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...visually loquacious that a full retrospective would be indigestible -- he repeated himself endlessly, especially in his later years. And by the same token, most of his best work was done in those first two decades, before he got down to filling the world's collections with the wiggly-jigsaw-style images that he derived from his "Hourloupe" series of 1963 and that, seen in any quantity, are such a repetitious drag...
...identifying the Trade Center bomb to the inquiry into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which debris was scattered for miles. Investigators in that case drew a life-size diagram of the plane on a warehouse floor, then set about reconstructing it piece by piece like a jigsaw puzzle. From that they could determine where in the plane's body the blast occurred, because "the metal would be bent to follow the contours of the vectors of the explosion," says Phillips...
What we all consider modern times, according to Greenfeld, is a result of nationalism, an ideology which emerged in the 17th century and eventually organized the world into a jigsaw puzzle of nation-states. For Greenfeld, it is not industrialism, capitalism or communism that necessarily made the world as it is, but nationalism which preceeded them and set the stage for their emergence...
Understanding Cambodia has always seemed like trying to put together a three-dimensional jigsaw of morality, politics and geography. Some pieces are missing, some are scuffed and torn beyond recognition, some bent completely out of shape; a few fit nowhere at all. The picture appears to show a maze through which the country has been stalked by successive monsters: a coup followed by brutal civil war, careless U.S. policies, strategic bombing, a Marxist revolution so bloody that it came to be called autogenocide, international and regional power politics, liberation and occupation by a hated neighbor, famine, decay and renewed civil...
...Some experts interpret going into Somalia as a test that, if it succeeds, might encourage further involvement in the jigsaw of republics that used to make up Yugoslavia. The difficulty of ignoring the merits of Bosnia's claim to help apparently led Washington to plan a call this week for armed enforcement of a much violated two-month-old ban on military flights over the Balkan republic. Others counter that helping Somalia will ease the pressure to intervene in the Balkans by proving the U.S. is not stymied everywhere...