Word: puzzler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work in form. He can divide his brain into three or four separate task forces, attack three or four different objectives?prepare a script, study a score, work out a melody, amuse a child?all at the same time. His talent for patterns has made him a passionate crossword puzzler and anagrammarian (these days, though, he feels guilty about being caught wasting time, and hides crossword puzzles inside scores or books...
...that one hand is Van Eyck's." Authentication of the painting-St. Jerome in His Study, showing the 4th century scholar who made a new translation of the Bible into Latin-is typical of the best of 20th century art sleuthing. The painting was known to be a puzzler when Detroit bought...
Dizzy Spiral. Kubitschek expects his development program to help cure the inflation sickness by making more goods available. The puzzler here is how to finance the government's share of the program and at the same time slow down the currency presses. In the past few years, the government custom of printing new money to meet budget deficits has kept inflation spiraling dizzily. Retail prices have almost doubled within three years, rising faster than wages. Among Brazilian workers, the resulting sag in real wages has brought on a rancorous discontent...
...produces, in a clever courtroom scene, the full portrait of the crime, including the face of the killer. Actor Redgrave is the making of the show, though at times he almost fidgets it away. Kieron Moore, Leo Genn and Jane Henderson are excellent. It's a nice little puzzler, in a squirrely sort...
Just why anti-Communist Castillo Armas chose to hurry into such an obvious one-candidate election was a puzzler; it seemed unlikely that his motive was to try to force a rigid, Soviet-style show of unanimity out of the people. More likely, the election was scheduled to provide a form of constitutional legality for his regime before any strong opposition could develop. Ironically, all present signs show that he could have won a free and secret ballot just about as easily...