Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named Sammy Click, who soars from a $12-a-week office boy on a Manhattan daily to head of a studio before he is 30, Budd Schulberg gathers in the stray and unconnected bric-a-brac which forms the composite Hollywood, fits it into a whole like a mammoth jigsaw puzzle...
...long-windedly complaining of the frame-ups that had put them in prison, Schmidt used to say, "Thank God, Jim, we are guilty." Bits of his story-the"true story" of the McNamara case-filtered out to different people, each having a fragment, like the scattered parts of a jigsaw puzzle. Last week, after 30 years in prison, death came also to the dynamiter...
...last word was "rosebud." Thompson (William Alland), the newsreel reporter, spends two feverish weeks in interviewing five people. Thompson talks to Kane's trollopish second wife (Dorothy Comingore), whom he tried to make a singer, finally established in the castle. There she passed the years assembling jigsaw puzzles until she walked out in boredom. Then there is Kane's rich guardian (George Coulouris) whom Kane hated; Kane's general manager (Everett Sloan), the sad, loyal, philosophical Jew who stuck by to the end; his former drama editor and best friend (Joseph Gotten) with whom Kane broke after...
...Bucky, a Bach minuet for an encore. His able accompanist-pretty Mme. Gaby Casadesus, wife of Concert Pianist Robert Casadesus (unpronounceable, rhymes roughly with "has a canoe")-rippled discreetly at the piano. Dr. Einstein proved that he could play a slow melody with feeling, turn a trill with elegance, jigsaw on occasion. The audience applauded warmly. Fiddler Einstein smiled his broad and gentle smile, glanced at his watch in fourth-dimensional worriment, played his encore, peered at the watch again, retired. The refugee children stood to get about...
...vases continuing with few gaps through 5,000 years, from the Stone Age down to late Byzantine times; much Greek and Roman sculpture, including several "unique masterpieces." One of these was a twelve-inch ivory statue of Apollo, broken into 200 pieces, so that putting it together was a jigsaw-puzzle...