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ACROSS
1 Political
statistician Silver
5 Sell for
9 Learn
13 Lacking company
15 “__ way!”
16 Indian
mausoleum city
17 Dodge Chargers,
e.g.
19 Doesn’t keep
20 Rescue squad pro
21 Gerald of Tara
22 Vision-related
23 Take __ the waist
25 Hyundai’s home
27 House of Henry
VIII
29 Camera named
for a Greek
goddess
30 One of the
Canaries: Abbr.
31 Cyber Monday
events
33 Previously
34 Backs (out)
35 Warm underwear
38 Edges
41 Notre Dame’s
Parseghian
42 Had a bug
45 Dashboard
Confessional
rock genre
46 Painter’s deg.
47 Root beer brand
49 Easter season
feast
54 1492 caravel
55 “Peace out,
Pablo!”
56 Like ham in some
omelets
58 Little one
59 Future flower
60 Shindig by the
shore, and a hint
to the starts of
17-, 25-, 35- and
49-Across
62 Run out of steam
63 Smallest of the
litter
64 Derisive look
65 Rose support
66 Rich rocks
67 Root beer brand
DOWN
1 “Whatever you
want”
2 Fund-raising
target
3 Food truck order
4 Wedding RSVP
card, e.g.
5 Chocoholic’s
favorite tree?
6 Hokkaido seaport
7 Battlefield board
game
8 Prof’s aides
9 Marx playing with
strings
10 Narcissistic
indulgence
11 Most pretentious
12 Imps
14 Gp. with the
album “Secret
Messages”
18 Uncertain
responses
22 Signs off on
24 Trucker’s expense
26 To-do
28 Stutz
contemporary
32 Huge mess
33 1977 Steely Dan
album
34 Country singer
K.T.
36 Awesome quality,
as of mountains
37 Bethesda-based
medical research
org.
38 Lunches and
brunches
39 Cry of success
40 “Tartuffe”
playwright
43 Horn of Africa
nation
44 Signified
46 Submissions to
eds.
48 Nymph chasers
50 Data transmitter
51 “Cheers”
waitress
52 Savings and
checking: Abbr.
53 Slangy
affirmative
57 Around-the-horn
MLB plays
60 Good bud
61 “Wait, there’s
more”
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Arts
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Why Chris Brown
is still the worst
MUSIC NOTEBOOK
Five reasons why
Chris Brown is bad
for pop culture
By CARLY SNIDER
Daily Arts Writer
1. He beat a woman.
Who the fuck does that? How
is one so incapable of using words
to solve problems that there is
no other option but to resort to
barbaric violence? I would like
to think that most decent people
could recognize domestic vio-
lence as the heinous, inexcusable
crime that it is. But Chris Brown
has failed do that, and neither
can the portion of the American
public who continue to support
his career.
2. He promotes misogyny
and objectification in his
music.
Brown’s story would be entire-
ly different had he changed his
image
post-domestic-violence
incident and used his fame to
help women who have fallen vic-
tim to the kind of crime that he
had committed. But, he didn’t
do that. He continues to depict
women as nothing more than
sexual objects for consumption,
further promoting the sexist
culture in which male pop art-
ists thrive. For example, one of
Brown’s most popular tracks,
“Loyal,” includes some fun lyr-
ics like “I don’t fuck with broke
bitches” and “Got a white girl
with some fake titties.” So indic-
ative of equality and respect,
right? Not to mention the song’s
irony-soaked hook, “These hoes
ain’t loyal.” Women are consid-
ered unfaithful whores just for
talking to other guys, but Brown
is still praised as an important
pop culture figure despite his
history of assault.
3. He has a tattoo of a bat-
tered woman on his neck.
After comparisons were made
between Brown’s neck tattoo and
the pictures taken of Rihanna
at the hospital after her assault,
Brown quickly tried to play the
image off as a candy skull à la Dia
de los Muertos. Either Brown has
no idea what the Mexican skulls
are supposed to look like or he
went to the worst tattoo artist
on the planet — the image looks
nothing like the traditional geo-
metric, floral figures. If the image
really is supposed to be that of
an abused woman, Brown’s mis-
anthropic and violent identity is
unquestionable. And if it really
was supposed to be a candy skull,
he should ask for his money back.
4. He beat a woman.
This needs to be mentioned
again — there is no excuse for
violence against women. This
should be a career-ending act.
5. His continued success
shows the patriarchal, misog-
ynistic tendencies that are
deeply rooted in American cul-
ture.
There are many things that
can end an artist’s career — sub-
stance abuse, sexual assault,
money problems — but apparent-
ly a history of domestic violence
is not one of them. If anything,
Brown’s fame has grown since
his infamous acts of 2009. It is
not necessarily Brown’s success
that peeves me so deeply, but
its implications. Chris Brown is
nothing unique; there are plenty
of other up-and-coming artists
who could take his place as the
smooth hip-hop artist that he is
— artists who have never physi-
cally assaulted another person.
The fact that his act of unwar-
ranted violence against Rihan-
na did not bring his career to
a close shows that sexism and
patriarchal ideals are still alive
and well in American culture.
