WHISPER
SUBMIT A
WHISPER
By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke
©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
02/10/20
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
02/10/20
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Release Date: Monday, February 10, 2020
ACROSS
1 Depletes, with
“up”
5 Pod in Creole
cuisine
9 Theme park
that retired its
IllumiNations
show in 2019
14 Tall and skinny
15 Umpire’s call
16 Greek played by
Anthony Quinn
17 Bit of insurance
paperwork
19 Earlier offense
20 Series-ending
abbr.
21 Set as a price
22 Accumulates
24 Letters shown
in the “Wheel of
Fortune” bonus
round
26 PC panic key
27 No longer in style
34 Public tantrum
37 Hydroplaned
38 Writer Ferber
39 Novelist Levin
40 Charge card
charge
43 Tarzan player
Ron
44 Owlet’s home
46 With everything in
place
47 ER images
49 Work out regularly
at the gym
52 __ ring: foot
jewelry
53 Postgame
rundowns
57 Domed hall
61 Watergate pres.
62 Sigma follower
63 Soft palate part
64 Fungus on an
old loaf
67 Latish wake-up
hr.
68 James of “Elf”
69 Charitable
offerings
70 Catch by trickery
71 Prefix with formal
or final
72 Potter’s material
associated with
the end of 17-,
27-, 49- and
64-Across
DOWN
1 Worrier’s
stomach woe
2 Seasons with
crystals
3 Make official
4 Tackle moguls
5 Cancel out
6 Eccentric sort
7 Capek
play about
automatons
8 __ mater
9 Toll-paying
convenience
10 Sports car that
has two syllables
in German
11 NFL analyst
Collinsworth
12 Slender wind
13 Seasoned
sailors
18 “Hamilton”
creator Lin-__
Miranda
23 Victor at
Gettysburg
25 Chaney of
silents
28 Bone: Pref.
29 Pet peeves?
30 Saks __ Avenue
31 Mental flash
32 “I’m __ human”
33 Negative votes
34 Act the fink
35 First Nations
tribe
36 “__ of Eden”
41 Paid for a hand
42 Use, as energy
45 In name only
48 DVR button
50 Like a generic
brand
51 Designer Giorgio
54 Ring-shaped reef
55 Director Brian
De __
56 Like dishwater
57 Boring routines
58 Baking appliance
59 Fish in cat food
60 Preschool basics
61 Paper quantity
65 Grammy winner
Corinne Bailey __
66 PC alternative
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WHISPER
60 Characters.
Bare your soul.
Introducing
“Bernie
won Iowa”
“Music
is just
wiggling
air”
“Always
fight fire
with fire,
unless
you’re a
freshman.”
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SUDOKU
“Do you know what a harlequin
is? A harlequin’s role is to serve.
It’s nothing without a master.”
That’s not the case anymore.
Margot
Robbie’s
(“Suicide
Squad”) Harley Quinn is much,
much more than that, as she
proves in the new movie “Birds
of Prey and the Fantabulous
Emancipation of One Harley
Quinn.”
I had the opportunity to see
a pre-screening for this movie
along with several other U of
M students, and I wasn’t sure
what to think initially. I hadn’t
seen “Suicide Squad,” so most of
my knowledge of Harley Quinn
was
from
Batman
cartoons,
“The
LEGO
Batman
Movie”
and the internet. However, this
movie reveals so much more of
her character. Most people only
really knew her as the “Joker’s
girlfriend” before this, but in
this film we find out that he is
inconsequential in her new life.
She is truly emancipated from his
hold on her. She is a new woman,
doing what she wants to do, living
with her hyena as company.
In “Birds of Prey,” we follow
Harley’s journey in finding a
diamond for Roman Sionis (Ewan
McGregor, “Star Wars Episode
I: The Phantom Menace”). She
soon learns that a young girl
named Cassandra Cain (Ella
Jay Basco, “Teachers”) posseses
the diamond … and isn’t exactly
able to just hand it over. To keep
an eye on Cassandra, Harley
begins to teach the younger girl
all about being Harley Quinn.
She’s like a hilariously psychotic
older sister. Their blossoming
relationship is easily one of the
best things to watch in the film.
Harley’s plotline is intertwined
with that of other women, namely
Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez,
“Untamed Heart”), Dinah Lance
(Jurnee Smollett-Bell “One Last
Thing”) and Helena Bertinelli
(Mary Elizabeth Winstead, “10
Cloverfield Lane”), aka the soon-
to-be-dubbed Birds of Prey.
The fight scenes in this movie
are incredible. Harley’s unique
style of hitting people with
baseball bats and using glitter and
paint bombs is an amazing way
of meshing together femininity
with strength. She doesn’t have to
give up her glitter in order to kill
people. It is truly inspirational.
The other top-tier performance
in this movie is without a doubt
Ewan McGregor’s. He manages
to
play
a
hilarious
villain
without making himself seem
incompetent.
His
character,
Roman Sionis, is always sharply
dressed,
utterly
despicable
and sinister while wearing an
innocent smile.
Next chapter of the Harley
Quinn story empowering
WARNER BROS.
SABRIYA IMAMI
Daily Arts Writer
The genre of indie pop has
always
maintained
a
code
of
individuality,
given
its
roots within the psychedelic
movement of the ‘60s and
early ‘70s. It was celebrated
at the time of its inception for
introducing a new sound in
pop, while also preserving the
“transcendence” mantra that
stems from the psychedelic
movement. Its focus was on
connecting with nature in a
spiritual
and
life-affirming
manner.
By the new millennium,
however, artists like Death Cab
for Cutie and The Decemberists
shifted the aims of the genre
to be about the relationship
humans have with themselves.
They began to ask questions
about the fragility of humanity
in the face of a world that was
looking more and more hostile.
In effect, they changed the
values of indie pop from being
outwardly oriented and nature-
driven to introspective and
individualistic. It seems that
most people have forgotten the
original roots of the genre; it
hasn’t always been about self-
reflection.
Enter Dan Deacon. Though
the Baltimore-based musician
first became known as a highly
subversive, electronic artist
(the video of him performing
on local news from 2006 is
proof), he has since thrust
himself into the underground
pop scene. With his newest
record Mystic Familiar, Deacon
manages to craft an album
that brings back the earthen
spirituality of early indie pop
while also diving deep into his
own personal anxieties.
Throughout
the
record,
there
is
an
emphasis
on
impermanence,
particularly
death and old age. With Deacon
nearing his 40s, it isn’t all that
surprising that these matters
are occupying his thoughts.
Mystic Familiar acts as a sort
of
therapeutic
solution
to
these ideas that have been
tormenting him. The spiritual
essence
of
nature
combats
the questions that haunt him.
He’s trying to, as the opening
track title states, “Become a
Mountain.” If he can convince
himself that the memory of his
existence is indomitable like
a mountain, then old age and
death become less threatening
inevitabilities. This idea of
combating impermanence with
transcendentalism is a perfect
marriage between the two
iterations of indie pop. Deacon
is looking outward to look
inward.
Dan Deacon embraces all
of indie pop on his new LP
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