Word: jigsaw
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Each uncovered report is another piece in the Vietnamization jigsaw puzzle, providing a glimpse of what is to come...
...sift and poke through the piles, plucking out individual strips and pasting them on pieces of cardboard. Nobody turns on the air conditioners; the breeze might scatter the strips. The workers labor intently for six hours daily through the heat and tedium, picking and pasting like finalists in a jigsaw puzzle Olympics...
When practical jokes palled, there were a myriad of other diversions: canasta and cribbage, songfests with Sisto and Douglass on guitars, jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, model building, knitting, reading and a discothèque. Baer, a devout Presbyterian, read his Bible a great deal when not poring over his notes on the testimony. A few, like Sisto, were genuinely enthralled by the enforced camaraderie. As he put it later: "I miss the friendship. I always felt like I could go knock on someone's door and talk any time of the day or night, just like when...
Since the 1935 legislation, additions were made in an unending series, from food distribution to public housing and rent supplements, until the whole began to seem like a giant jigsaw puzzle with parts that would not fit together. Several of the programs have been successful, and are almost universally accepted. Few today would question Social Security retirement benefits; while Medicare had a troubled beginning, it helped establish the principle of national health insurance, which is now substantially backed by both Republicans and Democrats. Yet the whole vast structure remains patched, haphazard and almost impossible to grasp, let alone control?...
...movie is one of those carefully jumbled jigsaw puzzles and comes complete with a rushed, not totally satisfactory explanation...