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02/17/20
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
02/17/20
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Release Date: Monday, February 17, 2020
ACROSS
1 Weed whackers
5 Annoy
9 Macbeth, by birth
13 Saintly glows
15 Impressionist
16 Lola’s nightclub,
in song
17 Like an old joke
18 Wind that’s worth
a warning
19 Idi of Uganda
20 Deer hunter’s
dinner, perhaps
23 Holy Ohio city?
26 Bridal bio word
27 Sault __ Marie
28 “I think,” to a
texter
29 Childlike race
in “The Time
Machine”
32 Learn thoroughly
34 Cutting in half, in
math class
37 Seine summers
38 Lincoln or Ford
39 Love, in Spain
42 Nearby
47 Fidel who
overthrew Batista
49 Aussie birds that
don’t fly
50 San Francisco’s
__ Valley
51 Diplomatic VIP
52 NBA tiebreakers
54 Sports team
swaps
56 Attributed
speaker of the
circled words
60 Medical suffix
61 Sentry’s “Stop!”
62 Swiss peak in an
Eastwood film
title
66 Eye part
67 Oil cartel letters
68 Iced tea wedge
69 Icelandic poetic
work
70 PC repair person
71 Avec’s opposite
DOWN
1 Suffers from
2 One of an
inning’s three
3 Pitcher’s stat
4 Soothing cream
5 Carol kings
6 Hoppy brews, for
short
7 Serious
criminal
8 Portmanteau for
a false ally
9 “Beat it, feline!”
10 Is remembered
11 Addictive
narcotic
12 Oil cartel ship
14 Started the
grass-growing
process
21 __ me tangere:
“Don’t touch me”
22 Place to park it
23 Ocean motion
24 Skip over
25 Age-old romantic
adage
30 A single time
31 “__ it my best”
33 Graceful pond
swimmer
35 “That __ fair!”
36 Fedora feature
40 Great Plains
tribe
41 Deli breads
43 Pants, briefly
44 Someone
who’s good,
and obviously
knows it
45 Skips, as class
46 Tel Aviv’s land
47 Sweet-talk
48 Got a smile
out of
53 Suffix with land
or sea
55 Spring zodiac
sign
57 “Insecure”
Emmy nominee
__ Rae
58 Knighted actor
Guinness
59 Draw with acid
63 ABC show for
early risers,
briefly
64 Long, long time
65 ICU workers
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I have a confession to make: Last
Friday was the first time I ever saw
“Titanic.”
It was my first excursion on the
RMS Titanic with ’90s Leonardo
DiCaprio (“Inception”) and Kate
Winslet (“Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind”) in all their glory.
It was the first time I ever saw Jack
and Rose dance below deck, talk
about their future together and spit
over the railings. It was the first
time I saw That Sunset Scene (you
know which one I’m talking about).
It was the first time I had ever
heard Rose in the future recount a
tragedy that none of her listeners
could really grasp the severity of —
and I don’t just mean Brock Lovett
(Bill Paxton, “Aliens”) or Lewis
Bodine (Lewis Abernathy, “The
Name of God”). I mean us viewers
in the audience, too. It was the first
time I saw the Titanic sink. It was
the first time I really understood
why it hurt so much that the raft
wasn’t big enough. It was the first
time I heard “My Heart Will Go
On” in its original context.
I saw “Titanic” on Valentine’s
Day, surrounded by elderly couples
with their arms wound tightly
around each other, crying quietly
as Jack and Rose promised to never
let go. As I watched the film, the
coughs, sneezes and sniffles of
Michigan in February faded away,
and I found myself immersed
in 1912 aboard the Titanic with
characters I had heard about all my
life but never really known.
I knew the story, of course — or
at least I thought I did. Jack. Rose.
“I’m the king of the world!” The
raft isn’t big enough. “My Heart
Will Go On.” Screen fades to black.
As it turns out, there is much, much
more to this movie than I had
thought. I didn’t really know the
story until I watched it.
There are some moments in
movies that were surprising when
they were first released, but as
someone born in 2001, I grew up
knowing my whole life. Darth
Vader is Luke’s father. Haley Joel
Osment could actually see dead
people. And Jack Dawson dies.
But here’s the thing. Tragedy
is horrific when it takes you by
surprise, but it’s worse when
you
know
it’s
coming.
