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01/27/20
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
01/27/20
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
Release Date: Monday, January 27, 2020
ACROSS
1 Tibetan monks
6 Rise up against
authority
11 U.S. interstate,
e.g.
14 Grind, as teeth
15 Amazon Echo
Dot’s voice
service
16 West end?
17 *Mystery/soap
(1956-’84)
that ultimately
dropped “The”
from its title
19 Pilot-licensing org.
20 “Grrr!” is one
21 Understood by a
select few
23 Garden shed tool
24 Smidge
26 Give in
27 Light-circling
insects
29 Send out
32 “Got it”
33 Start, as of
symptoms
34 John Brown’s
eulogist Stephen
Vincent __
36 “If only __
listened”
37 *One of the four
Seven Sisters
magazines that
are still in print
40 H.S. equivalency
test
43 Hopscotch
44 Sonnet line
quintet
48 Chrysler Building
architect William
Van ___
50 Campus official
51 Longest river in
France
52 As found
54 Cartoon frame
56 Prefix with gender
57 Christmas saint
60 Quarterfinalists’
count
62 Suffix with alp
63 *Televised
panelist shown
from the
shoulders up
66 Opposite of oui
67 Under-the-roof
room
68 Prefix for sun
69 Clock-setting std.
70 Sierra __, Africa
71 Prom attendees
DOWN
1 Tee size: Abbr.
2 “... et cetera”
3 Fridge stickers
4 On the briny
5 *Infielder
typically
between second
and third
6 Campaigned
7 Nobelist Wiesel
8 Pleads
9 Urged strongly
10 Barista’s
creation
11 Browser update
button
12 New employee
13 Passed, as a bill
18 Miami’s st.
22 Yale student
23 Med. care plan
25 Campaign
face-off
28 Use an axe on
30 High-IQ group
31 Simpatico
(like Justin
Timberlake’s
band?)
35 Rear warning
lamp, and what
can go with the
end of each
answer to a
starred clue
38 Soften, as one’s
voice level
39 Ex-NBA star Ming
40 Opposite
of losing,
weightwise
41 Weather-
changing
currents
42 Climber’s
downward
journey
45 “Glee” star
Lea __
46 Great __:
London’s island
47 French
possessive
49 Medical research
org.
53 Bottom line
55 Dusk, in poetry
58 Choral part
59 Organ that may
itch
61 Indian butter
64 __ cream soda
65 Spanish two
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle/
skin-care/health product brand
Goop has long been the target
of jokes skewering its willful
inaccessibility (see: jade egg
lawsuit, shockingly overpriced
products and most recently, this
candle debacle). The newest
Goop project, a six-episode
docuseries on Netflix continues
the company’s failed attempts
to induct consumers into the
carefully manicured, pseudo-
spiritual brand of capitalism.
“The
Goop
Lab”
follows
the titular brand’s employees
jet-setting across the globe
to try the latest in alternative
medicines
and
treatments.
Intercut
with
footage
of
these firsthand experiences,
Paltrow
and
Goop’s
Chief
Content Officer, Elise Loehnen,
interview
hand-selected
experts on each episode’s main
theme. Testimonials of non-
Goop affiliated people also
attempt
to
lend
credibility
to the methods using their
personal accounts of unbridled
success.
Topics
range
from
the
psychotherapeutic
benefits
of magic mushrooms to the
quest to bring female pleasure
into the mainstream to the
healing power of cold water
and breathing. That last one
was
particularly
Goop-y.
Apparently,
snowga
—
the
practice of doing yoga in the
snow while wearing only a
swimsuit — might be the next
trend to sweep the nation.
On the surface, “The Goop
Lab” doesn’t seem to have bad
intentions. A genuine interest
in bringing unconventional yet
helpful treatment techniques
into
Western
medicine
is
not
inherently
negative.
Unfortunately,
for
Goop,
authenticity does not appear
to be a pressing concern. Goop
itself does not advertise any
of its own products or directly
attempt to profit from selling
the show’s featured methods
to consumers. However, the
underlying
assumption
that
Goop is in any way affiliated
with the success of alternative
medicine calls the program’s
integrity into question.
While
Goop
definitely
pats itself on the back for
showcasing how open-minded
it is as a company, ironically,
the
emphasis
on
showing
Goop
employees
trying
hallucinogenic mushroom tea
or taking part in genital show-
and-tell sessions become part
of what makes “The Goop
Lab” questionable. In order
to show how effective these
‘East-meets-West’
treatments
are,
the
interviewees
must
speak at length about personal
traumas
or
obstacles
they
hope the techniques can help
them overcome. By equating
complete recovery of mental
and
physical
illnesses
to
practices not entirely accepted
by modern science, “The Goop
Lab” uses these testimonials as
rhetorical devices rather than
truly sensitive issues.
