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ACROSS
1 Touch, e.g.
6 Model in a bottle
10 SALT weaponry
14 “Ta-ta, mon ami”
15 Students’
lunchroom
17 Secondhand
wave of
excitement
19 Surprised cries
20 Court plea,
briefly
21 Bridal path
22 “Uh-uh—
however ... ”
24 They may be
raised in casinos
25 Saudi neighbors
27 Google Apps
component
29 Place to get
delivery
instructions?
31 Pro bono TV ad
34 “Hamilton” climax
35 27-Across
alternative
36 Has second
thoughts about
37 Member of the
fam
38 Hare care site
42 Thick
43 Off the beaten
path
44 Arcade activity
47 Welcome words
to a hitchhiker
48 Kicking partner?
49 Ancient France
51 St. Petersburg’s
river
54 Minister or imam,
say ... and, in two
ways, a hint to
words hidden in
17-, 29- and 38-
Across
57 Jaguar’s jaguar,
e.g.
58 Clarence Odbody
in “It’s a
Wonderful Life,”
e.g.
59 Give a finer edge
to
60 Word with bill or
ball
61 In __: unborn

DOWN
1 Hockey
announcer’s cry
2 Actress Falco

3 The Sultan of
Swat and The
Splendid Splinter
4 Like produce at
farm-to-table
restaurants
5 The Danube’s
cont.
6 “Run along now”
7 Pull with effort
8 “Assuming it’s
true ... ”
9 Guinea pig, e.g.
10 Taken from
above, as photos
11 Invigorating
12 Jacque’s
thousand
13 Cyber Monday
events
16 “To clarify ... ”
18 Operating
23 Show __
24 Copenhagen
carrier
25 Former GM
division
26 Haleakala
National Park
locale
27 Round Earth map
28 Landlocked
African nation
30 Airport lineup
31 Made tense

32 Doctrinal faction
33 Tennis great
Arthur
36 Cud-chewing
mammal
38 Go back (on)
39 Director Lee
40 Disruptive forum
visitor
41 With it, once
42 Cut into parts
44 Brooks with two
Grammys

45 Last 25-Down
model
46 Italian fashion
city
47 Iditarod runner
49 Hockey
announcer’s cry
50 Pervasive glow
52 Turn sharply
53 Guthrie who sang
about Alice
55 Little trickster
56 Seine filler

By Jeffrey Wechsler
©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
03/28/18

03/28/18

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

RELEASE DATE– Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

Almost 10 years ago, “Iron 
Man” was met with great 
critical 
and 
commercial 
success. The film ended with 
the now well-known “post-
credits sequence,” in which 
an eyepatch-wearing Samuel 
L. Jackson (“The Hitman’s 
Bodyguard”) 
arrived 
on 
the 
scene 
and 
mentioned 
something called the “Avengers 
Initiative.” The rest is history. 
Ten years and 18 movies later, 
we are now one month away 
from “Avengers: Infinity War,” 
the 
ostensible 
culmination 
of the sprawling superhero 
saga and the capstone to all 
that has come before. I don’t 
particularly care for these 
Marvel movies, but I am 
hopeful about “Infinity War.”
I have long argued in this 
column that ending defines 
meaning. For a story to have 
a point, it has to have an end. 
Without an ending, a story 
isn’t a story at all, but merely 
a continuous series of events 
that goes on and on and on. 
Even the most elementary 
of storytellers could tell you 

that everything has an arc, a 
beginning, middle and end. The 
Marvel Cinematic Universe (or 
MCU), that idea of smashing 
different franchises together 
into one super franchise, in its 

quest to continue expanding 
ad nauseam, has utterly failed 
in its attempts to tell an 
overall story. “Infinity War” is 
its final chance.
In broad strokes, it would 
be easy to say that the MCU 
has told a story. In the films 
leading up to “The Avengers,” 

we saw The Avengers form. 
In “Captain America: Civil 
War,” we saw them fall apart. 
And now, in “Infinity War,” 
we will see them come back 
together 
to 
fight 
Thanos, 
the evil alien who is after 
all of the MacGuffins from 
previous films which, when 
collected, can be combined 
into the ultimate MacGuffin 
that he will use to take over 
the universe. That’s the story. 
But it hasn’t been told. Or at 
least, not told well. Oh sure, 
the events have happened, 
more or less. But the fatal flaw 
of the MCU has long been that 
the idea is much cooler than its 
actual execution.
Almost every single film 
in the series begins with the 
status quo and ends with the 
status quo. A major character 
has never died. Over the course 
of almost 20 movies, we have 
seen the Earth be saved from 
complete destruction almost 
20 times. Never once has any 
of it seemed to mean much 
of anything. The story of a 
team coming together, falling 

