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ACROSS
1 Texting protocol
initials
4 Fired (up)
9 Immortal Jazz
trumpeter, to
fans
14 Power __
15 “That Girl” star
Thomas
16 Chef Hall who
co-hosts “The
Chew”
17 “Bambi”
character
18 Worker in a red,
white and blue
truck
20 Fastest of
Columbus’ ships
22 Progressive rival
23 Kilmer of “The
Doors”
24 Cyclist’s violation
26 Unlikely
smartphone user
28 Picnic __
29 Opening
32 “Piece of cake!”
33 Room for family
game night
34 Chambermaid’s
supply
35 Hook shape
37 eBay event
42 Funds for the
future, briefly
43 Finish filming
44 Done with, with
“of”
46 Butler’s home, for
a while
49 Technician with a
fork
51 Inactive
52 Lex Luthor and
Superman, e.g.
54 Mic users
56 CXVI years ago
57 Indian royals
60 Belgrade natives
61 Document that
might be
subpoenaed
64 Mets’ div.
65 Best Actress
winner for “Two
Women”
66 “Hooray!”
67 “Days of __
Lives”
68 Strike out
69 Stuck-up types
70 Like freshly
applied polish

DOWN
1 Jay Pritchett, to
Manny, on
“Modern
Family”
2 Bite-size cookie
3 Co-screenwriter
and star of “The
Gunman”
4 University of
Jordan city
5 Billy’s cry
6 Uptight type
7 Allure rackmate
8 Not likely to bite
9 New England
whitefish
10 Longest river
entirely in
Switzerland
11 Small stuff
12 Lacrosse
shoes
13 Road hog?
19 Clinic service for
serious injuries
21 Niña’s aunt
25 Run wild
27 Ricky portrayer
30 “Think again,
laddie!”
31 Bring forth
34 Dubbed dude
36 Additive sold at
AutoZone

38 Hemsworth who
plays Gale in
“The Hunger
Games”
39 Suffix with text
40 Catalog come-on
... three ways to
do it begin 18-,
37- and 61-Across
41 Color similar to
cerulean
45 Piece of cake, e.g.
46 Head piece?

47 Relay race closer
48 Shark hanger-on
50 Mag that merged
with World
Report in 1948
51 Picked cubes
53 Greek goddess
of peace
55 Early PC platform
58 “__ hardly wait!”
59 London district
62 Wii forerunner
63 Steal from

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COLUMBIA PICTURES

In West Philidelphia, born and raised.
‘Concussion’ too
reliant on symbolism

By ANA LUCENA

Daily Arts Writer

This biographical sports film

brings to the public’s attention
the true story of the controver-
sial research
done
by

forensic
pathologist
and medical
examiner
Dr.
Ben-

net
Omalu

(Will Smith,
“Focus”).
The
research
concludes
football

players can suffer long-term
mental
health
issues
from

repeated head trauma. Unfortu-
nately, the weak characteriza-
tion generates more sympathy
for the Nigerian doctor himself
than the ill football players he
studies, lessening the dramatic
impact of his discovery.

Omalu’s desire to be suc-

cessful in the United States is
what underpins the story while
taking the focus away from its
subject. The film ignores the
National
Football
League’s

role in hiding the suffering of
its players by instead focusing
on the doctor’s strong attach-
ment and high regard for the
country, inciting both pride
for his inspired success and
shame for his rejection from
the American scientific com-
munity. All the while, it ignores
the principal entity that is
fighting against his work. The
way he modeled his goals after
his superiors even though they
have diversely different back-
grounds illustrates how he was
not cognizant that his race and
origin could hinder his career.
This builds our sympathy for
the naive character when his
research is dismissed by his
peers not only for having for-
eign credentials but for being
so un-American by attacking
the nation’s most popular sport.
Though he becomes a sympa-
thetic protagonist as a result, it
turns the film into a chronicle
of Omalu’s personal struggles
that barely touch on the tragic
deaths of the football players
that fueled his work.

The prominent role of his

deep faith, on the other hand,

renders him a two-dimensional
hero. The crosses in his house,
Bible on his nightstand and
inability to let loose at a club
when celebrating the publica-
tion of his research with then-
girlfriend Prema Mutso (Gugu
Mbatha-Raw, “Jupiter Ascend-
ing”) limit his character devel-
opment by having race and
religion being the sole drivers
of his character. The extent to
which Omalu is caricatured is
overbearing, as shown by how
he goes to extremes to human-
ize the cadavers with which
he works, at the cost of follow-
ing Western norms that mini-
mize waste. His straightlaced
nature and childlike inability
to believe how malicious his
fellow scientists are in trying to
silence his findings rightfully
gets him called a “self-righteous
bastard” by supporter and col-
league Dr. Julian Bailes (Alec
Baldwin, “Mission: Impossible
- Rogue Nation”). His constant
references to the divine and the
benefits of seizing opportunity
make his character more of a
Christ-like symbol than a real
doctor.

Omalu’s wife brings an unim-

portant love story into the mix
even though she adds undue
stress to the protagonist as he
deals with federal law enforce-
ment. Her miscarriage in the
midst of the backlash causes
Omalu to blame himself for
taking personal time to recover
after dealing with the FBI, after
having explicitly stated he does
not drink or socialize often.
This conflicts with her sole rel-
evance to the film – inspiring
Omalu to enjoy himself more.
As her profession as a regis-
tered nurse is highlighted at
the beginning of “Concussion”,
it was a let-down that Mutso
was featured so prominently
even though she did not play a
role in her husband’s work.

