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TWOBYTWO| By Mike Shenk
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65 66 67The answer to
this week’s contest
crossword isan
animal.
Across
1 1969 role for
Dustin
6 Bond holding?
10 Way impressive
14 Greeting at
Daniel K. Inouye
International
Airport
15 Waithe of “Ready
Player One”
16 Its coat of arms
includes a vicuña
17 Capital quantity
19 Toronto paper
20 From the U.S.Previous Puzzle’s Solution21 Loitered
23 Put one’s foot
down
25 Auberge, e.g.
26 Measures
29 Line of clothing
32 Ideology
35 “The New Yankee
Workshop” host
Norm
36 School in Logan
38 Makeup of some
mattresses
39 Bridge support
40 Pearly gem
41 Contract
conditions
43 Jury
determination
44 Y wearer45 One might
contain bullets
46 Large-scale
dismissals
47 Burma’s first
prime minister
49 Faction
50 “Stranger Things”
monster
55 Manual reader
59 Fans’ hero
60 Opera that
includes the
aria “Sempre
libera”
62 Audition award
63 Book before
Obadiah
64 Conventioneer’s
badge65 Hook’s helper
66 Ming thing
67 Comes across
Down
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2 College mag
recipient
3 Hefty read
4 Golf phase that
deals with chip
shots and putts
5 Bumbler
6 One way to think
7 The Mississippi
R. makes up its
western border
8 Universal donor’s
type, briefly
9 Chichén Itzá
people
10 Maker of
Expression
scanners
11 She made her
debut in 1937’s
“Porky’s
Romance”
12 Country with a
Revolutionary
Guard
13 Consumable
coagulation
18 Old units of
electrical
conductance
22 Holders of lenses
24 “Stand” band
26 Faux pas
27 Seething28 Pitchblende or
coffinite, e.g.
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30 Marco Polo’s
heading
31 Physical
responses
33 Hackneyed
34 Diner sandwiches
36 “Topaz” writer
37 Site describer, at
times
39 Cycle starter
42 Talk show guest’s
offering, often
43 Colt creation
46 ___ colada
48 Oscar nominee
for 2011’s
“Warrior”
49 Sicker
50 Party platter
inclusions
51 Pale yellow
cheese
52 Norwegian
billionaire Thon
53 Hindu hero
54 Classic Pontiac
muscle cars
56 Fill fully
57 Coup victim
58 Vagabond attire
61 Enthusiasms
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The Young and the Restless
THE FIRST STARof “Animal Babies: First Year on
Earth” (begins Wednesday, 8 p.m., PBS) is elephant
calf Safina, born in Kenya. She’s just a few hours old,
3 feet tall, 200 pounds in weight, and she’s been in
her mother’s womb for two years—all information ir-
relevant next to the sight of her, which is both irre-
sistible and slightly nerve-racking, especially when
she tries, a few hours later, to begin walking with the
elephant herd as it looks for food and water, which
she must learn to do. The offspring of Cyclone, the
herd matriarch, Safina has much to live up to already,
and also something for which she might well be
grateful if elephant babies had the time to consider
such things—namely, that she has been born to a
parent who enjoys high status in the herd. This, the
creators of this extraordinary film emphasize, is a
proven advantage, one that increases the chances of a
newborn’s survival.
For the moment Safina is clearly concentrated on
her struggles to walk in the mud without slipping.
She falls repeatedly, and finally she’s stuck, unable to
get herself up. A situation remedied by her mother,
who twirls her trunk around like a lasso and picks her
calf out of the mud. A bit later on, Safina’s motherexhibits her mastery of the trunk to her daughter—a
vital lesson given that organ’s importance to every
aspect of the elephant’s life. She can pick up a tree
branch with that trunk and also a single leaf.
In this first of a three-part series, we next meet a
spotted hyena family whose members live in a fe-
male-led hierarchy. The filmmakers provide glowing
testimony to the hyenas as nurturers—dedicated
mothers who nurse their cubs twice as long as their
greatest rivals, lions. And we learn that researchers
have recently discovered that the spotted hyena ex-
hibits a high level of social intelligence. We learn, fur-
ther, that it’s wrong to believe that all hyenas are
scavengers.
It’s hard to avoid the suspicion that the filmmak-
ers, aware that hyenas, spotted or otherwise, don’t
have the best reputation, decided to make some effort
in the interest of justice here.