You
watch “Titanic” and take in the
extravagance of the beautiful ship
with not enough lifeboats, knowing
that it’s going to sink. You smile
from your seat as you watch Jack
and Rose fall in love, but your smile
fades when you remember that
their ending isn’t happily ever after.
You see them, holding each others’
hands tightly as Rose lays on the
raft and Jack remains afloat beside
her, and can’t help but think maybe
this one time I watch this movie,
it won’t have the ending I know it
will. But it does.
Last Friday was the first time
I cried while watching “Titanic,”
surrounded
by
other
people
saddened
on
Valentine’s
Day,
choosing to spend it crying on their
partner’s shoulder (or in my case,
my roommate Sophia’s).
“Titanic” has always been one
of those movies I never really
thought I had to see. The ending
wasn’t predictable, per se, but it
was common knowledge. So I
figured, why watch this sad movie
with an ending I already know?
Here’s why: “Titanic” teaches you
something. Not about falling in love
in three days or about spitting in
Billy Zane’s (“The Phantom”) face.
Not even about the Titanic sinking.
It teaches you something about the
people around you, the people you
watch the movie with. That they’re
important to you in a way that you
can only understand when you’re
reminded of just how short life
is. It teaches you to never let go of
them. It reminds everyone of their
personal love story, not necessarily
one of romance. Perhaps it’s
familial, like Rose and her mother’s
tragic relationship. Or maybe it’s
friendship, like Jack and Fabrizio
(Danny Nucci, “Crimson Tide”).
Or maybe it is love. Whatever it is,
“Titanic” reminds you to cherish it
and remember how important it is
to you before it’s too late.
Love of ‘Titanic’ will go on
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SABRIYA IMAMI
Daily Arts Writer
The
opening
scene
of
“Clemency” is an execution. A
group of people gather around
a prisoner as a medical worker
places the IV into his veins that will
deliver fatal drugs to his system.
The room’s atmosphere is solemn
and emotionless, but there is also
a sense of urgency, a need to get it
over with. The ticking of the clock is
intertwined with the beeping heart
monitor as the people standing
around the prisoner wait for his
death to be official.
This is the reality of Warden
Bernadine
Williams
(Alfre
Woodard, “Miss Evers’ Boys”), who
oversees the executions of prisoners
on death row. Williams has thrown
herself into a routine when it comes
to carrying out the death penalty
to keep herself detached: using
clinical terms like “procedure” to
refer to executions, avoiding direct
connections with inmates and not
making any exceptions when it
comes to protocol. Yet, when the
opening execution does not go as
planned, the warden’s routine is
shaken, forcing her to confront the
reality of her profession. Writer
and director Chinonye Chukwu
(“Alaska-land”) brings us this dark
drama not just to tell us a sad story,
but to give us a window into a reality
that is present today, a glimpse into
the feelings of helplessness that
percolate within the people who
carry out this process.
The audience is given little time
to recover from the first execution
before we move on to another one
— that of Anthony Woods (Aldis
Hodge, “Straight Outta Compton”),
a prisoner on death row who was
convicted of murdering a police
officer. Despite media attention,
the ambiguity surrounding his
crime and the tireless efforts of his
defense lawyer, Marty Lumetta
(Richard
Schiff,
“The
West
Wing”), Woods’s execution seems
inevitable. The only hope he can
cling to is a chance for clemency
— pardoning a criminal of capital
punishment — from the governor.
While the pacing is erratic at
times, its somewhat lengthy quality
feels true to life, as the legal process
is often slow and arduous. As the
lingering emotional effects of these
executions impact everyone in the
prison, characters have different
responses. Woods shuts down,
becoming despondent over his
impending death. Lumetta, despite
many years as an attorney, plans to
retire after Woods’s case, unable
to find hope in other people’s
decisions and inevitably watch
another
client
die.
Williams’s
husband,
Jonathan
(Wendell
Pierce, “Selma”), struggles to deal
with his wife’s quiet despair as
she becomes a shell of herself, her
mental health becoming paper-thin
over time. While off-duty, Warden
Williams deals with her internal
struggle by drinking excessively
and sinking into herself, kept up
at night by nightmares. But as
soon as she returns to the prison,
she resumes her impassive front,
distress seen only through the
small breaks in her façade: a twitch
of the lip, an unfocused gaze, or the
hint of a bitter tone in her words.
‘Clemency’ sheds light on
dark realities of death row
KARI ANDERSON
Daily Arts Writer
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