In contrast, the depictions of

the football players suffering
from the previously unknown
chronic
traumatic
encepha-

lopathy while the NFL failed
to stand up for its players by
resisting to acknowledge Oma-
lu’s findings was effectively
distressing. This dynamic was
brilliantly illustrated by Dave
Duerson,
a
former-player-

turned-NFL-Players-Asso-
ciation-executive
(Adewale

Akinnuoye-Agbaje, “Trumbo”)
ignoring the mental health con-
cerns of his past teammate and
friend Andre Waters (Richard
T. Jones, “Hot Pursuit”), only
to commit suicide, when unable
to cope with the same CTE-
caused neurological deteriora-
tion himself.

As a whole, the film struggles

to dramatize the state of foot-
ball that led to the finding of
CTE while telling the behind-
the-scenes story of the man
who discovered it at the same
time. Although it has strong
directing
and
commendable

acting, particularly by Smith,
the message is poorly relayed
by focusing on the obstacles
Omalu faced instead of the
potential impact his research
has. In spite of this, it will
hopefully generate construc-
tive dialogue on this hot-button
issue.

C+

Concussion

Columbia
Pictures

Rave & Quality 16

Troxler posters
presented by ‘U’

Famed Swiss

graphic designer to
have exhibition at
Slusser Gallery

By NATALIE ZAK

Daily Community Culture Editor

Hung up in my room is a

wrinkled, slightly torn poster,
proclaiming in Greek the tour
dates of a band
I’ve
never

heard
of
or

bothered
to

listen
to.
It

exists
simply

because
I
entered

Athens
with

the intent of
finding myself
a souvenir that
actually
held

value, instead
of buying one
that would fade
into
oblivion.

This particular
poster
was

valueless,
but
it
met
the

grandiose qualifications I had
set for my steal: brightly colored
with cool shapes.

What I failed to realize at the

time of my adolescent thievery
was that these qualifications I
had been searching the walls of
the city for are the foundation
for graphic design. An art
typically associated with the
new technological era, graphic

design as an art form has been
on the rise for generations often
appearing in the form of posters,
album art and typography.

It was this art that Swiss

graphic
designer
Niklaus

Troxler found so enchanting as
a young boy. An exhibit curated
by Stamps Art & Design prof.
Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo opens
this week bringing together 40
years worth of Troxler’s jazz
posters, that have gained world
renown for the standard they
set for graphic design.

Born
in
1947,
Troxler

was attracted to the posters
that surrounded him in his
hometown
and
it
became

obvious to him that this was
what he wanted to help create.
After studying at the Lucerne
School of Art and Design, Troxler
made his way to Paris where he
began making a name for himself
in the design world.

“It was clear, that I wanted

to be a graphic designer … in
those days, Swiss designers and
especially
typographers
were

very welcome in Paris,” Troxler
said in an interview with the
Daily. “I worked in a team with
three female designers and we
did projects for editors, architects
and also interior designs.”

Every art needs inspiration,

however, and for Troxler that
inspiration
is
contained
in

jazz music. At the age of 19 he
organized his first jazz concert,
and 10 years later organized
the first Willisau Jazz Festival
in 1975. Passionate about Free
Jazz, an experimental jazz
movement that introduced the
musical stylings of Cecil Taylor
and John Coltrane to the world,
Troxler
recruited
countless

musicians
including
Archie

Shepp, Albert Mangelsdorff,
John Surman and Frank Wright
to perform at the premiere
festival.

It is here that Troxler’s

work flourished. Integrating
the sonic beauty of jazz music
into his art, Troxler created

posters for these festivals every
year, posters that have brought
his skill and talent to the
forefront of the graphic design
revolution.

“Everything that attracts me

in jazz, I can adapt in my design:
improvisation,
composition,

sound,
personal
expression,

interaction, order and chaos,”
he said.

The sonic intricacies of jazz

can almost be heard in Troxler’s
designs. His posters contain
more than bright colors and
cool shapes; they encompass
passion,
joy,
urgency
and

power. It is because of this that
his pieces have won esteemed
awards and been collected by
museums around the world,
including
New
York
City’s

Museum of Modern Art.

Troxler hasn’t shied away

from addressing controversial
matters in his art either. The red
Swiss flag dominates a recent
piece of his that addresses
the population of Switzerland
directly, as it proclaims that the
country must leave its borders
open for refugees.

Countless
posters
exist

around cities that easily blend
into
the
background.
They

make up a large part of urban
scenery, coming close to being
the nature that metropolitan
centers often lack. But as
Troxler has and continues to
prove, graphic design is the
source of admirable works of
art and calls to action that far
surpass anything bright colors
and cool shapes can inspire.

FILM REVIEW
COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW

Niklaus
Troxler:
40 Years
of Jazz
Posters

January 15-
February 20

Slusser Gallery

and Work Ann

Arbor Gallery

Free admission

He hasn’t shied

away from
addressing
controversy.

For Troxler,
inspiration is
contained in
jazz music.

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