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14 “I got this!”
15 Wheels since
1986
16 Adidas rival
17 Attire with a
spreadsheet
design?
19 Minor points
20 Under
21 More than tickles
23 Liquor in a
Singapore sling
24 Disreputable
court proceeding?
26 Unskilled in
29 Hebrides tongue
30 Arrived, in a way
31 Hardly an original
34 Office
administrations
38 Superstation that
broadcasts some
Cubs games
39 Old Testament
prophet
41 Creature for
whose shape
Anguilla was
named
42 “Broca’s Brain”
author
44 Speed away, with
“out”
45 Syrup brand
since 1902
46 Cuts (off)
48 Sacred crawler
50 Extracts from
Wrigley Field’s
walls?
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quartet: Abbr.
56 __ network
57 Emit
60 Greased auto part
61 Transports for
fertilizer?
64 Scholarship
consideration
65 Umbilical variety
66 Lover’s greeting
67 Old U.S. pump
sign
68 Bluto and Pluto
69 “Echoes in Rain”
singer

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originally called
The Farriss
Brothers

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pride
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offering
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“Jeopardy!,” e.g.
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maybe
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11 1980 Tony
winner for Best
Musical
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13 So yesterday
18 Superboy’s
girlfriend
22 Disinfectant
brand
25 Like many “Buffy”
settings
26 Kittens play with
them
27 Lingerie brand
28 Whirling toon
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Zero Sugar
variety
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existence
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John letter,
perhaps
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37 One who doesn’t
pick up much
39 __ Gay
40 “The Complete
Short Game”
author
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45 Bar attraction
47 Ministry
49 Bed with
enclosed sides
50 Absurd
51 Annoys

52 Celebrated
seasons
53 Pipe cleaner
54 Chemise fabric
58 Salon
assortment
59 Site for
handicrafts
62 “Reflection”
musician
63 Issuer of five
million-plus IDs
annually

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Arts
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There is a seemingly endless

stream of movies that render
the complication and emotional
devastation that terminal illness
inflicts
upon

love.
From
the

classic “Terms of
Endearment”
to

the teenage tragedy
“The Fault in Our
Stars,” moviegoers are eternally
transfixed by the storyline of love
persisting in the face of imminent
death. In Stephanie Laing’s Netflix
original “Irreplaceable You,” Abbie
(Gugu
Mbatha-Raw,
“Belle”),

a
headstrong
woman
freshly

diagnosed with stage four cancer,

takes charge of her grief by striving
to find a new love for her fianceé, the
sheepish yet sweet Sam (Michiel
Huisman, “Age of Adaline”), before
she passes. Though Abbie’s life-
changing condition presents new
challenges, it is the irrationality
illustrated which shows that the

soulmate-level love
shared by Sam and
Abbie is powerful
enough
to
grant

an
immunity
of

sorts that prevents

their relationship from ever truly
wavering. Despite the frustration
that the unrealistic resiliency of
their relationship evokes, there is
something strangely commendable
about the film’s ability to restrain
from trying to do too much with
such minimal potential.

This acceptance of its limitations

aside, the film is still fundamentally
flawed in its initial failure to invest
viewers into Sam and Abbie’s
relationship, a misstep that slows
the already dry and uninspired
plotline. The brief, commercial-like
montage filled with slow motion
flashbacks of Abbie and Sam as
children and teenagers near the
beginning of the film serves as a stab
at providing background. However,
attempting to sum up Abbie and
Sam’s history within the span of
a few unbearably cheesy minutes
is ineffective, and unintentionally
forms a gap between the characters
and the audience. Instead of
providing detail or substance about
why Sam and Abbie fell in love or
giving context for the backbone of
their relationship, the montage is

‘Irreplaceable’ plays it safe

In a Poem Unlimited is musician

Meghan Remy’s (a.k.a U.S. Girls)
eighth studio album since she
started exploring the depths of
the pop genre with the release of
Introduction in 2008. At first listen,
U.S. Girls’s In a Poem Unlimited
is a groovy experimental pop
record with horn-laced tracks and
whammy guitar hits that move
through the decades. It’s a record
of emotional exploration jumping
across the base of free psychedelic
rock to peaks of rigid electronic pop
all in 37 minutes.

Despite its varied sound, In a

Poem Unlimited contains three
constants:
Remy’s
disco-era,

flower petal voice, the theme of
domestic abuse and her emotional
reactions to the state of the world
in her lyrics. While the entertaining
instrumental diversity makes it
hard to pick up the emotionally
exhausting content at first, the
second listen slams into you with
each note and every carried out
synth.

