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. CLASSIFIEDS 734-418-4115 option 2 dailydisplay@gmail.com WORK ON MACKINAC Island This Summer – Make lifelong friends. The Island House Hotel and Ryba’s Fudge Shops are seeking help in all areas: Front Desk, Bell Staff, Wait Staff, Sales Clerks, Kitchen, Baristas. Dorm Housing, bonus, and discounted meals. (906) 847-7196. www.theislandhouse.com FOR RENT WHISPER 60 Characters. Bare your soul. Introducing “Look up how to make a long egg on You- Tube.” “Joe Biden has de- mentia.” “I’m swim- ming in maize money.” puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com SUDOKU MEDIUM 5 7 2 5 9 2 2 3 9 7 8 5 6 4 9 2 7 2 8 3 1 4 8 2 5 4 8 4 5 3 Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 3/9/09 10:02 AM SUDOKU 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 SONY PICTURES TELEVISION JUSTIN POLLACK Daily Arts Writer Better Call Saul Season 5 Episodes 1-3 AMC Mondays @ 9 p.m. TV REVIEW TV REVIEW 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 Read more online at michigandaily.com It is notable that not every piece of literature or media by and about women is feminist. 6 — Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com