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1 Year in which
Salieri was born
6 Spunkmeyer of
cookie fame
10 Sports __
13 Key artery
14 Seattle’s __
Place Market
15 Hazmat suit
hazard
16 Nail the Miley
Cyrus
impression?
19 “Madam
Secretary” star
20 “Family Feud”
source
21 Stately tree
22 “... __ the set of
sun”: “Macbeth”
23 Disney title girl
from Hawaii
24 Permanently
deleted electronic
message?
30 Cinch
32 “Ah, broken is the
golden bowl! the
spirit flown
forever!” poet
33 GPS suggestion
34 Prod
35 Michaels et al.
36 End notes?
38 Pay extension?
39 It goes around in
winter
40 Antarctic transport
41 Minor trade
adjustment?
45 Majestic quality
46 Playboy
nickname
47 Kentucky
Colonels’ org.
50 “The Caine
Mutiny” Oscar
nominee
53 Genealogical
record
55 “The spasm
preceded the
other symptoms,
Doc”?
57 Used to be
58 Hendrix hairdo
59 Royal __:
scheduled 2016
British Open site
60 Unmatched
61 The Taj Mahal,
e.g.
62 Garden plant that
thrives in shade

DOWN
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2 Wooden pin
3 Vanilla treats
4 Key not used
alone
5 Bass Islands
locale
6 Wrote an essay,
maybe
7 Polynesian
carving
8 Turner of
entertainment
9 Vacation area
10 Oregon State
athlete, for short
11 Rather red
12 Legion
15 Lose illegally
17 Winner of six
David di
Donatello acting
awards
18 __ film
23 Some August
babies
25 Be selfish about,
in a way
26 Low grade
27 Fox
commentator
who was the
1992 N.L. Rookie
of the Year

28 Singer James
29 Try
30 Self-appointed
expert
31 Online TV giant
35 Moreover
36 Common liquor
purchase, once
37 Scary squeezer
39 Homburg, for one
40 Nobel, for one
42 “__ when that
happens”

43 Buster?
44 Tough syndicate
48 Get drunk
49 Insurance giant
50 USAF stealth
plane
51 Due
52 Prepare, as for
action
53 Chicken __
54 Early copter
56 One may be a
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Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

‘Living with Lincoln’
lacks cohesive style

By SOPHIA KAUFMAN

Daily Arts Writer

The problem faced by historical 

documentaries is the difficulty in 
capturing the three-dimension-
al 
complexity 

of the figures 
involved. Abra-
ham 
Lincoln 

is one of the 
most polarizing 
figures of the 
19th 
century; 

it’s difficult to 
find the balance 
between recog-
nizing him as a 
mogul for social 
and 
political 

change, yet not perceiving him as 
the revolutionary spearheader for 
racial equality. He must be ana-
lyzed critically through the lens 
of his time — not retrospectively. 

HBO documentary “Living 

with Lincoln” didn’t face that 
problem; it barely mentioned 
slavery at all. 

“Living with Lincoln” is the 

story of its director Peter Kun-
hardt’s family, and their relation 
to Lincoln — not by blood, but 
through an intense family obses-
sion which began at the time of 
Lincoln’s presidency and has 
trickled down to the present. 
Kunhardt narrates the entire 
piece, explaining why his fam-
ily (previously under the name 
Meserve) has the largest collec-
tion of Lincoln photographs and 

memorabilia. He speaks espe-
cially of his father and paternal 
grandmother and how their lives 
revolved around preserving Lin-
coln’s memory. Their family col-
lection continues to play a role 
in developing Lincoln’s image 
in American society; the images 
used for the penny, the five dollar 
bill and Mt. Rushmore were cho-
sen from their collection.

The most interesting parts of 

the documentary are the shots of 
Kunhardt family’s rooms — over-
flowing with research, faded let-
ters, crumbling journals, old glass 
plate negatives, daguerreotypes 
and salt prints, and more of the 
same packed away in boxes. The 
documentary was aesthetically 
pleasing in terms of cinematogra-
phy, but that’s the most that can 
be said for it. While this family 
does have a unique and intimate 
knowledge of Lincoln, they seem 
to have forgotten what is most 
interesting for us to see. Instead, 
we’re given personal family back-
ground that often feels extrane-
ous. Kunhardt juxtaposes the 
“darkness” surrounding Mary 
Todd with his own grandmoth-
er’s depression, making for an 
awkwardly forced comparison. 
Had the documentary been solely 
about Dorothy Kunhardt instead 
of Lincoln, or only about Lincoln 
without the extra family back-
ground, it would have felt much 
more grounded.

