Word: jigsaw
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...sadistic Scrooge; on the contrary, he is an eminent and kind-hearted psychologist who presides over the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ. His laboratory is a friendly place filled with dolls and Teddy bears and jigsaw puzzles; blue-red-and-yellow rainbows streak across the walls. Along one of those walls runs a ten-foot-long two-way mirror so that Lewis can study children unobserved and record their activities on two videotape cameras...
...collapse. With the help of a computer contributed by IBM, each of the 1,300,232 stones was catalogued, then cleaned and chemically treated before being returned to its place. Thousands of stones that had tumbled down over the years had to be fitted, like parts of a brobdingnagian jigsaw puzzle, into then" proper niches. Even local mystics were consulted, along with the computer, to find where the stones be longed. (Sadly, 54 of the Buddha heads still have not been matched with 258 headless Buddha torsos...
Investigating the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II is like putting together a maddeningly complex jigsaw puzzle. The picture remains far from complete, and there is no proof of the growing suspicion that the Soviet Union, acting through Bulgaria, was behind Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca's effort to kill the Pope, or even aware of the attempt. But the latest fragments make the inquiry more tantalizing than ever...
...artistic administration, pops in to have Levine approve a "cover" for a sick tenor and to vet Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's request to adjust his rehearsal schedule next season. "Once we counted 40,000 castings arranged over a five-year period," says Levine. "It is a jigsaw puzzle beyond belief." He signs letters and heads into the auditorium for an 11 a.m. rehearsal of Wagner's Tannhäuser...
...princesses in enchanted gardens. At a place known only as "The Castle," she brings him fruit and milk on a tray reminiscent of a Cezanne still-life. Her lover, the master of The Castle, spends most of his time sitting in a dimly lit room doing a giant wave jigsaw puzzle while listening to whale noises. He also cooks fabulous French food and owns not one, but two elderly white Citroens...