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...Chirico's city has been one of the capitals of the modernist imagination. It is a fantasy town, a state of mind, signifying alienation, dreaming and loss. Its elements are so well known by now that they fall into place as soon as they are named, like jigsaw pieces worn by being assembled over and over again: the arcades, the tower, the piazza, the shadows, the statue, the train, the mannequin...
...Republicans 21. Burton created two additional seats to reflect California's population gains. But he still managed to give the Republicans only about 18 safe districts, meaning that the Democrats could wind up with a nine-seat advantage this fall. "It resembles nothing so much as a jigsaw puzzle designed by an inmate of a mental institution," wrote Dan Walters, a columnist for the Sacramento Union. Said Burton with a shrug: "It's my contribution to modern...
...Detroit policeman explained why he thought he could judge impartially. "I looked at Mr. Williams," he replied to questions during jury selection. "I looked at his mother and father. No one knows if that man is guilty. Nobody's heard the evidence." As the prosecution began assembling its "jigsaw puzzle" of evidence last week, the defense appeared to be pouncing effectively on some of the pieces...
...original work on the cathedral stopped in December 1941 because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But Architect Ralph Adams Cram left plans for the towers, which Bambridge now consults in a dungeon-like room under the bishop's office. "It's like a giant jigsaw puzzle," he explains, pottering around in a pair of tartan carpet slippers. Bambridge makes large drawings of the more complicated bits-perpendicular tracery, buttresses, gables, turrets and pinnacles. From the blueprints, he designs each stone individually on a numbered job card marked with height, width, length. There is also a scale...
Most anthropological theory is based upon fragmentary evidence: a femur here, an incisor there. But what Johanson found needed no jigsaw reconstruction. The collection of dozens of bones was literally the skeleton in Homo sapiens' closet. Nicknamed Lucy (because the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing on a tape machine in the expedition's camp), the original owner of the bones was not the most prepossessing of creatures. She stood about 3½ ft. tall and had a head the size of a softball. But despite her size, Lucy turned...