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ACROSS
1 Halloween
costume part
5 640 acres: Abbr.
9 Longtime
employee
14 Death Valley’s is
the lowest in
North Amer.
15 Mammoth
feature
16 China’s Zhou __
17 “Dirty Jobs” host
Mike
18 County Kerry’s
isle
19 Deep chasm
20 *Manhattan site
of Strawberry
Fields
23 “So long”
24 Young horse
25 One from Nairobi
27 Ultimate
conclusion
30 Made of oak, e.g.
32 Small swallow
33 Pumps or clogs
35 Thin piece of
change
38 __ out a living
39 *Prepare for
printing
42 Guy’s partner
43 Bank (on)
45 Glue in a
hobbyist’s kit
46 “Let me think ... ”
47 Utter madness
50 Michelangelo
masterpieces
52 Tallied, with “up”
54 Group after
boomers
55 “How relaxing!”
56 Process for
selecting
theatrical
performers, and
a hint to the first
word of the
answers to
starred clues
62 Bit of luck
64 Place for koi
65 Prefix with distant
66 Italian ball game
67 Woodworking
tool
68 Put on a pouty
face
69 Filled (in), as a
comic strip
70 Frog’s kiddie-lit
friend
71 Yard event
DOWN
1 Bygone Ford
division, for
short
2 Sunburn soother
3 Stitched up
4 Complain
5 Furtive
6 Comforter to get
comfy in
7 Car sticker abbr.
8 Swedish
furniture chain
9 Didn’t hold water
10 Having five
sharps,
musically
11 *Untrustworthy,
as a business
12 Course that’s
good for one’s
GPA
13 Ascended
21 Barnyard perch
22 MGM rival
26 Homer’s nice
neighbor
27 Password
creator
28 High-speed
highway
29 *Word processor
error finder
30 Teary-eyed
31 Bone, in Italian
34 Oil gp. with 12
member nations
36 Papa’s partner
37 Stately shade
trees
40 Paid out
41 Making, as a
knot
44 Big laugh
48 Did some
smooching
49 Aquafresh tube
letters
51 Overabundance
52 Talmud expert
53 Brother of Moses
54 Tokyo shopping
district
57 Petty quarrel
58 Chore list
heading
59 Greenish-blue
60 Temporary calm
61 Similar to
63 Unreturnable
serve
By Bruce Venzke and Gail Grabowski
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STYLE INTERVIEW
Olivia Carrino talks
fashion industry
University alum
and Shopbop PR
associate discusses
career
By CAROLINE FILIPS
Daily Arts Writer
It’s rare for our realities
to mimic our dreams. The
chance of someone uttering “I
love my job” with conviction
is even less likely in today’s
pragmatic workforce. Luckily
for
University
alum
Olivia
Carrino,
PR
associate
of
Shopbop, she found herself
where she always aimed to be
by keeping her goals specific,
aspirations lofty and optimism
high.
“I kind of fell into PR and
now that I’ve been doing it
for three and a half years, it’s
really exactly where I should
be,” Carrino said. “I love
interacting with people; I love
the face time; I love meeting
new people.”
For Carrino, the proverbial
finish line meant pursuing
a career in fashion or, more
specifically,
achieving
her
lifetime goal of working at
Vogue
Magazine.
By
the
summer of 2009, before her
junior
year,
she
landed
a
promotions internship at the
fashion publication, and her
dreams became a reality.
“The only place I wanted to
intern was Vogue magazine,
and there was no other option,”
Carrino said.
When she arrived at Condé
Nast that summer, having the
University of Michigan on her
resumé seemed to pair well
with her sartorial pursuits.
“The woman that hired me
for my internship was also a U
of M alum and she said to me
on my first day, ‘Well, I knew
you were going to be smart,
because you graduated from
Michigan,’” Carrino recalled.
She
found
her
Vogue
experience to be a stepping
stone along her ever-evolving
career pathway. Though her
internship on the promotions
side of the magazine was
scheduled to last half of the
summer, she was asked to stay
for the remainder of the season
on the magazine’s editorial
side.
