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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Friday, February 28, 2020 |A

2+2=5| By Matt Gaffney

TheWSJDailyCrossword|Edited by Mike Shenk

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The answer to

this week’s contest

crossword isaword

heard in math class.

Across

1 On the nose

6 Net judge’s cry

9 Poetry’s

counterpart

14 “Same here!”

15 Bobby on blades

16 Stadium features

17 Olivia Colman

won Best Actress

for playing her in

2018

19 Financial wizard,

for short

20 Black Hawk War

tribe

Previous Puzzle’s Solution

21 Unrestrained

parties

23 Loafer, e.g.

24 “Max on Boxing”

station

26 Cameo makers

28 “Can ___ now?”

30 Suffix for

synonym or

pseudonym

31 Japanese lines

34 Russian leader

Vladimir

37 Cube with pips

40 Journalists often

have them

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44 Zest

45 Manila envelope

feature

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more trendily

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initiative since

2010

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61 Time

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sometimes

screened

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locating

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advantage of, as

privileges

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underhanded

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Hemingway or

Kafka

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casually

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4 Iowa college

5 Martinez with

339 home runs

6 One of two in

Tuvalu

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striped shirt

8 Ashes, e.g.

9 “Prioritize this,

thx”

10 Wakes up

11 City downriver

from Bismarck

12 Paraguayan guy

13 Kansas

congressman

Ron

18 Best Picture

winner over “Life

of Pi”

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swooshes

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Line’s “While ___

Still Around”

32 Can

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Judge Judy

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location

46 2001 Audrey

Tautou movie

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49 Gems in Coober

Pedy

50 Businesses on

waterways

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teammate of

Bryant

53 “Shall we

proceed?”

55 Gyeonbokgung

Palace’s city

56 Word on U.S.

coins

57 Hall’s partner

60 Strikebreaker

63 Clique

65 “Chernobyl”

channel

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WHEN THEdictatorship of Philip-

pine President Ferdinand Marcos

was collapsing in 1986, looters

ransacked the presidential resi-

dence, including the closets of

first lady Imelda Marcos. “They

found no skeletons,” a simpering

Mrs. Marcos tells director Lauren

Greenfield, “only beautiful shoes.”

It’s a startlingly candid, cloying

moment, one of many that popu-

late Ms. Greenfield’s “The King-

maker,” whose subject presents

herself as many things: pro-

foundly clueless about her own

campiness; oblivious to the klep-

tocracy that distinguished the

Marcos regime; unaware that the

media she once manipulated so

handily have become so much

more intrusive and unforgiving.

Her sympathies are fiercely and

shamelessly with herself, to the

point that she’s almost laughable.

And then, as the film goes on, you

realize she’s anything but.

As a documentarian, Ms. Green-

field has applied her observa-

tional gifts to the excesses of

wealth and the kind of bad taste

that’s achievable when one has

sufficient cash (in “The Queen of

Versailles” and “Generation

Wealth”). In the Marcos story, the

filmmaker has found her sweet

spot. As beneficiaries of American

Cold War policy, the anti-Commu-

nist Marcos regime controlled the

TELEVISION REVIEW| JOHN ANDERSON

Southeast Asian

Stockholm Syndrome

A look at the ways Imelda Marcos shaped Philippine politics

Philippines for more than two de-

cades, during which the president

and first lady allegedly absconded

with between $5 billion and $

billion, money that the impover-

ished nation is still trying to re-

cover—even as it seems to be suf-

fering from some form of national

amnesia.

“I don’t have an answer as to

why we allow Imelda even to open

her mouth,” says onetime political

LIFE & ARTS

detainee and torture victim Eve

Rodriguez. But Mrs. Marcos served

as a member of the Philippines’

Congress until last year. Her son,

onetime senator Ferdinand “Bong-

bong” Marcos, lost a hotly con-

tested race for vice president in

2016. Her daughter Imee is a sena-
      tor, too, and, as Ms. Greenfield
      clearly implies, the current Fili-
      pino strongman, Rodrigo Duterte,
      has been financed by illicit Marcos
      millions.
      “The Kingmaker” is a thor-
      oughly entertaining primer on the
      past, present and perhaps future
      of Filipino politics, but the princi-
      pal object of fascination is, of
      course, Mrs. Marcos, now 90, who
      is never not giving a perfor-
      mance—even if she occasionally

falls victim to the perils of the hot

mic. “Give me some money to give

away,” she orders an assistant,

who rifles through her own hand-

bag for cash. Readying herself for

a public appearance, she asks,

“How is my tummy? It doesn’t

look big?” It may seem cruel to in-

clude details of that kind, but you

forget worries like that when she

begins delivering revisionist his-

tory. “Martial law,” she says of the

period between 1972 and 1981,

“that was the best years of Marcos

because that was when he was

able to give the Philippines sover-

eignty, freedom, justice, human

rights...” The testimony of the for-

mer political prisoners Ms. Green-

field interviews tends to belie

those assertions.

Ms. Greenfield’s film, a study of

dystopian politics, doesn’t, fortu-

nately, presume to generalize

about the Filipino nation, though

there is no escaping a sense that

as a people they’re entrapped in

an abusive relationship they can’t

seem to escape. The director ac-

companies her subject on her

son’s campaign trail, where Mrs.

Marcos is greeted like royalty, and

in her palatial home, where the

walls are adorned with her Pi-

casso, Michelangelo and Fragon-

ards—works that vanished when

government investigators came to

photograph the room. Ms. Green-

field also travels to Calauit Island,

where in the ’70s the Marcoses

established a private zoo, import-

ing dozens of feral African ani-

mals and evicting 254 families.

Many of the animals have since

died out, but others have survived

and show the results of inbreed-

ing, such as giraffes with short-

ened necks.

It was so sad to see what hap-

pened, Mrs. Marcos says, when she

returned from her five-year exile

in the early ’90s. But as the man

who’s tended the animals for the

past 40 years tells the camera,

she’s never actually been there.

The Kingmaker

Friday, 9 p.m., Showtime

A portrait of Imelda

Marcos is a picture of

excess, both financial

and political

LAUREN GREENFIELD/SHOWTIME (3)

Imelda Marcos, top and left, and May

Rodriguez, above, in ‘The Kingmaker’