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ACROSS
1 Closest pal, in IM
shorthand
4 Fish-eating raptor
10 Wretched
14 Period of history
15 Put a new flannel
layer in, as a coat
16 Fruit punches
17 Nonconformist
Harley-riding
groups
19 Picky details
20 Chief Norse god
21 “Hulk” director
Lee
22 Photoshop
creator
23 Longtime “SNL”
announcer Don
25 Rose and
Orange
28 Hoppy brews, for
short
30 Dog command
31 Shake, as with
fear
34 Demeanor
35 “__ on a Grecian
Urn”
38 Places where
critters procreate
41 Camera initials
42 35-Across, e.g.
43 Gulf War reporter
Peter
44 Cancún house
45 Quick cash
sources, initially
46 Honey Ryder and
Mary Goodnight
50 “Fantastic!”
54 Like beer in a
cooler
55 Unit of resistance
57 Lost fish in a
Pixar film
58 Letter before eta
59 Barry, Robin and
Maurice Gibb ...
and a hint to 17-,
25-, 38- and 46-
Across
62 Rowing tools
63 Pine secretions
64 Antonym of post-
65 Gin fizz fruit
66 Remove, as a
chin strap
67 The “S” in iOS:
Abbr.

DOWN
1 Jazz style
2 Mexican artist
Kahlo

3 Fire-walking
mystic
4 Bruin legend
Bobby
5 Nintendo rival
6 Backup
strategies
7 Drummer Starr
8 London’s land:
Abbr.
9 “Okay”
10 Graffiti creator,
perhaps
11 Figure of speech
12 Do not disturb
13 Letters before
tees
18 Curly salad green
22 Child
psychologists’
benchmarks
24 Where to find
columns with
views
26 Millard Fillmore,
partywise
27 Ogle
29 Melodic passages
31 NFL play callers
32 Internet address
33 __ Lingus: Irish
carrier
34 Roaring-lion
studio
35 Washington’s bill

36 Banned pesticide
37 Winter hrs. in
most of Michigan
39 Not far
40 Like heroes
deserving more
recognition
44 Jewel box
45 Hearth
receptacle
46 Obnoxious
clowns
47 Basketball’s Shaq

48 Part of TNT
49 Rich soil
51 Pals, in slang
52 Nail-filing board
53 Kentucky Derby
flowers
56 “American
Beauty” actress
Suvari
59 __TV: Turner
channel
60 Farm layer
61 Telepathy, e.g.

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02/05/18

02/05/18

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BOOK REVIEW
‘Farewell to the Horse’ 
tells a cultural history

Usually, 
when 
I 
think 
of 
nonfiction, I think of boring, 
textbook-like tomes filled with 
page after page of rigid, unrelenting 
text. Maybe there’ll be a diagram 
or two tossed in there to spice 
things up. Maybe the writer will 
have tried to break up the book’s 
monotony by dividing chapters 
up into bite-sized, ever smaller 
sections. Though Ulrich Raulff’s 
“Farewell to the Horse” is made 
up of four smaller sections, Raulff’s 
thoughtful 
detail 
description 
pushes the book over the delicate 
line that divides boring textbooks 
and quirky nonfiction.
Raulff turns history into a story 
of sorts, told from the horse’s 
point-of-view. In the very first 
passages, he details an amusing 
scene from his past. It’s the mid 
1950s, back when cars and diesel 
powered machines were gradually 
beginning to replace horses as the 
primary means of transportation 
and power. Right in front of 
Raulff’s eyes, his cousin crashes 
a diesel vehicle into a nearby 
fence, becoming so entangled that 
eventually, the only way to extract 
both man and machine is through 
a draft horse — the very animal 
that the former were supposed to 
replace. In a way, it’s also a warning 
for us to never forget our roots.
At one point, Raulff discusses 
how Paris, though one of the 
blooming political, cultural and 
social cities of the world, was 
also a hell for horses; the city’s 

very development was impossible 
without the cheap transportation 
and power that horses provided. 