While it’s true that the pur-

pose of the documentary isn’t to 

tell Lincoln’s story but how his 
story intertwines with that of 
the Kunhardt family, the lack of 
historical details and nuances is 
still surprising. There’s a lack of 
new information, give or take a 
couple amusing anecdotes. Kun-
hardt doesn’t even say the word 
“slavery” until halfway through 
the documentary. He refers to 
the Emancipation Proclamation 
and the 13th Amendment in one 
breath, too simply referring to 
the latter as the measure that 
“abolished slavery forever.” This 
is a gross simplification of what 
actually happened, as the Eman-
cipation Proclamation wasn’t just 
a precursor to the 13th Amend-
ment. It had its own stipulations 
and didn’t actually set all the 
slaves free as is so often assumed. 
It was just as much a military 
maneuver as it was a social state-
ment, and all of this is completely 
glossed over in the documentary. 

The point of “Living with Lin-

coln” would have been easier to 
grasp if Kunhardt had chosen a 
style and stuck to it, like he has in 
his other works — either as strong 
a visual presence on screen, or an 
auditory presence or a completely 
distance from the story. His nar-
ration sounds too practiced and 
detached when talking about 
his own family and too familiar 
when speaking about Lincoln. 
His attempt at being both pro-
fessional and the single voice 
of authority in a family project 
doesn’t work.

Waiting on his lap dance from Mary Todd.

C

Living with 
Lincoln

HBO 

Documentary 

Special

FILM REVIEW
Banal ‘Unfriended’

By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY

Daily Arts Writer

There’s that moment when 

your few-years-too-old laptop 
stutters and you impatiently 
wait for it to 
get it together 
so 
you 
can 

continue 
trolling 
BuzzFeed, 
the 
depths 

of Reddit or 
whatever your 
weird Internet 
obsession 
is. 

You want so 
desperately to walk away and 
do something productive, yet 
you sit and pray for the situation 
to get better. “Unfriended” 
feels like this, except it never 
gets better and your computer 
murders you and your close 
friends. 

It’s a fear that most normal 

people have at some point. 
You’ve 
said 
something 

unflattering about a friend and 
if they hear about it, it is not 
going to be pretty. Only in this 
case, you’ve posted a video of 
your passed-out-drunk friend, 
covered in her own feces, 
and anonymously told her to 
kill herself online. And now, 
instead of some throwing some 
serious shade, she comes back 
to murder you and your friends 
via Skype.

The video chat originates 

with some typical teen horror 
film Skype-stripping between 
good 
girl 
“virgin” 
Blaire 

(Shelley Hennig “Teen Wolf”) 
and her wants-to-have-sex jock 
boyfriend Mitch (Moses Jacob, 
“LITERALLY 
NOTHING?”). 

Not 
before 
long, 
slightly 

overweight gamer Ken (Jacob 
Wysocki, 
“Pitch 
Perfect”), 

slutty party girl Jess (Renee 
Olstead, “The Secret Life of 
the American Teenager”), sexy 
trust fund baby Adam (Will 

Peltz, “The Collection”) and 
the bitch that for some reason 
everyone keeps around, Val 
(Courtney Halverson, “General 
Hospital”), crash their cyber 
date. 

Over the next 80 minutes, 

a daring game of “never have 
I ever” ensues, led by an 
anonymous Skype creeper — 
revealed 
through 
Facebook 

chat to be Laura Barnes, their 
“friend” who killed herself a year 
ago to the day. Slowly, fingers 
are put down, computer screens 
go black and every character 
is revealed to be equally awful 
human beings; so much so, that 
it is hard to feel any remorse for 
their gruesome deaths. 

Stylistically, the movie is shot 

99.9 percent as a screenshot of 
Blaire’s computer. Original? Yes. 
Enjoyable? Meh. She takes an 
annoyingly long time to click 

buttons, retypes messages more 
than any person should and her 
messages to her boyfriend are 
borderline painful. Secondhand 
embarrassment 
is 
rampant 

throughout, not to mention that 
her computer freezes and caused 
audible groans throughout the 
theater. 

The trend of modern horror 

movies focusing on technology 
isn’t a revolutionary idea (see: 
“One Missed Call,” “Pulse” or 
“The Ring”), but for whatever 
reason 
“Unfriended” 
chose 

to ground its cinematography 
in technology, yet its story 
explicitly outside of technology. 
The take-away isn’t focused on 
how Internet bullying is a tragic 
occurrence, but rather simply 
to not be an asshole. Don’t steal 
money from your friends; don’t 
start rumors about them; don’t 
have sex with your boyfriend’s 
best friend. You know, the simple 
things in life. Oh, and don’t 
anonymously tell your friend to 
kill herself on the Internet.

