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By Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau
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03/10/20

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

03/10/20

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Release Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020

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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

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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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