Record companies, radio sta-
tions and fellow artists (most
surprisingly
female
artists,
who perhaps need his co-sign
to break into the mainstream)
continue to work with Brown
and promote his work. Estab-
lished artists like Rihanna and
Nicki Minaj have worked with
him on multiple occasions. Pia
Mia and Jordin Sparks both col-
laborated with him in the early
stages of their career, helping
to launch them into the main-
stream. Obviously Brown is
not the only artist to demean
women through his music, but
his violent past makes his doing
so into a much stronger state-
ment — he has actually commit-
ted a wrong against women that
his music suggests is acceptable.
I know it’s improbable to think
that sexism will be succinctly
wiped out from pop culture, but
cutting out an artist who is bla-
tantly misogynistic would be a
step in the right direction.
RCA RECORDS
The coat doubles as a trash bag.
Watching America
through our TV set
By DANIELLE YACOBSON
Daily Arts Writer
“When
I
say
‘America,’
what’s the first word that comes
to mind?”
It’s a loaded question, and
one
that
inevitably
invites
stereotypes.
Maybe
the
political buzzwords pop into
mind first: democracy, freedom,
opportunity – “the American
Dream” in all its infamous glory.
But when Cut Video, a Seattle-
based YouTube channel, sent
their producer around the world
to ask this question, he received
much more honest answers.
Forget democracy – it’s the land
of Hollywood, Britney Spears
and Jersey Shore. In a video
titled “America Around the
World,” Cut Video illuminates
the overwhelming impact that
the TV and film industry has
on perceptions of American
life and culture. For better
or for worse, the industry’s
perpetuated stereotypes have
influenced how the world views
American families, careers and
relationships, surfacing truths
that may be hard to hear.
Cut Video, a channel that
features
individuals
of
all
ages,
genders,
sizes
and
races, produces videos that
predominantly
explore
hot-
button
issues
and
cultural
stigmas, such as transgender
rights. Accumulating close to
200 million views, the mini-
series has provided a platform
for discussion as stereotyped
groups are offered a voice
to share their thoughts and
experiences.
For the “Around the World”
mini-series,
the
producer
traveled across the globe to see
what people think of America,
collecting
cliché
descriptors
that have engrained themselves
into the U.S.’s cultural identity.
Of the 11 individuals featured in
the video, four think of food and
obesity while nine circle around
the American dream. “Is it a
stereotype if it’s true?” a woman
in Adelaide, Australia asked,
as she called the American
people “eternally optimistic.”
Assigning a stereotype can
make an abstract or complicated
idea become more tangible, and
when it comes to generalizing
an entire country, the few labels
that stick out are usually ones
most prominently circulated.
Not
surprisingly,
many
of
the video’s subjects point to
the
widespread
influence
of America’s television and
entertainment industry. The
chance of fame and success is
not only gloriously portrayed
in dramas and reality TV,
but also off camera, as actors
and
actresses
appear
in
advertisements
and
media
campaigns all over the world.
The pop-culture phenomena
in
the
United
States
has
transcended
all
borders,
enhancing a specific and often
misleading aspect of American
life
to
those
who
haven’t
experienced it themselves.
Global
surveys
have
corroborated the impact of
American TV culture, as the
majority
of
European
and
Asian countries are reported
to have positive perceptions
of American music, TV and
film.
According
to
a
2012
survey collected by the PEW
Research Center, ratings for
American popular culture have
continuously
scored
highly,
with over 70 percent approval
in Spain, Italy and France.
Furthermore,
results
from
a study conducted by GfK,
a market-research firm that
surveyed over 18,000 people
across 18 countries, identified
that 30 percent thought of
American TV and film as the
best aspect of American culture.
By far the most popular answer,
European
countries
alone
attributed even higher marks,
hovering around 40 percent.
Surprisingly, Americans had
drastically
different
attitudes
toward
the
effects
of
their
television and popular culture
than the rest of the world. The
GfK survey identified a whopping
32 percent of Americans attribute
film and television as the worst
contribution to world culture,
higher than any other country,
and by far the most popular
response among all individuals
surveyed. This is alarming: why
are Americans so out of sync with
the rest of the world’s perceptions?
Perhaps, the discrepancies
within
these
statistics
come
from
knowing
the
difference between real life
and a glamorized distortion.
From
“Keeping
Up
with
the
Kardashians”
to
“Here
Comes Honey Boo-Boo,” these
wildly
popular
reality
TV
shows
document
a
narrow
truth that is not applicable
for most American citizens.
Nevertheless,
these
multi-
million dollar franchises are
most widely distributed and,
therefore, the source of the
most prevalent stereotypes.
What
America
needs
are
genuine people on camera, like
those featured in Cut Video’s
projects.
In
a
recent
word
association video, the YouTube
channel
gathered
African-
American men ages 5 through
50 to respond to “America” with
a single word. Some of their
responses were not so optimistic:
“Free with an asterisk,” a 31-year-
old subject said.
This
represents
the
real
America, and the very real
people that are affected by
its everyday policies. Life in
the States isn’t an endless
summer at the Jersey Shore or
a bottomless pit of McDonald’s.
So,
instead
of
looking
to
“reality” TV and pop sensations
for a taste of American culture,
let’s turn the attention to
outlets like Cut Video that bring
to screen a more accurate vision
of America today.
E! NEWS
Kris Jenner is obviously plotting something.
TV NOTEBOOK