‘Infinity War’ & Beyond 

DAILY ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN

IAN HARRIS

“When I was a kid, I 
was always putting models 
together. My bedroom was full 
of hot rods, monster trucks 
and classic cars. Deep inside 
my soul, I am still that kid 
when it comes to building 
these 
vehicles. 
And 
when 
I’m 
immersed 
in 
building 
something from scratch, I am 
no longer in prison. I’m sitting 
in my bedroom, gluing in each 
piece, getting it just right. 
I hope you enjoy checking 
these out as much as I enjoyed 
creating them.”
That is the artist statement 
from Michael Hiltz-Denman, 
whose work appeared in the 
“23rd Annual Exhibition of 
Art by Michigan Prisoners” 
in 
the 
Duderstadt 
Center. 
The exhibit showcases works 
created by people incarcerated 
in Michigan Department of 
Corrections facilities. Curators 
and volunteers visit artists in 
all 28 adult prisons to select 
work for the show. The pieces 
range in media, content and 
level of artistry, making for a 
diverse exhibit.
I don’t often think of the 
incarceration experience, save 
for the few times I drive past 
a corrections facility. Yet it 
was impossible not to consider 
it when looking at all the 
pieces. Some of the art directly 
addressed 
the 
experience, 
portraying the bars and the 
cells. Others, like Monster or 
Victim? by Parrish Collision, 
were clearly meant to make 
us question the conviction 
process. At first glance, the 
piece appears to be a huge 
human eye, drawn in close 
detail. But in the pupil, you 
can see the courtroom and two 
hands in handcuffs. I spent 
a long time wondering about 

the backstory of this artist and 
about the amount of artwork 
I saw that similarly hinted at 
wrongful convictions.
We could also read artists 
statements from those who 
decided to write one. As I 
flipped through the booklet, 
I was struck by the common 
threads — for many of them, 
art is a means to express 
themselves 
or 
remember 
different 
times, 
much 
like 
Hiltz-Denman’s statement. It 
was a surprisingly intimate 
look 
into 
the 
minds 
of 
prisoners, who we may often 
forget or choose not to think 
about because they dredge 
up conflicted feelings about 

the 
horrible 
crimes 
that 
have 
been 
committed 
and 
the way our system handles 
criminal behavior. I found the 
statements to be incredibly 
humanizing and a way for me 
to think about each individual, 
instead of thinking collectively 
of them as prisoners.
The 
exhibit 
also 
made 
me think beyond issues of 
incarceration 
or 
wrongful 
convictions. Artists made a 
variety of statements, whether 
personal, 
environmental 
or social. Spill Ink Not Oil 
by Bradlee M. Patrick is a 
watercolor and acrylic piece 
depicting an ocean in dark 
blue hues. The black that seeps 
into the water stems from a 

massive quill pen’s ink, and the 
colors drip off the canvas onto 
its mounting. This is a piece 
that’s stunning because it’s so 
simple and elegant. It doesn’t 
try hard to tell us what it’s 
about. Instead, its power is in 
the detailing of the feather and 
the droplets spraying off of it.
Another piece I spent a lot 
of time looking at was One 
Forgotten Part by Thomas 
Gordon. It’s a sculpture of a 
robot fashioned out of metal 
parts. One arm holds up a 
circular box with a mechanical 
heart placed inside it. A frame 
at the bottom of the piece 
showcases a poem written by 
the author, discussing how 
he was once a human but was 
changed into a lifeless bot. The 
ending lines hit at the dilemma 
Gordon is portraying: “They 
say I have no emotions and 
can’t feel pain, / Then why do I 
cry from the stress and strain, / 
Do they not realize they missed 
one part. / I still am suffering 
because they forgot my heart.”
It was tough for me to 
look at this work when I was 
wondering about why these 
people were incarcerated. A 
part of me wanted to believe 
these artists had done nothing 
wrong, but a few quick Google 
searches of some of them 
hinted at troubled backgrounds 
and 
serious 
crimes 
like 
sexual misconduct. It was an 
uncomfortable conflict, and I 
wasn’t sure how much empathy 
to feel or not feel, how much I 
was supposed to like the art or 
not like it. Though I want to 
ignore the discomfort, I know 
that I can’t. Instead, I must 
look at this art as a reminder 
that 
these 
incarcerated 
adults are people too, who 
have creativity, emotions and 
passions. And while it may be 
difficult for me to view, their 
art deserves the chance to be 
shared.

