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...debut brings a touch of working-class humility to a genre desperate for it. On Brand New, Rhymefest and West trade verses, with West rapping about his consumer lust while 'fest advises, "Skip the brand name/ I won't brand you," and he admits that West, who produced, "hook[s] me up as long as I don't ask him for too much." These Days interrupts two verses about the monotony of everyday life with one about the competition: "I kinda like Eminem, he be funny and dissin'/ I bought his record, it's a one time listen." Rhymefest...
...Devil 2, from Thailand, is a horror movie so gruesome that two of the three DVD machines I tried to play it on rejected it; they simply refused to host this splatter-fest of mutilation. A fisherman catches a strange creature and gets a hook under his skin. Seeking medical help from a voodoo mistress, he screams in agony as fish hooks emerge from his body: his hands, chest, eyes! More elaborate mayhem ensues, involving a chic-looking teacher and her careless students. (What Cromartie High School does for boys, and Linda, Linda, Linda for girls, this one does...
...Into the stale Times stable Shortz brought both the best of the old guard, including Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, who had been creating cryptic puzzles for The Atlanticsince 1976, and some of the young geniuses, like Henry Hook and Patrick Berry, who had made their names at Games. And for the first time, the Times gave credit to the authors of the daily puzzles, who had previously been anonymous. (The daily crossword was the one place in the paper where the cult of personality bypassed the author and resided only with the editor...
...Wordplay performs a special service. It lends faces to revered names, the heroes of puzzleworld: constructors Payne and Reagle, Stanley Newman, Mel Rosen and Fred Piscop. (I wish I could have found '90s phenom Patrick Berry, to whom Maltby and Galli occasionally sublet their Atlantic cryptic page, and Henry Hook, the dark prince of cryptics and crossword editor of the Boston Globe...
...game played with smarts and heart. For me, the movie and its milieu induced a little ache of nostalgia. For a decade or so I solved the Times crossword every day. Then, in 1981, I discovered Sondheim's book of cryptics, and the devious, luxuriant word play had me hooked. Now I search them out in Harper's, The Nation, The Atlantic (where they have been demoted to appearing only online - shame!), Games and the book collections assembled by Newman, Hook and Cox and Rathvon...