Others felt under siege as reporters, and even fellow immigrants, pressed for answers to a puzzle that only grew knottier.
As the search for Oshima extends to those who scarcely seem to know him — the location shifting from perfectly framed cramped interiors to dense city scenes and expansive country landscapes — "A Man Vanishes" kinks this way and that, growing knottier and more fascinating.
Internet-style name disputes began breaking out in the last decade and became epidemic during the dot-com boom; they are now growing particularly knotty.
It seems inevitable that the grandson of Sigmund Freud went on to grow a knotty family tree sensationalists like to say that the painter fathered as many as 40 children; some estimate the number around 25, but 14 children are acknowledged today.
Unfortunately, complex statutory provisions raise knotty questions of interpretation.
Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were tells Sir Ken's story from his boyhood growing up in the 1930's in Knotty Ash, through his big break into show business and then on to his unrivalled career in entertainment.
"How did five of them grow up to take on some of the knottiest problems on the planet, setting goals so lofty as putting civilians in space and transforming household energy use?" Vanity Fair.
"A couple of years ago, I wouldn't have considered it," he said.. Mr. Brûlé, of Wallpaper, who is based in London, said he grew up in Canada with a bedroom suite of blond knotty pine, adding, "By the time I was 16, I didn't want to look at any of it".
And it is easy to see why a writer as drunk on language as Bellos would grow so fond of "Les Misérables". For the English-born translator of such knotty authors as Georges Perec and Ismail Kadare, whose previous books include a deep-dive cultural history of translation ("Is That a Fish in Your Ear?"), "Les Misérables" represents the motherlode of French literature.
India regards China's growing influence in South Asia as a major headache.The leaders of both India and Bangladesh hope to make progress on a number of knotty issues when India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, visits Bangladesh later this year.