Exhibition of Art by Mich. 
Prisoners quietly stuns

DANYEL THARAKEN / DAILY

COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW

NITYA GUPTA
Daily Arts Writer

23rd Annual 
Exhibition of 
Art by Michigan 
Prisioners

Mar. 21 - Apr. 4

Duderstadt Center 
Gallery

Free

apart and having to come back 
together again is a classic one 
and one that should not have 
been that hard to tell. But 
the problem is that the MCU 
has worked almost entirely 
in bullet points, without the 
connective tissue needed for 
such a story to work. At the 
end of the original “Avengers” 
movie from 2012, the heroes 
all go their separate ways after 
fighting one battle together 
and meeting each other. At the 
beginning of 2015’s “Avengers: 
Age of Ultron,” the group is 
now best friends that have 
clearly been working together 
for months or even years. 
Two of them are suddenly in 
a previously never-mentioned 
relationship. Tensions exist 

that were nowhere to be found 
in the original. The Avengers 
are now a family, but we never 
got to see them become one. 
The films elided the part 
where the characters actually 
got to know each other. The 
audience is left to assume 
that there were a bunch of 
adventures off-screen in which 
the characters developed. It 
doesn’t work.
Something similar happened 
with “Civil War.” What on 
paper is the story of our heroes 
disagreeing about whether or 
not superheroes should have 
to be held accountable by 
the government in actuality 
turned out to just be a conflict 
about whether or not Iron 
Man can get over the fact 
that Captain America’s buddy 
Bucky Barnes killed his mom 
(never mind the fact that 
Bucky did it while under mind 
control, because the film never 
seems to care about it). The 

central conflict of hero versus 
hero, of a family torn apart 
by a fundamental political 
disagreement, is sidestepped 
in favor of a story that boils 
down to miscommunication. 
“Civil War” wanted to be the 
dark middle chapter of the 
franchise, the “Empire Strikes 
Back” of the saga so to speak. 
But it misses its chance by 
both undercooking the central 
conflict and leaving its heroes 
in a pretty good place with 
each other at the end. No one 
dies. No one is truly hurt. 
The closest thing we get is 
Don Cheadle’s War Machine 
breaking his legs. He’s up and 
walking again by the end of 
the movie. You want to come 
out of this, a film called “Civil 
War,” feeling that there is no 
way the Avengers will be able 
to handle what is coming to 
them. In the end, you get the 
sense everything will be just 
fine.
And now comes Thanos. 
The big baddie to end all 
big baddies. The thing that 
all of this has been building 
towards. Or has it been? You’ll 
notice Thanos has barely been 
mentioned thus far in this 
article. That’s only one or two 
times fewer than he’s appeared 
in all 18 films. J.K. Rowling 
did a better job building up 
Voldemort as the ultimate 
villain in the pages of her 
first Harry Potter book than 
Marvel has done in 18 feature-
length 
films. 
What 
does 
Thanos want? Where does he 
come from? Who in fact is he? 
If you haven’t read a ton of 
comic books, it’s doubtful that 
you have any idea. Has he had 
any real impact on any of the 
events that have come before? 
If he has, it hasn’t been made 
clear. And if all he wants is to 
take over the universe using a 
magic power MacGuffin, what 
makes him more dangerous 
or more threatening than the 
countless villains we’ve seen 
before who wanted to do the 
exact same thing? In the end, 
despite all of the bluster and 
popular cheer, the Marvel 
Cinematic 
Universe 
has 
operated far too much like a 
comic book, and not enough 
like a film series.
I said at the beginning of 
this piece that I had hope for 
“Infinity War.” I do. I’m not 

naïve enough to think that 
there won’t be more MCU 
films after this. But many of 
the original actor contracts 
expire with this film and it 
seems this is the closest thing 
to an ending we will ever get. 
It’s the series’ final chance 
to prove that it is more than 
just a giant advertisement 
for toys and comic books. It’s 
the final shot for the series 
to decide to actually be about 
something. For it to give the 
characters arcs that last, for 
Tony Stark to finally make the 
ultimate sacrifice, for Captain 
America to decide what it truly 
means to be a symbol, for The 
Hulk to come to grips with 
his affliction, for Hawkeye to 
do something, anything, this 

is the last chance. Stick the 
landing, and you can make 
it all worthwhile. The Ant-
Mans and Doctor Stranges 
and forgettable Thor movies 
and rebooted Spider-Man — it 
can all be made to have lead to 
something great, like how the 
original pre-Avengers movies 
were raised up by the quality 
of what they led to. It isn’t too 
late for the MCU to prove that 
it’s actually telling a story, 
rather than just trying to print 
money. The alternative is that 
“Infinity War” will turn out 
to merely be the lead-in to 
“Avengers: Ultimate War” or 
“Avengers: 
Eternal 
Battle” 
and then we will get three 
more “Iron Mans” and six 
more “Thors” and 17 “Black 
Panther” spin-offs and on 
and on it will go forever and 
ever and ever. On April 27, we 
will have reached “Infinity.” 
Please just for once, let us not 
go beyond.

And now comes 
Thanos. The big 
baddie to end all 
big baddies

On April 27, we 
will have reached 
“Infinity.” Please 
just for once, let us 
not go beyond

6A — Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

