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...compounded by the issues of cuckoldry and class hatred. Many of Wyke's speeches represent Schaffer's view of aristocratic thought in general, while the real interest of the film lies in Wyke's relationship to the sort of books he writes. The details, like Wyke's all-white jigsaw puzzle or his fondness for his tiny Edgar Allan Poe award, are far more telling than all the derogatory epithets Schaffer can stuff into Wyke's mouth...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Crime to a Bittersweet Tune | 2/9/1973 | See Source »

...lone white stallion threads through the maddened crush--and an empty rocking chair balances a spread umbrella--and on the roadside an enormous pahllic stone keeps company to a vast vaginal entrances--and a movie crew dangles precariously from a careening crane--all culminating in a thousand car jigsaw squeeze outside the Colleseum exploding with volcanic glare...

Author: By Michart Levenson, | Title: Actors, Actresses, Whore and Catholics | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...brilliantly in The Day of the Locust, but no one has recently taken the measure of the neon void with such savage precision as Joan Didion. Play It As It Lays was a novel about a young actress, Maria Wyeth, crumbling into the pieces of a psychic jigsaw. Didion drew the Southern California landscape with poisonous accuracy, using its shifting scenes to delineate states of an increasingly troubled mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nothing Applies | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...best of the rockers, and "Stop Breaking Down" is a good electric reworking of an old Robert Johnson blues. "Shine a Light" is a gospel oriented ballad with fine instrumental work from Billy Preston and Keith Richard. The final cut, "Soul Survivor," sounds like a cross between "Jigsaw Puzzle" and "Street Fighting...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: If Mick Jagger's An Exile on Main St. .......Then I'm an Okie from Muskogee | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...extraordinarily productive Mariner 9 spacecraft. Still alive and transmitting, the 1,200-lb. robot has sent back more than 6,800 pictures since it began circling the planet last November. By patiently matching and assembling these photographs, scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put together a jigsaw-puzzle-like map of a strip of Mars extending 30° above and below the equator as well as an overall view of its south polar cap. Indeed, detailed photographs, showing features as small as 100 yards across, were among the highlights of the 15th annual session of the international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Image for Mars | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

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