Remy
begins
the
record

showcasing her talent to hit a
nostalgic ’70s groove tune with the
clean and precise sounds of modern
production using combinations of

light drum taps and dragging synth
notes in “Velvet 4 Sale.” Its light
sounding nature is contradicted in
Remy’s vengeful lyrics. She sings,
“But don’t forget the revenge / Act
like you got some velvet for sale /
Then, you destroy their hope for
deliverance / Don’t offer no reason
/ Instill in them the fear that comes
with being prey,” offering a piece

of advice to others who may have
been taken advantage of or abused
in a similar way to how she was
that’s revealed in the later songs of
the record.

This disco pop tone of the record

flows through the first few songs
and grows into a more calm and
easy flowing beat with hints of
violin and light ’90s nightclub pop
notes. It sounds smooth and free,
even with its noticeably repetitive
nature and leaves us in a place of
relief with “Rosebud.” Remy sings
“Who holds the key is what you
need to know / you and you alone,”
giving listeners a note of hope as she
displays a moment of self-saving
from the turmoil she’s endured that

parallels the smooth and forward-
moving sound of her voice.

But, Remy doesn’t allow her

listeners to get comfortable with
her style as she moves in an
entirely different direction and
circles back into a place of rigid
trauma in “Incidental Boogie.”
Remy sings “Life made no sense
without a beating, you see? / And
life was just too quiet / Without
no one screaming at me,” turning
over ear-aching synths and robotic
voices expressing the bottom level
of acceptance with abuse. Her
troubled vocals move through this
disturbing numbness throughout
the
entire
record
until
she

interrupts with “Poem.”

Remy moves through the soft

electric sounds of “Poem” and
ends with the lyrics, “What are we
gonna do to change?” and begins a
journey of recovery in her final song
“Time.” She sings, “When there is
nothing there is still time,” over a
fast and groovy pop sound giving
herself and listeners a place to step
out of the muddy past.

Each song on In a Poem

Unlimited is carefully crafted to
stand on its own, but listening to it
in the context of its whole cultivates
a cathartic experience of heavy
reconciliation and recovery from
domestic abuse laid over a deep
exploration of all things pop.

‘In a Poem Unlimited’ is
as cathartic as it is groovy

ALBUM REVIEW
SAMANTHA NELSON

Daily Arts Writer

“Irreplaceable

You”

Netflix
SELENA AGUILERA

Daily Arts Writer

“In books I have traveled, not

only to other worlds, but into my
own.” - Anna Quindlen

It’s the end of February, spring

break is looming and all I want
to do is get out of Michigan.
Whenever I’m struck by a case of
wanderlust, the cause and the cure
are usually the same: books. So,
in honor of spring break, here is a
list of books that will both get you
itching to travel and allow you to
do so from the comfort of your own
home. Accompanying each book is
a song to listen to while reading —
something that will set the mood
for the specific type of adventure
the author is describing.

1.“Eat,
Pray,
Love”
by

Elizabeth Gilbert / “Unwritten”
by Natasha Bedingfield

The first time I read “Eat, Pray,

Love” was on a family road trip
to Maine. I was 13, so obviously a
family vacation was the last thing
I wanted to do. Like, Mom — I
can’t believe you made me skip
Sam Zipin’s bat mitzvah for this.
In a huff, I ended up reading “Eat,
Pray, Love” twice over the course
of that trip. Liz became my guide
on a journey I hadn’t even known I
wanted to take. She’s not fearless —
instead, she is unafraid of her own
fear. Her descriptions of traveling
alone make the adult world seem
exciting rather than scary, which
was exactly the kind of escapism
I needed as a nervous middle-
schooler (and also the kind I need
right now). Gilbert’s eloquent
rendering of Italy is enough to
make any snow-sorry Michigander
sigh: “Just for a few months of
one’s life, is it so awful to… nap in
a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in
the middle of the day, right next to
your favorite fountain? And then to
do it again the next day?” I dare you
to read this book and not want to
go on a year-long solo adventure of
self-discovery (and also somehow
to feel as though you already have).

2. “The Alchemist” by Paulo

Coelho / “El Condor Pasa (If I
Could)” by Simon & Garfunkel

I’ll be honest: My inaugural

experience with this book was in
my eighth-grade English class,
and I definitely Spark-noted some
of it (sorry, Mrs. P). I reread it
last year, and it’s so good. Coelho
is a master storyteller. His tale
takes the reader on a literal
and metaphorical journey with
Santiago, the young Andalusian

shepherd who is searching for
meaning in the fantastical, mirage-
filled Egyptian desert. Coelho’s
language is awe-inspiring and
almost spiritual: “We are travelers
on a cosmic journey, stardust,
swirling and dancing in the eddies
and whirlpools of infinity. Life
is eternal. We have stopped for a
moment to encounter each other,
to meet, to love, to share. This is
a precious moment. It is a little
parenthesis in eternity.” It’s hard
to finish this book without feeling
like you carry with you a new trove
of secrets about the nature of the
universe.

