and Strange’ delights

By FRANCESCA KIELB

Daily Arts Writer

I never cry while watching 

movies. To me, the beauty 
of fiction lies in observing 
another world 
without having 
to actually take 
part in it. But I 
have to tell you 
how refreshing 
it 
is, 
every 

once in awhile, 
to really feel 
something. To 
be transported. 
To 
feel 
the 

pain of those you never have 
and never will meet and come 
out on the other side somehow 
different.

Author Ron Rash captures 

the beauty of intense, gritty 
reality by using small poi-
gnant scenes to get at underly-
ing truths. He transports you 
to places that you know exist 
but spend your days ignoring. 
Yet once you start reading, you 
don’t want to stop; you don’t 
want to put your blinders back 
on. In fact, you can’t.

The 434 pages of Rash’s 

“Something Rich and Strange” 
are sliced into 34 separate short 
stories. The stories take place 
in different times and have dif-
ferent perspectives, some first 
person, some third. They all 
take place in the same Appa-
lachian region. Rash provides 
many small scenes and snippets 
of lives that when read together 
give the reader an understand-
ing of a regional culture.

Series of short stories often 

run the risk of feeling dis-
jointed when placed side by 
side, especially stories such as 
these, with such drastic plot, 
character and time shifts. Rash 
is successful in his compila-
tion because the stories, though 
technically different, explore 
the same themes from a variety 
of angles. His characters are 
driven by forces such as pride, 
hope, desperation and a need 
for deliverance that any reader, 
regardless of their walk of life, 

can relate to. These themes are 
addressed in all 34 of his sto-
ries, providing the reader with 
a medley of related yet distinct 
emotional responses.

And yet each story doesn’t 

try to cover all four of these 
themes. Instead, stories will 
alternate which themes are 
the focal point and which are 
merely undercurrents. Some 
stories vaguely reference these 
universal struggles, and some 
succinctly spell them out.

Instead of trying to skim 

the top of all 34 stories, I, like 
Rash, want to use small telling 
moments to convey the essence 
of the text.

In the first story, you are 

thrown into a world of extreme 
poverty. 
You 
find 
yourself 

wanting to discover who stole 
eggs from the aging couple 
Jacob and Edna. You cry when 
Edna accuses the starving 
neighbor’s dog and the neigh-
bor takes his dog right then and 
there and cuts his throat “just 
in case.” You feel your own 
stomach churn as Jacob tries to 
give food to the starving family, 
but the father, Hartley, refuses 
because, “I ain’t got no money 
to buy it.” His willingness to 
suffer rather than lose what lit-
tle pride remains brings tears to 
my eyes. Tears I don’t waste on 
make-believe. Now I’m crying 
about imagined dead dogs and 
eggs goddamnit. Still I read on.

Now I’m reading about a 

woman who lives her life in 
solitude after a traumatic acci-
dent. She takes up a job run-
ning the night shift at the 
radio and slowly starts to feel 
an intangible connection with 
the audience she talks to every 
night. The station’s red beacon 
is described as a pulsing heart, 
“giving bearing to all those in 
the dark adrift and alone.” I 
start to believe that maybe there 
is a common thread that ties us 
together, even those wandering 
alone. That maybe those in the 
deepest darkest holes of isola-
tion which Rash portrays so 
well are not lost — not hopeless.

Yet just when you almost feel 

elated, almost feel like you’ve 
conquered the darkness and 
can close the book, Rash reels 
you back in with renewed ven-
geance. He delves into the lives 
of those caught in a culture of 
meth addiction. You feel hatred 
as they harm those around 
them, then sympathy as they 
harm themselves. I experi-
ence a place where “food and 
warmth and clothing were no 
longer important,” where “the 
only essentials were the red-
and-white packs a sudafed in 
the passenger’s seat.” Rash rips 
away the hope he works so hard 
to instill, only to build it back up 
again.

Through waves of pride, hope 

and desperation you find your-
self and the characters search-
ing for deliverance. A boy seeks 
refuge from addict parents in 
a snowy wood and climbs into 
a crashed airplane. As he sits 
among the dead and dreams for 
a world in the sky, he almost 
believes that the plane will take 
off. The boy “knew that they had 
taken off and risen so high that 
they were enveloped inside a 
cloud, but still he looked down, 
waiting for the clouds to clear.” 
And then you feel an indescrib-
able yet powerful need for some, 
any, subliminal force — for the 
existence of a beyond.

While reading Ron Rash’s 

“Something Rich and Strange,” 
you never really know if your 
hope is warranted, you will 
question the likelihood of a 
salvation, but at the end of 
each story you will always flip 
to the next one, hoping to find 
out. Take a risk — don’t be 
comfortable. Maybe you’ll find 
something worth crying for. I 
certainly did.

You will question 
the likelihood of 

salvation.

‘Something 
Rich and 
Strange’

Ron Rash
Nov. 4, 2014

Echo

ERIN FEATHERSTON

“Gosh, I’m pretty.”

