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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.”