“It led to so many things,”
Carrino said. “I was very, very
lucky, but it took a lot of hard
work to get there.”
With Carrino, her go-getter
attitude
manifests
into
a
unique triple threat — one
part drive, another part work
ethic and a third her outgoing
disposition.
“Whether it was dancing
competitively or playing soccer
or going to the University of
Michigan, I had one goal and
just kind of chased it until I got
it,” Carrino said.
It’s
that
unchecked
ambition
along
with
her
lifelong penchant for fashion
that
Carrino
attributes
to
her
success.
During
her
time at the University, she
pursued a double major in
Communications and Spanish,
dabbled in writing for The
Michigan Daily’s News section
and participated in the NOiR
fashion show her senior year.
“It’s funny because I think
a lot of people tend to say,
‘You know, what I learned in
college doesn’t really apply
in my real life,’ but I actually
feel very different for what I
do,” Carrino said. “I’ve been
working on a marketing team
and in PR and events, and
really what I learned in my
communications
classes
is
very, very applicable.”
By
the
time
graduation
rolled around, Carrino had two
job offers — full-time positions
at both Vogue and Shopbop.
Torn between her childhood
goal and the exciting prospects
of a new fashion environment,
Carrino struggled to come
to a decision. Ultimately, she
chose the Shopbop position for
its e-commerce focus — one
she decided would endow her
with a valuable edge for future
opportunities.
“It felt like the longest
weekend ever, making that
decision,” Carrino said. “It
was funny, it almost felt like
everything I wanted was right
in front of my face and I chose
to go the opposite direction.
But I think in life you learn
different things about yourself
with
different
experiences,
and I felt like my internship
had given me really great
experience and exposure in
the publishing world and I was
ready to move onto the next
step.”
At Shopbop in New York
City,
there
is
no
typical
workday for Carrino in the
constantly evolving landscape
of e-commerce. Between being
in and out of meetings, editing
interviews, editor lunches and
post-work events, hardheaded
Carrino is fit for the hectic
schedule. Along with being
style-savvy,
it’s
imperative
for fashion PR women to stay
up-to-date in all facets of the
media.
“I read WWD everyday; I
read The Skimm daily; I have
different Google alerts set
up,” Carrino said. “I think
being in PR, you need to stay
really addressed to current
events especially, obviously in
the industry. You need to stay
current because that’s what PR
is all about.”
When asked for sage career
advice for those who share her
affinity for fashion, Carrino
stressed the old adages of being
yourself and working hard,
similar to the strong example
she has set.
“I really believe you need to
stay true to yourself and kind
of not get lost in the glitz and
glamour of what the fashion
industry is portrayed to be,”
she said. “From the outside,
fashion is all pretty. At the
other side of the industry there
are a lot of smart people doing
a lot of really big things that
make it run, and I think that
you need to kind of leave your
entitlement at the door and be
ready to work and work.”
Staying
true
to
her
philosophy
of
accepting
professional
challenges
in
favor of the valuable learning
experiences
that
follow,
Carrino recently accepted a job
offer as the U.S. PR Manager
of MiH Jeans, a denim brand
based in London.
“After three and a half years
at Shopbop, I have decided it
is time to move on,” Carrino
said. “Though bittersweet, I
wanted to go brand-specific
and challenge myself in ways I
have not yet experienced.”
Though
Carrino
has
experienced success in her
field, she makes a point to stay
grounded in an industry often
seen as superfluous.
“New York is an interesting
place
and
fashion
can
be
interesting,”
Carrino
said.
“Sometimes I need to remind
myself I’m not curing cancer
and
it’s
just
clothes,
and
that kind of puts things into
perspective a little bit.”
COURTESY OF OLIVIA CARRINO
Let’s go to the mall.
“I was lucky, but
it took a lot of
hard work to get
there.”
‘Going Clear’ shocks
HBO
Don’t be mad at us, Tom Cruise.
