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NEW YORI( TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD


 ALADDIN
BY TOM MCCOY / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ


 ACROSS
1 To the same extent
6 Something Pedro
 and Pablo might
 have?
9 Coll. program
13 Tug-of-war
 participant
19 Watts on a screen
20 Like some desk
 work
22 One of a group of
 Eastern Christians
23 King's move?
25 Only what a person
 can take?
26 In fine fettle
27 Process of sorting
 injuries
28 Gets browner
30 Start of something
 big?
31 Mineralogists'
 study
32 Anoint, archaically
33 Like some French
 sauces
34 Brooklyn squad
35 The two sides of
 Pac-Man's mouth,
 say
37 Principles espoused
 during Women's
 History Month?
40 Cry after a roller
 coaster ride,
 maybe
44 Together
45 Coward from
 England
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46 Ability to walk
 a tightrope or
 swallow a sword?
51 Land in the Golden
 Triangle
52 Part of a giggle
55 Pass with flying
 colors
56 Like the 10-Down
57 Soupcon
60 Olden
62 Finish (up)
64 Soprano Sumac
65 At the discretion of
66 Dream for late
 sleepers?
72 Identity
74 Car antitheft aid,
 for short
75 Informal way to say
 87-Across
76 Sheen
79 Chooses beforehand
83 It's all tied up with
 the present
86 Start to love?
87 "Certainly"
88 Collapse, with "out"
89 Waterway leading
 to a SW German
 city?
92 Way to l'le de la
 Cit6
93 Feature of many a
 Ludacris lyric
94 Add up
95 Slinky going down
 the stairs?
101 Dough raiser
105 Large family
106 Postlarval
107 Crimean
 conference locale


111 Over
112 Captain, e.g.
113 Confederate
114 Biblical book in
 two parts
115 Star burst
116 Neighbor of an
 8-Down
118 Dissertation on
 people's inherent
 spitefulness?
121 Chaperone, often
122 Treasure Stater
123 Human or alien
124 Some cheaters
 have them
125 Frat members
126 Drivers brake
 for it
127 Pungent green

 DOWN
1 Hold down
2 "The ostrich roams
 the great /
 Its mouth is wide,
 its neck is narra":
 Ogden Nash
3 Gave birth on a
 farm, say
4 Unlikely memoirist
5 Fix
6 Derision
7 1966 title role
 reprised by Jude
 Law in 2004
8 Neighbor of a
 116-Across
9 Inflame, with "up"
10 South American
 tuber
11 Touchy?
12 Tidies up


13 Not be bold
14 Commercial
 version of crazy
 eights
15 In-between
16 Cosmetician Este
17 And so on and so
 forth
18 Go over and over
21 Lost it
24 Letter between two
 others that rhyme
 with it
29 Like some care
33 Lacks
36 One who might
 stick his tongue out
 at you?
38 Long time
39 Agosto or
 settembre
41 Ed of "Up"
42" be my
 pleasure!"
43 Burns's refusal
46 It's widely hailed as
 a convenient way
 to get around
47 Frozen over
48 Entertains
49 Bemoan
50 Organic compound
51 Monastery resident
52 One parodied on
 "Portlandia"
53 Fangorn Forest
 denizen
54 Inflatable thing
58 Reason for glasses
59 Captain Morgan
 and others
61 Does away with
63 Layer


67 Action-packed
68 It has a light at one
 end
69 Roll of the dice, say
70 Up
71 Strip for a fashion
 show
72 Secret collector
73 Before, poetically
77 The City
 (New Haven)


78 Literary inits.
80 Nobel Prize subj.
81 Trousers
82 Racing boat
84 Sandwich order, for
 short
85 Scary word
90 Young Darth
 Vader's nickname
91 Evergreen shrub
92 Thumbs' opposites


93 Represent,
 sportswise
95 Lines at a theater?
96 Like Flatland
97 Became less than a
 trickle
98 Composure
99 Spiral-horned
 antelope
100 Mischievous girl
102 Social breakdown


103 Common dice rolls
104 Elements of some
 accents
108 "American
 Graffiti" director
109 Frigid temps
110 Like
114 Srs.' worries
117 Colony member
119 Telephone trio
120 Its logo displays
 all Roy G. Biv
 except indigo


FOR ANSWERS, TURN TO PA6E 5


MOVIES

FROM PAGE 1

 It had AFI's winner for
the best quote ("Frankly,
my dear, I don't give a
damn"), best song ("Over
the Rainbow") and best
fantasy film ("Oz" again).
"Mr. Smith" is a top-five
inspirational film for the
AFI, and "Stagecoach"a
top-10 Western.
 The 10 nominees for
best picture of 1939 have
"GWTW" (the winner),
"Mr. Chips,""Mr. Smith,"
"Ninotchka'Of Mice and
Men' "Stagecoach," "Oz'
"Wuthering Heights"-
and "Dark Victory" with
Bette Davis and "Love
Affair' which inspired
"An Affair to Remember"
(twice) and, by extension,
"Sleepless in Seattle."
 But 1939 is not free of
flaws. It was the studio
era, when a lot of forget-
table films were pushed
assembly-line-style into
theaters. Even though
Hattie McDaniel won a
best supporting actress
Oscar for "GWTW," and
the notorious Stepin



DADS
FROM PAGE 1
patterns and classic
styles.
 A final clue to the
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of her children?
 "Keep the dad in mind
when you go out to
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many women go into
the shopping experience
with their own tastes in
mind. Be mindful of what
your dad or your hus-
band truly likes to wear."
 And if that means
he's fond of jeans and
flannel shirts, like Dan on
"Roseanne,"so be it. But
that doesn't mean you
can't make a few small
tweaks to improve on
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 We offer a few styles


