Word: jigsaw
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There were no separate peaces. Only nightly shards of instruments lying on the floor of the stage like jigsaw fragments. "We're always trying to outdo each other onstage," Daltrey says. "All of us are a bit mad. We've stayed together for 15 years because we've never stopped fighting." Adds Townshend, "The Who's like an open book. It leads to a kind of unwitting honesty. That's what I think the fans really get fanatic about...
...brings "over $4 million." The three-day total, a satisfied Wilson reports: "upwards of $7½ million." The pub is duly dispatched, to be knocked back into the bits and pieces of wood and glass from which it came and shipped off by container-arriving as one big jigsaw puzzle. The transportation and reassembly may cost as much as the object itself. But, insists Dennis Gibbons of Grand American Fare, "you couldn't build a paneled room for the price of these pieces. You can't get this stuff any more...
...Sunday, the U.S. pressed hard on both. There was no dramatic turning point on the Palestinians, just "a lot of fine tuning and adjusting so all the jigsaw pieces would finally fit," said one U.S. official. Alternative proposals on language went back and forth for approval, options were accepted and rejected, but by mid-afternoon the compromise formula letting the Palestinians participate in the negotiations and have a say in the final status of Gaza and the West Bank had been adopted...
...vantage point. The first play, Table Manners, unfolds in the house's dining room; the second, Living Together, is set in the living room; the third takes the characters Round and Round the Garden. Though each play can stand on its own, the trilogy forms an enormous jigsaw puzzle: every time a character leaves the room to go somewhere else in the house, his exit becomes an entrance in one of the other plays. Through Ayckbourn's Rashomon-like device, the audience feels that it learns the whole truth about the people onstage...
Abrams also stands to make additional "millions," according to Stewart, by marketing many spin-offs of Gnomes. Among the ventures that are fairly well set: gnome dolls, calendars, Christmas decorations, jigsaw puzzles, stationery and a gnome home, designed by Artist Poortvliet, that can be punched out from heavy paper and assembled in a few hours. Licensing arrangements are being discussed with companies that are panting to sell gnome dishes, tote bags, pillows, egg cups and jewelry, including an enameled gnome with gleaming diamond eyes. Negotiations are under way for a TV special. While Abrams has resisted the temptation to cash...