He details stories of horses in 
war, with photographs of their 
grand bodies lying sprawled in 

abandoned battlefields; in history, 
when they served as the true 
backbone of the Mongol Empire; 

and the role of horses in art as 
inspiration, metaphor and subject. 
He explores bestiality in art, like 
the movie of a pubescent girl, her 
horse and their unshakable bond, 
or even more specifically, the way 
horses show up in Franz Kafka’s 
work.
“Farewell 
to 
the 
Horse” 
implicitly reminds us of how 
far technology, as a whole, has 
progressed. As much as our 
generation loves gizmos, we were 
never alive back when horses were 
essential to daily life, and though 
some of us have deep attachments 
to our cars, rarely, if ever, do most 
people experience that working 
bond between horse and person. 
Carriage rides are novel nowadays, 
something fun to do on Christmas 
Day or a memorable flourish for 
someone’s wedding, but Raulff 
implores us to look past the 
technical pros and cons of times 
long gone and remember the 
animals that carried humanity for 
so long.
“Farewell to the Horse” isn’t a 
nice, light, nighttime read. In fact, 
a majority of the population might 
find it particularly boring; there are 
certainly places in the book where 
the reader can be overwhelmed 
by the sheer density of words on 
the page. As a whole, “Farewell to 
the Horse” sometimes feels like 
a dictionary; one could flip the 
book open to any page and start 
reading without really missing out 
on what came before. But that’s 
where its beauty lies. Sometimes, 
instead of a book that transports 
us to fantastical worlds, we want 
something to ground us in our own.

SAMANTHA LU
Daily Arts Writer

The new release from Liverwright Books goes into depth on 
the technological revolution, grounding the reader in today

Revisiting: ‘Glee’ grows 
stale with passing time

Contrary to popular belief, 
all things do not, in fact, get 
better with time. And “Glee” 
is most definitely one of those 
things. I’d even go so far as to 
contend that it should have 
been first on the list of relics to 
be left and buried in, say, 2012 
— at the end of season three.
Don’t get me wrong, though. 
“Glee” was an absolute hit 
almost a decade ago. A gem 
of its time. It gave way to a 
national tour, a 3D concert 

movie, mountains of tween 
merchandise, multiple albums 
(full of covers that are still bops 
to this day, might I add) and a 
die-hard, swooning fanbase of 
‘gleeks’ armed with pom-poms 
and slushies. It’s just that now, 
in revisiting “Glee” after all 
these years, it was mostly just a 
pretty weird — and oftentimes 
cringe-worthy — experience.
Let’s begin by going back 
to the era of “Glee” where the 
series was endearing and truly 
a spectacle. That is, seasons 
one through three. It’s a tale 
as old as time: A high school 
harshly divided between jocks 
and nerds finds a motley crew 
of glee club members desperate 
to enter the popularity sphere. 
The characters are all so young 
and doe-eyed, struggling to 
develop a sense of their own 
identities as well as discovering 
where they fit in among others 
at McKinley High.
There is Rachel, a singer 
with 
huge 
aspirations 
of 
stardom 
and 
an 
extreme 
infatuation with a quarterback, 
Finn. Then there’s Kurt, an 
extravagant powerhouse who 
wrestles with his own self-
expression and coming-out to 
his ultra-conservative father. 
And there’s also Quinn, the 
lead cheerleader, main mean 
girl 
and 
president 
of 
the 
abstinence club — who just 
so happens to have gotten 
pregnant by a boy who is not 
her boyfriend. Somehow, no 
matter how different these and 
the other characters may seem, 
they all end up in the glee club 
fighting to win a national title 
and trying to prove that show 
choir can be cool. That sense of 
unity and family is extremely 
lovable and is what kept so 
many coming back for more 
delightful drama.
But there are also many, 
many places where “Glee” 
misstepped along the way, 
and looking back now it’s 