Fetchit's career was on
the wane, Hollywood
- like society generally
- was less than enlight-
ened racially. And other
movie years have made
their own cases for being
the best ever.
 After all, "Citizen
Kane"tops many lists
as the best film of all
time, and it's from 1941.
That year also had "How
Green Was My Valley"
(the best-picture Oscar
winner), "The Maltese
Falcon,""Sergeant York,"
"Suspicion" and Barbara
Stanwyck in "Ball of Fire."
 University of Akron
associate professor
Eric Wasserman, who
teaches film studies in
the English department,
has argued vigorously for
1974 as American cine-
ma's greatest year, point-
ing to "The Godfather:
Part 11,"Chinatown'
"The Conversation'
"Alice Doesn't Live Here
Anymore," comedic
landmarks "Blazing
Saddles" and "Young
Frankenstein," Dustin
Hoffman's performance
in "Lenny," and, most
importantly, John

that reflect the taste of
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dads:
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to have a penchant
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We think Cliff would
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Cassavetes'"A Woman
Under the Influence,"
which he considers a
cinematic game-changer
on a par with Citizen
Kane.
 "Woman' Wasserman
said, "showed indepen-
dent-minded filmmakers
that they literally didn't
need anything to do
with the studios to make
pictures their way.
 "Cassavetes completely
bankrolled the picture
himself and, by necessity,
actually distributed the
film entirely on his own
with no studio support.
And it still garnered
two Academy Award
and three Golden Globe
nominations."
 Overall, Wasserman
looks at 1974 and says,
"The ability of the
pictures of 1974 to
continue to influence
and more importantly
inform American film
and movie culture makes
it more significant than
1939 or 1941. I've heard
it said that baby boomers
are wrongfully attached
to 1970s cinema and
hold it up out of their
generational narcissism.

 Chaps classic-fit plaid
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This classic wool suit is
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back in the days when
Robert Young starred as
Jim Anderson in "Father
Knows Best" in the'50s.
 Straight-leg denim
jeans ($29.50 and up, old-
navy.com). What dad, TV
character or not, doesn't
spend his weekend in
jeans? Stafford points out
that like suits, jeans are
another item you don't
want to gamble on. But
if you know his favorite
jeans are Levis, or that
they come from a place
like Old Navy, a gift cer-
tificate with a sweet note
(like, "Time to retire the
ripped-up jeans, Dad")
would be a fine gift.
 Apt. 9 woven casual
button-down shirt Big


I do not agree. There are
a lot of things to criticize
baby boomers for ... but
their contributions to
American cinema are
certainly not among
them."
 So let's say we are
marking either the
75th anniversary of the
movies'greatest year, or
the 40th. In either case,
we are looking at films
that have endured. Each
year has a mix of drama
and comedy, of color
and black and white.
Each year has titles in the
National Film Registry
- including "Gone With
the Wind'The Wizard of
Oz," "Stagecoach," "The
Women'Young Mr.
Lincoln" and more from
1939, and "A Woman
Under the Influence,"
"Blazing Saddles,"
"Young Frankenstein'
"The Conversation,""The
Godfather: Part II"and
others from 1974.
 But maybe we should
be jumping ahead in
time and mark a 30th
anniversary, or a 15th. An
Entertainment Weekly
critic in 2009 argued for
1984 as the best year


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It's worth noting that
most items at Kohl's
were deeply discounted,
something that Dan the
Man from "Roseanne"
would have appreciated.
The character, played
by John Goodman, was
partial to plaid, so we
found a casual cool shirt
that would have satisfied
the character.
 Izod polo ($40,
Macys.com). We have


"when it comes to films
you actually want to
watch on a rainy day
playing hooky from
work"-from Oscar
greats to pure cheese.
He heard from so many
irked readers that a fol-
low-up piece presented
fans'arguments made for
1977, 1994 and 1999.
 Another film buff
used 32 great years to
create an NCAA-like
tournament, based on
12 films from each year;
1939 made it to the final
four, where it lost to
1967, which then lost in
the finals to 1999. (1974
didn't make it out of
the first round, losing to
1969.)
 So, of course, a mov-
ie watcher's view of
greatness is subjective. Is
"Citizen Kane" suddenly
less great because the
esteemed Sight and
Sound critics' poll ended
its 50-year hold on the
top spot in favor of
"Vertigo"?
 The movies we admire
are often rooted in what
we saw when becoming
film fans. As a result,
some have discovered


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good news for Homer,
arguably America's most
irreverent dad. The shirt
actually isn't too shabby,
as long as you keep the
mustard and ketchup
stains off it. It's just too
small. So a tip: If Dad has
a belly (mmm ... donuts),
be sure you're buying the
more generous size. And,
with all due respect to
Homer, consider some-
thing other than white. If
he's anything like the TV


movies'glory through a
generation of filmmakers
who seemed fresh to
their newest admirers,
because they did not
know that the new
generation had been
inspired by a previous
one.
 When I was seeing a
lot of the great movies
of the'70s, I was also
someone who had seen
dozens of older, black-
and-white movies, usu-
ally on television during
the pre-cable heyday of
stations' late-late shows.
Such discoveries -"The
Roaring Twenties" was a
big one are still in my
head more than 40 years
later.
 In that context, 1939
was indeed a pretty great
year, and it has movies
that serious film students
should study for decades
to come. But the list for
1974 is quite incredible,
too. The best thing may
be to forget about anni-
versaries and get back to
watching great movies,
regardless of their years.
 Or we could argue
about why anyone would
pick 1999 ...


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long.


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