Do these things really need to 

be said? No. Did “Unfriended” 
really need to be made? No. 
However, if you’re looking for 
some cheap thrills, a good hate-
watch or enjoy hearing a middle-
aged man scream at a computer 
screen projected on a movie 
screen, this is it.

C-

Unfriended

Universal 
Pictures

Rave and 

Quality 16

Creative ‘Face Off’ 

By KIM BATCHELOR

Daily Arts Writer

The season eight finale of Syfy’s 

“Face Off” did not disappoint. Each 
year, it seems like the quality of 
work improves. 
This means a 
finale 
full 
of 

detailed 
and 

imaginative cre-
ations.

This 
sea-

son’s final epi-
sode 
brought 

the three final 
contestants: Darla Edin (28, Min-
nesota), Emily Serpico (18, Florida) 
and Logan Long (29, Utah) up 
against the biggest challenge to 
date. The three, along with a team 
built from eliminated contestants, 
were charged with creating four 
complete looks. The challenge was 
inspired by blockbuster movies such 
as “The Avengers” and “Guardians 
of the Galaxy.” This meant the four 
looks must have been the products 
of a cohesive team and fit within 
the genre of a film — certainly one 
of the most daunting tasks required 
of contestants to date. Additionally, 
their creations were put on display 
for the general public at a special 
viewing event. This is also unprec-
edented in the history of “Face Off.”

Darla was given the theme 

of “fantasy,” and created a set of 
characters based off of the four 
major elements. Emily received 
“post-apocalyptic” and decided on 
an imagination of “The Wizard of 
Oz,” choosing to fuse the charac-
ters with four different materials 
— wood, glass, leather and metal. 
Logan created a “Science Fiction” 
space team of humanoid animals.

The results were some of the 

most detailed and unique creations 
ever produced on the show, and 
certainly some of the best quality. 
Darla’s fantasy spirits were delicate 
and detailed with swirled filigree 
and attention to makeup. Emily, 
the youngest contestant to make 
the final round, shone in her color 
work. All her characters were well 
painted, and she demonstrated 
ingenuity in her creation of shat-
tered glass by mixing plastic and 
silicon. Logan created the most 
cohesive and charismatic team. 

His animal teams each had their 
own personality and you could 
almost hear the witty banter that 
would ensue between the charac-
ters if given their own movie. He 
was praised by the judges for creat-
ing something that would inspire 
potential actors. Additionally, his 
team showed strong fabrication 
work on the shell of the armadillo 
character. 

The most tense part of this “Face 

Off” finale was not any crazy lights 
or neon dance routines, but the way 
which the artists’ work was put 
under intense scrutiny, allowing us 
to get up close and personal. Unlike 
some seasons, there was no clearly 
superior or favorite work. This kept 
the audience in suspense. Addi-
tionally, another layer was added 
through this season’s implementa-
tion of alumni mentors. These men-
tors were the team leaders of one or 
two of the final three contestants, 
and were competing to become a 
two-time winner of “Face Off.” This 
meant that the audience was not 
only rooting for one winner, but for 
two.

The one aspect that lacked was 

the slow, underwhelming nature 
of the public gallery. It would have 
been more interesting to see these 
big blockbuster characters acting 
out scenes from their would-be 
movie. In the past, the costumes 
and designs have had to stand up 
under glow lights, battle conditions, 
circus performances and even 
water elements. The finale would 
have benefited from a little more 
grandeur, especially on a show 
all about pushing the limits of the 
imagination.

In the end, it was Darla’s team 

who won, though all teams were 
impressive this season. The judges 
picked hers in large part due to 
a standout piece which stole the 
show. Her wind fawn showed 
incredible finesse and thought. Her 
decision to include an element of a 
wind instrument into the design of 
the fawn’s horns was unprecedent-
ed, yet still integrated well in her 
design. It is impossible to fault the 
judges for choosing the team that 
showed the most technical skill, 
craftsmanship and imagination. 
She received the audience’s vote 
for a reason.

UNIVERSAL PICTURES

“What’s your away message?” “***Blender-slaughtered. Ded.***”

Original?

Yes.

Enjoyable?

Meh.

TV REVIEW

A-

Face Off

SyFy

Season 8 finale

TV REVIEW

