WHISPER
SUBMIT A
WHISPER
By Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau
©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
03/10/20
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
03/10/20
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
Release Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020
ACROSS
1 __-been:
washed-up celeb
4 Shared again, as
a story
10 Samantha Bee’s
network
13 Frequently found
in poetry?
14 One with a
hunger
15 Go bad
16 Citrus drink in
a sea breeze
cocktail
19 Philosopher
Kierkegaard
20 Dawn goddess
21 Bridal veil trim
22 Packed in a
slatted box
25 Like bath mats
27 Frivolous legal
entanglement
29 Prez on a fiver
30 “Cream of”
concoction
31 Lonely place, so
they say
35 Former
37 Part of rpm
39 Actress Russo
40 Bury
43 Frontier lawman
Wyatt
46 HBO rival, briefly
47 French luxury
retailer since
1854
50 Gives a hand
53 Celebrity socialite
54 One who stirs
the pot
55 Former flier
57 “Live” sign
59 2011 Dolly Parton
single, and what
homophonically
happens twice
in 16-, 27- and
47-Across
63 Night before
64 Most authentic
65 Generation __
66 “Lust for Life”
singer Lana __
Rey
67 How theater
seating is
arranged
68 Hurricane center
DOWN
1 Keeps to oneself
2 Early form of
Latin jazz
3 Like the most
twinkly sky
4 Boxing official
5 Musician’s asset
6 “Can’t deny that”
7 They might bring
you to tears
8 Releases from a
cage
9 Basketball’s
Erving, familiarly
10 Dry run
11 Italian lawn
bowling game
12 Pricey
14 Gossipy sorts
17 Podded plants
18 Coat named for
an Irish province
23 “Music for
Airports”
producer Brian
24 Bra spec
26 Med. research
agency
27 Tough spot to
self-trim hair
28 Olympic swords
32 Simulated launch
site
33 Taking a
vacation,
Brit-style
34 Lowly worker
36 English
“L’chaim!”
38 Sitar master
Shankar
41 Jan. and Feb.
42 Words
introducing a plot
twist
44 Road groove
45 Hit the buffet in a
major way, say
48 “Scout’s honor!”
49 Singer Turner
50 Played a part
51 Push roughly
52 Jason of “How
I Met Your
Mother”
56 Guthrie of folk
58 Like avocados
ready for
guacamole
60 Bi- plus one
61 Tree with elastic
wood
62 WWII spy gp.
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As “Better Call Saul” begins
its fifth and penultimate season,
it continues to inch closer to the
timeline of the “Breaking Bad”
universe. Last season saw the
addition
of
undercover
meth
distributor-businessman Gus Fring
(Giancarlo
Esposito,
“Breaking
Bad”) and in its most recent
episode, it appears DEA Agent
Hank
Schrader
(Dean
Norris,
“Superstore”) will also play a major
role in the coming seasons. With the
recent news that “Better Call Saul”
will end after six seasons, it makes
it much more intriguing for fans
of the “Breaking Bad” franchise
to predict the series’ endgame as
the plots of Fring, Mike (Jonathan
Banks, “Breaking Bad”) and Nacho
(Michael Mando, “Psych”) all head
in the same direction.
Part of the brilliance of “Breaking
Bad” is the observation of Walter
White’s moral decay from a nebbish
science teacher to the leading meth
chef of the Southwest. In contrast to
gradual character transformation,
perhaps the most clever challenge
taken up by “Better Call Saul” is
its utilization of similar narrative
arcs to reveal how some of the
most prominent characters from
“Breaking Bad” ended up involved
with drug cartels. “Better Call Saul”
spends a considerable amount of
time explaining these characters’
various backstories, which can be
frustrating at times — particularly
for viewers of “Breaking Bad” — but,
narratively, appears to be worth the
payoff.
We’ve spent the better part of
four seasons watching Mike evolve
from working the ticket booth
at a parking lot to becoming one
of Fring’s most valued security
officers. The conclusion of last
season saw Jimmy McGill (Bob
Odenkirk,
“Breaking
Bad”)
officially register to practice law
under the name Saul Goodman.