By SOPHIA KAUFMAN
Daily Arts Writer
Alex Gibney’s new documen-
tary,
“Going
Clear:
Scientol-
ogy and the Prison of Belief,” is
mesmerizing.
Based on Law-
rence Wright’s
eponymous
book, it sheds
light onto the
strangely
fas-
cinating
cult
that has been
the source of
rumors
and
half-joking
references
in
American cul-
ture for years.
But more than just a history of an
enigmatic group, the documen-
tary tells a captivating story of the
consequences of human desires;
desires to be a part of something,
to bring change, to mean some-
thing as an individual in a world
populated by billions of people —
even when swayed by charismatic
leaders and a tempting ideology.
The documentary begins with
snippets of real audio recordings
of former Church of Scientology
members answering questions,
their voices blending together to
create a discordant soundtrack
that feels like the beginning of an
artistic horror film. The Oscar-
winning director constructs his
narrative by profiling the Church’s
founder L. Ron Hubbard. Gib-
ney demonstrates a sharp talent
for pacing from the beginning,
methodically undermining Hub-
bard’s credibility with each beat.
Hubbard’s science fiction novels,
written years before he founded
the Church, contained many of
what became the principal tenets
of Scientology. The foundation on
which the Church was built con-
sisted of recycled material from
Hubbard’s “Dianetics,” a novel
published in 1950. He lied exten-
sively about his World War II ser-
vice, spinning his own story into a
hero’s tale, insisting that Scientol-
ogy cured him of war wounds —
ones he never actually suffered. He
manipulated his wife, threatening
suicide and homicide to make her
acquiesce to his demands.
The
documentary’s
great-
est strength lies in the camera’s
unflinching gaze into the eyes of
former Scientologists who broke
with the Church. It’s clear these
ex-members just aim to explain
themselves — wanting us not only
to believe them but to sympathize
with their former selves, whom
we see triumphantly cheering
for David Miscavige’s (the leader
of the Church after Hubbard)
speeches in grainy old video foot-
age. Their accounts of the attrac-
tiveness of Scientology, an ideology
that preaches a world without war,
crime or insanity, are riveting,
revealing, as stories spill out that
have been bottled up for years.
Actors John Travolta and Tom
Cruise, the two most recogniz-
able names associated with Sci-
entology, are discussed at length.
Travolta’s
glassy
stares
and
sharklike smiles, and Cruise’s
manic convictions in old inter-
views are included in archived
footage. For faces that have been
on our screens for years, they are
startlingly frightening in this
context.
The most damning stories of the
Church aren’t those about their
campaign (which they won) to
get tax exemptions or even their
attacks on their critics, but rather
in the accusations of psychologi-
cal and physical abuse. One former
member, Sylvia “Spanky” Taylor,
describes escaping in a getaway
car from the headquarters of the
Church after seeing the kind of
neglect her newborn baby was sub-
jected to.
Despite
the
ex-member’s
eagerness, the documentary still
would’ve benefited from more
pointed questions to its interview-
ees, who were happy to talk with-
out being prodded; it is unclear
whether many of the followers
believed in the pseudo-scientific
aspects or if they were content to
ignore them. However, the direc-
tions that they take in telling their
own stories without being prompt-
ed often are absorbing enough to
keep audiences intrigued.
“Going Clear” doesn’t waste a
single minute or breath on super-
fluous information or gratuitous
dramatic devices, relying on facts
to craft a narrative that is chill-
ing in its honesty. Its persuasive
power is in the rhythmic reveal of
fact after fact, culminating in a sol-
idly constructed depiction of the
church. At the end of two hours,
it has left us not with an unshake-
able belief in the inherent evilness
of Scientology, but rather a morbid,
vaguely repulsed fascination with
the inner workings of a cult-like
organization that has managed to
stay under the radar for so long.
A-
Going Clear:
Scientology
and the
Prison of
Disbelief
Documentary
Special
HBO
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