hard to believe that more 
people didn’t notice. First off, 
the musical numbers are all 
horribly autotuned. While I’m 
sure that was the style a few 
years ago, now it only comes 
off as very cheesy and ruins 
some of the magic of the show. 
Also, logistics are pretty much 
thrown out the window, as a 
majority of the plot meanders 
and drags on, and many of 
the scenarios are in no way 
practical. Why do we rarely 
see the glee club practicing the 
songs they are actually going 
to sing at competitions? How 
do they put those numbers 
together so quickly? So many 
questions, so few answers.
And most problematic of 
them all, for being a show 
branded 
on 
heavy 
and 
diversified representation, it 
feels like a lot of the diversity 
within 
the 
characters 
is 
done simply to check boxes 
and label the leads. We see 
the gay boy, the Jewish kids, 
the lesbians, the soulful and 
sassy Black girl and the shy 
Asians — but their character 
traits are so intensified and 
exaggerated that the so-called 
“representation” 
turns 
into 
done-for-comedic-effect 
stereotyping.
“Glee” had its hot and 
cold moments, but I have 
never seen a show fall faster 
downhill than it did after the 
conclusion of season three. 
At this point, many of our 
favorites had graduated from 
McKinley and had moved on 
to either travel far away from 
Lima, Ohio, enroll in college or 
join the military — leaving the 
school glee club with a mere 
sampling of B-list younger 
members and a fresh crop of 
eager participants.
Let me say that there are 
few things more frustrating 
than when a series brings in 
new faces to casually try and 
replace characters that have 
either graduated, died or for 
some reason left the show. But 
that is exactly what “Glee” 
tried to do beginning in season 
four — and it failed miserably. 
While the show was split-
screened between following 
the storyline at McKinley High 
and following Rachel and Kurt 
in their adventures in star-
studded New York, now “Glee” 
had lost a lot of its allure and 
simply felt like a flawed spin-
off.
Ultimately, there is no way 
to accurately encapsulate all 
of the moments where, against 
all odds, “Glee” worked. But in 
choosing three episodes chock 
full of drama, full-out musical 
numbers and all the feels, I will 
attempt to memorialize “Glee” 
for its good times, rather than 
its bad.
1. 
“Never 
Been 
Kissed”: 
season 2, episode 6
One of the beloved mash-
up contest episodes, “Never 
Been Kissed” is a standout 
because it actually takes some 
of the spotlight off of New 
Directions and introduces us 
to their competition — The 
Warblers of Dalton Academy. 
It is here that we meet Blaine 
— played immaculately by the 
University’s own Darren Criss 
— and begin to fall in love. 
It is through his passionate 
rendition of “Teenage Dream” 
and instant draw to a suddenly 

introverted 
Kurt 
that 
we 
realize just how influential 
Blaine 
will 
be 
to 
Kurt’s 
currently 
dwindling 
self-
esteem and acceptance of his 
genuine self. This episode is 
charming not only because 
of this budding romance, but 
also because it carries the 
overarching heartfelt message 
that if it takes some time and 
a little help from others to 
embrace who you are, that’s 
perfectly OK.
2. “Nationals”: season 3, 
episode 21
It is through “Nationals” 
that we are fulfilled as “Glee” 
watchers, as New Directions 
finally win a national title 
and make all of those hours 
of binging worth it. It’s a 
true rallying cry as all forces 
come together, even including 
Sue Sylvester to pull out a 
win and overcome the odds. 
This episode also features 
some of the strongest musical 
moments of the entire series, 
as 
the 
New 
Directions’ 
nationals setlist may be one of 
the greatest, most emotional 
musical montages ever filmed. 
With no lack of instances 
documenting sheer unity and 
togetherness, if there is one 
episode to be thought of when 
immortalizing “Glee” forever, 
this should definitely be it.

3. “The Break Up”: season 4, 
episode 4
Leading up to a five-week 
hiatus 
after 
its 
real-time 
premiere, “The Break Up” left 
viewers feeling empty and 
on the edge of their seats as 
everyone’s 
favorite 
couples 
disbanded in a tear-jerking 
mosaic. I mean, how could you 
not cry when couples that we’ve 
seen grow up together — Finn 
and Rachel, Kurt and Blaine 
and 
Santana 
and 
Brittany 
— are forced to say goodbye 
and let go of their first loves. 
This episode is memorable 
not only because of the strong 
emotional reaction it provokes, 
but also because most of the 
heavy 
moments 
and 
deep 
conversations are executed in 
true “Glee” fashion: through 
song. 
Each 
character 
is 
released from the bonds that 
hold them back to McKinley, 
and set free to rightfully chase 
their own goals and dreams. 
As the spotlight dims on Finn 
at the end of the sentimental 
group performance of “The 
Scientist,” we gain closure 
in the fact that the original, 
pure and captivating chapter 
of “Glee” that we grew such 
a fond connection to had now 
closed.

MORGAN RUBINO
Daily Arts Writer

Revisiting 

“Glee” after all 

these years, it 

was mostly just 

a pretty weird — 

and oftentimes 

cringe-worthy 

— experience

Revisiting is a new series where TV writers watch, or re-watch, 
popular TV shows they missed when airing in their prime

“Farewell to the 

Horse”

Ulrich Raulff, 
translated by Ruth 
Ahmedzai Kemp

Liverwright Books

February 1, 2018

Raulff’s 

thoughtful detail 

description 

pushes the book 

over the delicate 

line that divides 

boring textbooks 

and quirky 

nonfiction

It feels like 

a lot of the 

diversity within 

the characters is 

done simply to 

check boxes and 

label the leads

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