Word: jigsaw
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Traditionally the jigsaw puzzle depicted placid pastoral scenes. By comparing picture with puzzle, puzzlers could assemble pieces by color or line, put the whole thing together in jig time. Easier to win at than solitaire and less demanding than a novel, it was a relaxing remedy for rainy afternoons and hospital confinements. But that was before Springbok Editions sprung its pasteboard version of Jackson Pollock's "Convergence...
...scene there was a nightmarish montage of "scenes of injustice"-a Negro lynching, street riots, the desolation of Hiroshima, decaying bodies stacked in graves -flashed on dozens of various-sized screens, some dropped from the flies, others held aloft by the chorus in a jigsaw pattern. While the words "And you? Are you blind like a herd of cattle?" appeared on one screen, the TV cameras raked the audience and projected their faces onstage in self-conscious closeups...
Among math toys is a two-piece jigsaw puzzle with a written number on one piece and a like number of horses or flowers painted on the other. Various counting boards and bars derive from the theory of sets used in computers. A small seesaw devised by Child Guidance Toys Inc. of New York City teaches addition and subtraction by using weighted numerals that hang from each end of the bar; only the combined weight of a two and a seven, for example, will balance a nine. Playskool Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, which got many of its long-popular...
Whether, as the believers in Europe hope, the stirrings of new national life are the prerequisite for a larger Europe or simply the jigsaw puzzle fragmenting hopelessly anew, the fact remains that Europeans are becoming more and more their own men, for good...
Breaking Down Gauguin. With jigsaw-puzzle patience, he paints, stretches, and inserts separate canvases within larger paintings, such as his Dyce Head, which goes on view next week in Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery. Slight variations in the insert's edges lend solidity and weight to the overall emblematic energy of his image. Ortman intends the circles, squares and triangles as external symbols; the results are bright shields of canvas, heraldry for a modern machine...