Word: jigsaw
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...lord of this glass-and-concrete palace is a Jewish real estate mogul named Arthur Goldman (Pleasence). Goldman has a jigsaw-puzzle personality. He wants only a "kosher" staff around him, yet he indulges in acridly anti-Semitic remarks. With bewildering rapidity, his accented spray of words veers from the clever to the vulgar to the mad. In a sense, Goldman is the kind of Angst-ridden creature a very bright student might have constructed after making a close study of how Harold Pinter fashions his characters. Since Shaw acted the mentally disturbed older brother in Pinter...
...junkyard is a painstaking attempt by a new federal agency to re-create the "Silver Bridge" that once connected Kanauga, Ohio, and Point Pleasant, W. Va., and determine why the bridge collapsed last December, carrying 46 people to their deaths in the river's numbing waters. The ugly jigsaw along the Ohio may have been the most visible effort, but it is only part of what the little-known National Transportation Safety Board has done in its first year in order to make it safer for Americans to travel about...
Threading through the cloud of gossip and guesswork, the authorities managed to assemble the basic jigsaw puzzle from which the killer's identity-if not his motive-emerged...
...Plans for a new bridge on the old site are already under way. And while people and cars still travel the ancient span, workmen have begun the three-year task of dismantling its 130,000 tons of granite-carefully numbering each stone so U.S. builders can solve the giant jigsaw puzzle and put it back together. In addition to the purchase price, McCulloch figures that it will cost at least another $3,000,000 to transport and rebuild its prize. To give the bridge a suitable setting, the company will dredge a mile-long cut across the neck...
...could begin to make sense of the reading. The themes that interest the professor could be developed, the categories set up, the mode of apprehension crystallized, comparisons could be made, all with the confidence that a large majority of the students present would be in on the proceedings--the jigsaw puzzle lovingly reassembled before everyone's eyes...