Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed, gifted Prince Potemkin, best-beloved among Catherine's shoals of lovers, "looked not unlike Charlie Chaplin." He got away and took a rest from passion whenever he could. Tableau of "the broad Russian nature": Potemkin, at the battlefront, in his underground palace, amusing himself, between attacks of acute melancholia, with concubines, an orchestra, guitars...
...came the tableau for which all Washington waited-the moment when bumbling Senate Leader Alben Barkley escorted down the aisle, to be sworn in as Junior Senator from Kentucky, the very man who opposed him in the bitterest of all 1938 primary fights, the fight which aroused national demand for a ban on politics in the WPA, thus resulted in the Hatch Act. Till next August's primary, Kentucky's Happy Man may wear the toga, if not the dignity, of a U. S. Senator...
...occurred which may have been the guiding star of the Three Wise Men, was no Stokley invention. It was originated as a Christmas program by Director Philip Fox of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, but Stokley improved on it, added music, a crèche, soft lights, a cardboard tableau of the wise...
...latest and largest works. Both were surprises, though only one was so entitled. In each, somewhat creasy and abundant nudes in classical attitudes were disposed on emerald greensward against a lush mysterious background. La Surprise, even more than Dans la Clalrière, suggested a Titianesque tableau in the golden lighting on the figures, a tracing of Rubens in the figures themselves. Though the smooth crispness of painting, the linked, rounding volumes of the design were the work of a major talent, serious visitors came away with a moderate suspicion that this $18,000 show piece would look its best...
...Oslofjord's deck, as she poked up The Narrows of New York Harbor last week and eased into quarantine, paced an authentic-looking Viking. He was Able Seaman Eugen Knutsen, burdened for a reception tableau with a shirt of mail and the weight of 938 years of Norse legend. At quarantine, Viking Knutsen received a visitor. She was Rosebud Yellow Robe, sprightly, college-bred great grandniece of Sitting Bull. Last week Rosebud mislaid her peace pipe but gave sheepish Leif a beaded tobacco pouch and the welcoming ceremony was over...