Word: jigsaw
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...science really a "pampered sacred cow"? How do you think it feels to work in a country that spends less on its national observatories than it does on jigsaw puzzles...
...exhibit Faculty '76, like the statute of John Harvard, isn't what it calls itself. First, this collection of the work of some sixteen members of the Visual and Environmental Studies department--at the Carpenter Center through December 31--isn't one exhibit but pieces of 16 different jigsaw puzzles, none of which interlock...
...hospital. Her son, the author, comes to her side, and discovers that in spite of his 70 years he doesn't understand her. In the week that passes before death arrives, he tries to penetrate to the "truth" of his mother and of their bond, to "solve" that cliched jigsaw puzzle of filial love. Sitting silently across from her, he tortures himself with questions: "Why did my mother distrust me?"; "Why did she marry my father?"; "What was her youth like?"; "What did she think when...
...ANGELS (NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.), is a stylish period private-eye piece. Movies have been doing this sort of thing a lot lately, but on television the show comes as a relief from such doggedly contemporary cop shows as THE BLUE KNIGHT (CBS, Wednesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) and JIGSAW JOHN (NBC, Monday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.), which feature veteran character men (George Kennedy and Jack Warden respectively) in veteran plots. Physically, Kennedy has a beefy Tightness for his part that adds some realism to the preternatural goodness with which TV cops are currently afflicted, but who needs...
...Truliman. Truliman, a Long Island multimillionaire, arranges for members of the party to read selected portions of the testimony. Darby moderates and points out relevant pieces of evidence; placing the testimony in chronological order and marshalling a string of 92 "facts." These "facts" are the pieces of a complex jigsaw puzzle that Darby reassembles in the last chapter...