The episode goes on to include, among its spell-
binding babies, sea otters, arctic foxes, toque ma-
caques and, unforgettably, a mountain gorilla.Animal Babies: First Year on Earth
Begins Wednesday, 8 p.m., PBS‘IT IS ONLYwith the heart that
one can see rightly,” says the fox
in “The Little Prince.” “What is
essential is invisible to the eye.”
All of the blind or nearly blind
subjects of a documentary called
“Vision Portraits” would agree as
a general proposition. Where it
gets complicated is certain situa-
tions—sunsets, say—in which the
essential is best perceived by lens
and retina sending signals to the
brain. The extraordinary thing
about this film by Rodney Evans
is how well it conveys the com-
plexity. Vision is precious, it re-
minds us frequently. At the same
time we’re brought to understand
that blindness, far from being the
end of the world, constitutes an-
other mode of living in it.
That’s not to say that blind-
ness, or its onset, doesn’t pro-
voke terror or
fear. Mr. Evans has
had his own mas-
sive loss to con-
tend with after
retinitis pigmen-
tosa began attack-
ing his peripheral
and night vision in- This film, he
acknowledges on
screen, was rooted
in his anxiety
about whether he
could continue to
work in a visual
medium; it’s a
filmmaker’s effort
“to figure out how
to be a blind art-
ist.” Other artists
in the film have
done their figuring
in various ways,
though they share
a sustaining sense
of accomplishment—not triumph
over adversity, but growth in
new circumstances that demand
it, or else.
A young dancer, Kayla Hamil-
ton, has been blind in one eye
from birth, with minimal vision
in the other. At one point she fell
into a near-suicidal depression
when it seemed as if she might
become totally blind. That didn’t
happen, but her love of the dance
reminded her that, as she recalls,
“there’s some healing to be done
through this process.” One result
of the process is quietly won-
drous to behold—the dancer on
stage, doing a solo piece she calls
“Nearly Sighted,” while each fully
sighted member of the audience
wears an eyepatch over one eye
to see, if only partially, what the
piece is really about.
Ryan Knighton, a Canadian au-
thor and memoirist, says he’s
been blind for so long he no lon-
ger thinks about it very much.
“Blindness is a point of view on
the world,” he adds without
irony, “not something to avoid.”
STIMULUS PICTURESHe got started in what’s become
his life’s work when a friend sug-
gested he write about losing his
sight, but not something general;
make it “about being a blind per-
son in IKEA,” the friend told him.
That’s advice any writer will rec-
ognize as being about the value
of specificity, as well as about
blindness. The story he wrote
turned out to be funny, Mr.
Knighton recalls, and he was on
his way.
“Vision Portraits” is specific
too—about diseases that destroy
vision, and the still-shimmering
prospect of curing or ameliorat-
ing them. (The camera follows
Mr. Evans to Berlin and a center
for sight restoration, where re-
searchers treat him with a
course of brain stimulation that
may eventually—or not—yielduseful results. The film tells us
that blind people often see
bright light, not darkness. John
Dugdale, a photographer cur-
rently at the top of his career,
continued to work in his me-
dium, with help from profes-
sional associates, after he was
diagnosed as HIV positive two
decades ago, suffered a stroke
and emerged from the hospital
with only a sliver of vision—his
“crescent moon,” he calls it—in
one eye. He sees color con-
stantly, he says, his own aurora
borealis, though not much else.
He also says he looks forward
to losing the rest of his sight so
he can stop worrying about it,
and describes—here’s where spe-
cifics blend into invisible essen-
tials—a beautiful world of his
present-day imagination. “There’s
no litter. People don’t look tired.
Everybody looks the same as
they’ve always looked. Nobody
gets older or younger, every-
body’s hair looks great.” It’s one
way of looking at things in a
movie that’s an eye-opener.Rodney Evans, whose documentary looks at the impact
of vision loss or blindness on artists and their work.LIFE & ARTS
FILM REVIEW | JOE MORGENSTERN
Seeing Art Through
A New Lens
Blindness is another mode of living in the world
BBC STUDIOS (3)
The baby African elephant Safina falls over in the mud, top; the five-week-old white Arctic fox cub Fela with one of his
dark-colored siblings, above left; the newborn baby toque macaque Jazir suckles his mother, above right.