Word: jigsaw
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...West End is "Absolutely (Perhaps)," Martin Sherman's adaptation of the Pirandello play usually known in English as "Right You Are (If You Think You Are)." Director Franco Zeffirelli, still sparking glamorous ideas at 80, also designed the production: instead of walls, he has grids of rectangular jigsaw pieces flanked by walled mirrors. The set handsomely visualizes the play's core: a puzzle demanding reflection. On either side of the set are two rows of seats for members of the audience - our surrogates in considering the scandal that unfolds, silent (for the most part) judges in the trial, or magic...
...drugstore he meets Manesquier (Jean Rochefort), a retired schoolteacher puttering his life away with jigsaw puzzles and piano playing. Manesquier is awaiting a life-threatening operation, scheduled for the same moment as the robbery...
...While other countries were scrambling for solutions, China continued to withhold data on the effects of the disease that has plagued it since November. Decoding SARS is already like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle in the dark, say international health workers. China's opacity, when it has about half of the more than 2,400 reported SARS cases worldwide, is akin to taking away half of the pieces. Last Thursday, Health Minister Zhang Wenkang finally broke a four-month silence to revise the country's death toll upward to 49?a statistic many local doctors maintain is still...
...quite convincing. Also problematic are Upadhyay's efforts to weave Kathmandu's political turmoil (the novel takes place during the pro-democracy riots of 1990) into a personal story. The complex sleeping arrangements are distracting enough, and the collapse of the state pales next to the disintegration of this jigsaw family...
...After yet another girl jerked him around, Felix P. Johnson ’03 channeled his frustrations toward a 1,000-piece Velásquez jigsaw puzzle. “One bitch, many faces,” he muttered over and over to himself. “And where the fuck does this fucking blue piece with a yellow spot go? Fuck you, bitch! You said you loved...