Word: jigsaw
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...Moynihan argue that New York's example is not without parallel and that the nature of its ethnic groups offers a perspective on America's development and future. To illustrate their argument they first describe the five major ethnic groups and then try to fit them into the jigsaw puzzle of New York life...
...Sybil puts it, Owen has always been "a bit of a liar." Sybil goes dutifully up to London for the great confrontation scene. Finding Alex feverishly ill, she hustles the girl down to Oxfordshire to convalesce under Owen's roof. Nights, wife and mistress sit contentedly together doing jigsaw puzzles; occasionally they dissolve into helpless laughter at the thought of Owen's predicament. The poor, ridiculous man has what amounts to a personal harem, except that neither woman will have anything to do with...
...frame's edge was intolerable," says Still in characteristically irascible terms. "A Euclidean prison had to be annihilated." He does not frame his canvases because they do not end where his paint does. Some of his best adventures in paint occur close to the edges, where colorful jigsaw puzzle pieces are chopped off as if they had turned the corner into a new dimension. Other oils seem to spread relentlessly outward and upward like aerial photography of an erupting volcanic landscape...
...Like a Jigsaw Puzzle. That revolution is reshaping the comfortable contours of the world's industries. The age of science has not only had a vast impact on society, but has also transformed the world of business more thoroughly than anything since the Industrial Revolution. Business has always been faced with changing situations, but never has the change been so constant, powerful and full of hazards. "The flowering of technology goes on faster and faster," says George R. Harrison, M.I.T.'s dean of sciences, "because man's understanding of science is like working out a jigsaw puzzle...
This Sporting Life. Hulking Richard Harris is a professional rugby player who hits the big time in England but is no hero to his love-starved mistress. A jigsaw puzzle of flashbacks and confused motivation, This Sporting Life was better as a novel...