Word: jigsaw
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...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...
...weaving factories in the Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs--fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed into thin sheets and assembled as a jigsaw by gem cutters. Francesco de' Medici in particular, Cosimo's son, took delight in these because of his proto-scientific, alchemical interests; he was fascinated, like someone seeing pictures in the fire or Leonardo free-associating about forms made by accidental damp on walls, by how the grain of the stone...
...weaving factories in the Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs - fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed into thin sheets and assembled as a jigsaw by gem cutters. Francesco de' Medici in particular, Cosimo's son, took delight in these because of his proto-scientific, alchemical interests; he was fascinated, like someone seeing pictures in the fire or Leonardo free-associating about forms made by accidental damp on walls, by how the grain of the stone...
...deflated stock, and he had put aside enough to live on for a year if the family budgeted carefully. The Wus have cut out vacations, and instead of playing games on the latest souped-up PC, David and the kids are working on a less pricey 3,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. But the transition hasn't been easy. Elly admits that she had got so used to his not being around that she sometimes forgets to involve David in family decisions. The kids, while happy he's home, sometimes don't know how to treat him either. "He's been...
...places, the reports fit together like jigsaw puzzles. For example, Michigan had a larger than average decrease in median income, yet had fewer people below the poverty line. Frank Stafford, a University of Michigan economist, explains that workers in that state's high-tech sector took a disproportionately serious hit. That would tend to affect those in middle-income brackets more than low-income workers...