3. “On the Road” by Jack

Kerouac / “Tangled Up in Blue”
by Bob Dylan

I know this is cliché. I know,

I know. Still, it’s hard to deny
how beautifully ambitious, heady
and breathlessly raucous “On
the Road” is. Kerouac clearly
articulates a youthful, bohemian
longing for freedom: “There was
nowhere to go but everywhere, so
just keep on rolling under the stars.
Nothing behind me, everything
ahead of me, as is ever so on the
road.” Kerouac is particularly
popular among angsty college
students, and I get why — he’s
kind of a hipster, and so are his
characters. The endless cigarettes,
the messy hair, the moody nights
spent drinking black coffee and
writing poetry — can’t you imagine
Timothée Chalamet playing Sal
Paradise? There’s also something
bittersweet about reading “On the
Road” in 2018: Kerouac’s beatnik
America is a place we cannot travel
to outside of books and poetry.
We’re lucky, then, that Kerouac is
such a skilled tour guide, a fanatic
host who, like us, is “desirous of
everything at the same time.”

4. “In a Sunburned Country”

by Bill Bryson / “Down Under”
by Men at Work

I
came
away
from
this

travelogue with two things. The
first is that I want Bill Bryson to
narrate my life. The second is
that Australia seems like the most
incredible, strange and beautiful
place on Earth. Australia, Bryson
says, “is at once staggeringly
empty and yet packed with stuff.
Interesting stuff, ancient stuff,
stuff not readily explained. Stuff
yet to be found.” It is so delightful
to hear Bryson discuss all this
stuff! Like Agatha Christie’s classic
“Murder on the Orient Express,”
a large part of the narrative of
“In a Sunburned Country” takes
place
on
a
cross-continental

train trip. Rather than murder,
however, this trip is dominated by
Bryson’s boundless curiosity and
his extensive, detailed recollections
of his own bumbling American
ways. Bryson is uniquely talented
at injecting humor into nearly every
meandering tangent and anecdote
about Australian history, and the
experience of reading is one of
complete immersion into a richly
textured and singularly bizarre
country.

Book recommendations
for your spring break bag

BOOK NOTEBOOK

MIRIAM FRANCISCO

Daily Arts Writer

feebly unoriginal and monotonous,
framing
Sam
and
Abbie
as

simply “meant to be.” Posing
their love as so eternally perfect
consequentially makes it near
impossible for viewers to interpret
the relationship as genuine or
believable. This bare-bones and
over-idealized initial portrayal of
Sam and Abbie establishes a one-
dimensional foundation and causes
the first half of the movie to fall flat.

Despite its rough start, the

film progressively gains more
momentum and finds moderate
success in reviving audiences
through the tension that emerges
as a result of Abbie’s search for
her own replacement. Though
somewhat morbid and undeniably
odd, the tension that Abbie’s
efforts breed between her and
Sam breaths a bit more life into
the storyline, creating friction and
directing the relationship away

from its preliminary artificiality.
Perhaps even more responsible for
the recovery of the later portion
of the film is the introduction of
a new relationship: an oddball
friendship between Abbie and
Myron
(Christopher
Walken,

“Seven Psychopaths”) — a father-
like, sardonic old man from
Abbie’s cancer support group. The
bond formed between these two
unlikely friends over their illnesses
adds a sprinkle of spunk and light
humor that spices up the narrative.
Myron and Abbie both maintain
exceptionally “so-be-it” attitudes
about their impending fates, not
wasting time dwelling on the
inevitable and instead exchanging
pithy banter and enjoying each
other’s company.

The overall weakness of its story

does not exactly set “Irreplaceable
You” up to triumph. Ironically,
this works out quite well because

triumph is not this film’s intention.
There is no insight offered and
no
profound
message
mulled

over when the screen goes dark.
However, despite its general lack
of oomph, there is something
commendable about the film’s
ability to understand itself. This
self-awareness comes from a clear
comprehension of the audience,
who for the most part is not
looking to be blown away with
emotion but rather just wants
mild entertainment, a tinge of
sorrow and a familiar narrative.
Viewers get exactly what they
expect with “Irreplaceable You.”
Deficient of pomp, fluff and over-
dramatization, this film does not
push too hard or dig too deep.
It accepts the limitations of its
plotline, conceals nothing from
the audience and spares itself the
embarrassment of striving to be
more than it is.

NETFLIX

FILM REVIEW

In a Poem

Unlimited

U.S. Girls

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