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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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.

6A — Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Arts
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