More self-indulgence from
Paltrow with ‘Goop Lab’
TV REVIEW
TV REVIEW
NETFLIX
The internet is a vast place.
Not only are there fun memes
and puppy videos to grace our
feeds every morning, there is
the entire dark web, too.
I don’t know much about the
latter — I am a theater major
who vehemently resents social
media,
instant
messaging
and
ad-polluted
shopping
sites. Veering off the beaten
path has never been on my
radar, but playwright Javaad
Alipoor is an encyclopedia of
knowledge on how the internet
is undermining democracy and
instantaneously reshaping the
world.
The central storyline in
Alipoor’s
new
play,
“The
Believers Are But Brothers,”
follows
two
Muslim
men
residing in different parts of
England and their experience
of getting recruited by ISIS.
I’ve
found
that
trying
to
explain the complexities of
their recruitment gives away
the show and is far better
depicted by Alipoor, so my best
bet is just to implore you to
go see it at the Arthur Miller
Theater.
The show dumped a ton
of information related to the
world of the dark web on
the viewer without slowing
down to hold anyone’s hand,
so it’s no surprise that “The
Believers are but Brothers”
was rewarded with the largest
retention of people for any
Q&A I have seen at my four
years at the University.
While I sat in the theater, I
could not shake the feeling that
what Alipoor was doing was
dangerous. He spoke so much
truth about ISIS’ successful
recruitment of young Muslims
in the Western world while
simultaneously
depicting
a
young, white supremacist who
never
leaves
his
computer
screen. In doing so, he allowed
the audience to realize how
much damage comes from
each side. Spoiler: both do an
astounding amount of rallying
for their respective causes
online.
Therefore, as Alipoor dished
out fact after fact in a state that
swung red in the last election,
I was frightened that maybe
someone who did not agree
with him could be inspired to
protest or even incite violence.
Maybe that’s part of the
show. If we are constantly
attached to these devices and
mediums of communication
that have the potential to ensue
such violence and hate, what
is the difference? According
to this show, the alt-right is
far more advanced in digital
manipulation
that
prompts
the banding together of white
supremacy
groups,online
hate speech and controlling
elections. The left is far behind
in the advancement of that sort
of asset, if you can call it that.
During the Q&A, American
culture
professor
Lisa
Nakamura said she believes the
left underestimates the value
of spectacle online that the alt-
right has come to master.
I
don’t
think
we
are
supposed to be overstimulated
this much. There is a part in
the show near the end where
Alipoor is playing Call of Duty
while the whole rest of the
stage is lit up in all sorts of
media for a couple of minutes.
I couldn’t help thinking about
how monstrous it all is.
Scenes
jumped
between
direct address to the audience,
Skype,
Youtube
and
even
WhatsApp. In each medium,
the audience acted as an avid
participant. At the beginning,
Alipoor shared memes with us
that any person under 30 would
recognize like Pepe the Frog or
Doge. By the conclusion of the
play, however, these memes
were boiled down to the basic
ideologies that fuel the world’s
most violent groups, like white
supremacists and ISIS.
Memes to terrorism is a
big jump, I know. I still have
a plethora of questions that I
want answered, but just like
going down the internet rabbit
hole, finding answers leads to
more questions. Alipoor’s play
feels a bit like going down the
internet rabbit hole. At times,
this made it hard to follow
what train of thought he was
going down.
The panel afterwards was led
by Alipoor, Nakamura (known
for her gender videogame class)
and Alexandra Stern (author
of “Proud Boys and the White
Ethnostate:
How
the
Alt-
Right is warping the American
Imagination”) and School of
Information professor Clifford
Lampe. All four had fascinating
insights into how the internet
is shaping humanity.
When asked if we are just
looking too closely at the
internet by blaming it for the
evils of the world, the panel
acknowledged the sentiment,
but Alipoor restated that there
are worlds being destroyed
because of the technology.
“There is a way that we
as humans, for better or for
worse, are able to communicate
that we haven’t even begun
to
scratch
the
surface
of
yet,”Alipoor said.
It’s exciting and frightening
to think of what happens
past the internet. We have
the history of mankind at
our fingertips, the ability to
overthrow
governments
or
create blackweb armies that
can be just a few clicks away,
so what happens next?
Now, if you’ll excuse me,
I’m going to go scroll through
Facebook to shake off all this
internet anxiety.
UMS show depicts paths
to radicalization online
COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW
ANYA SOLLER
Daily Arts Writer
NATALIE KASTNER
Daily Arts Writer
The Goop Lab
Season 1, Ep. 1-3
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