Word: jigsaw
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...academy, as well as several twin-bed "art rooms" designed by young up-and-coming conceptualists. There's everything from the stark sculpture of Nicolas Touron (who has covered the walls of room 407 with 600 kilograms of "crooked ceramic objects") to the installations of Orna Wertman (whose giant jigsaw puzzles-cum-installations plaster room...
...example (167 in 2001), is downright puny compared with ours, but that hasn't stopped Henning Mankell. His latest novel, The Return of the Dancing Master (New Press; 391 pages), gives homicide a moody elegance. The victim, Herbert Molin, was a retired police officer with a fondness for jigsaw puzzles who lived in a remote, wooded part of the country. So why would somebody take the trouble to whip every inch of skin off his back and the soles of his feet? And why would that person leave behind bloody footprints in the pattern of a tango step...
...brings together myriad perspectives on the central torturer into a kind of mosaic. "It's a puzzle," as a teenage killer in one story says, "but a weird-ass kind of puzzle." A stained-glass window, he might be saying, catches a saint from the other world; a jigsaw puzzle catches someone far from saintly...
...peek. They indicated her chromosomes are all XY, yet she was born with an internal vagina, two testes and a "flattened stump" for a penis. "I was stunned," she says. Eventually Tutty got a copy of her medical records. "It was like getting the missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle...
Although L'Oreal takes a global approach, the company is keyed to the chronological and cultural differences of its consumers. The result of this market segmentation: a long-term global-beauty jigsaw, coming together piece by piece. "We're going to have to imagine things that appeal to both ends of the age spectrum and to very different ethnic consumers," says Lindsay Owen-Jones, 57, the Brit who has been at L'Oreal's helm for the past 19 years. "There used to be one ideal consumer. Tomorrow there are going to be many different ideal consumers...