In these first few episodes of
Season 5, Jimmy/Saul markets
himself as a lawyer for those looking
to engage in criminal activity at
a heavily discounted price. Upon
being recruited by Lalo Salamanca
(Tony
Dalton,
“Sense8”),
the
following episodes find Jimmy
at the center of the imminent
war between the Mexican drug
cartel run by the Salamancas and
the hometown drug team led by
Fring, effectively placing Jimmy
in opposition to Mike, whom he’s
worked closely with in the past. For
the characters who don’t appear in
“Breaking Bad,” a sense of danger
looms on the horizon — even for
Jimmy’s current girlfriend, Kim
Wexler (Rhea Seehorn, “Veep”), a
more accomplished lawyer.
Kim and Jimmy’s relationship
may appear sweet, but at its center
their codependency is toxic. In the
past, Kim was willing to stretch
the ethical boundaries of her
job because Jimmy was worth
it. Despite Kim’s best efforts to
push Jimmy in the direction of
becoming a responsible lawyer, he’s
changed his name and the clients he
represents. Now that she’s distanced
herself from Jimmy — and his “50%
off non-violent felonies” deal — she’s
forced to reflect on how much of
Jimmy’s personality she’s allowed
to incorporate into her own.
‘Saul’ sets up an endgame
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It is notable that not every
piece of literature or media by and
about women is feminist. The label
gets used so frequently to mean
“anything
mostly
concerning
women, created by one” that the
word mostly connotes, at this
point, more of a sanguine, positive
approach
to
femininity
than
anything else. This makes Gabrielle
Annan’s use of the word to describe
Fleur Jaeggy’s 1989 novella “Sweet
Days Of Discipline” in a review in
The New York Review of Books
surprising. I’m willing to follow
this association, though given how
intensely perverse Fleur Jaeggy’s
work is, how much it seems to resist
any reading is not on its own terms.
The book is pretty much entirely
populated by women, to be sure.
The men appear as bemused,
slightly pathetic interlopers in
the intensely feminine boarding
school atmosphere. The narrator
writes that she “got to know
headmistresses, reverend mothers,
mother superiors, and Mères
préfètes.” Boarding schools are
places of total submission, where
every aspect of a young girl’s life is
itemized and subject to inspection.
The nameless narrator of Jaeggy’s
novella
recounts
periodic,
unpredictable inspections of the
cupboards the students kept their
linens in. The formal aspects of this
strict regime seem almost beside
the point, but the narrator does
recount a school where all the girls
kissed the hand of Mère préfète
before bed.
It is unsurprising, then, that the
girls increasingly only have this
way of relating to each other. The
plot of the book, such as there is one
(Jaeggy writes in a fascinatingly
atemporal way, sentences following
each other with little connective
material,
juggling
spaces
and
times) involves the narrator’s
involvement with Frédérique, a
slightly older girl who is able to
embody the boarding school’s ideal
of strict discipline more completely
than anyone else, so much so that
she “never needed to curtsey,
because her way of respecting
others instilled respect.” The
narrator starts noticing details,
like
someone
close-reading
a
text.
Frédérique
never
looks
in the mirror. Frédérique eats
“with her elbows pressed against
her bust.” Frédérique speaks to
herself occasionally, “moving her
lips and staring at something like
emptiness.”
It’s unclear what the narrator
wants of her, but there’s an
ominousness
baked
into
the
whole process. From the get-go,
the narrator says she wants to
“conquer” Frédérique, something
that in practice means a kind of
mastery of the site of submission
— the logic of boarding school
miniaturized and focused on one
person. It’s both erotic and not.
The reproduction of this imposed
discipline (and thus the reassertion
of control over it) becomes the
narrator’s way of relating to most
everything in the world.
EMILY YANG
Daily Literature Columnist
Emily Yang: Notes on
‘Sweet Days of Discipline’
LITERATURE PARA OIR
DAILY LITERATURE COLUMN
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It is notable that
not every piece
of literature or
media by and
about women is
feminist.
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