Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted to show the human body "revolving in space without any point of contact with the ground.'' After innumerable studies of figures, single or in pairs, and a few studies of abstract shapes, entwined like dancers, he produced a climactic picture (see color). It is a jigsaw of figures tumbling, hurtling, plummeting, yet all interlocked. As the eye examines them, they seem to begin to whirl, as if Léger had painted them on a pinwheel...
...Whitby School last week, the children, uninterrupted by any "rest" bell, worked happily, rarely disturbed one another, automatically tidied up after each task. To learn the continents, three-year-olds used special jigsaw puzzles. To strengthen muscles for early writing, they traced complex metal plates that also introduced formal geometrical shapes. To practice the alphabet, one tot used big cards with the letters pasted on in sandpaper that he could feel. Four-year-olds used cut-out letters to spell the names of animals in pictures; many wrote the names, and several five-year-olds sat quietly reading books...
...write a Western about good guys who are killed. For trying to respect Marilyn's simplicity rather than her freakishness. For writing about social incongruity and denying all the cheap patterns in which we believe. For admitting he's lost instead of finding himself a place in the jigsaw puzzle of cultural sterility...
...martini before dinner, poured from a full bottle of martinis that he makes up for the week. He usually gets into bed about 9 to read or watch TV (particularly shows with tobacco sponsors) until lights out at 10:30. Gray has few cultural interests (his favorite relaxation: doing jigsaw puzzles), seldom attends church (he is a Methodist), sees perhaps one movie a year. His chief outside-work interest is the farm, where he likes to wander on weekends, carrying a notebook with the vital statistics of his 415 Guernseys and calling them by name?"Emma, Brenda, Belle, Charming." Gray...
...suicide brother Pursewarden. Here, too, are his strangely ineffectual men: Nessim, the Coptic millionaire, in trouble both with his wife Justine and the British government; Dr. Balthazar, the homosexual cabalist; Mountolive, the stiff-necked British ambassador; and Darley, the Irish schoolteacher, who tries to put together the carnal jigsaw puzzle of his friends...