Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mardi Gras balls all conform to a traditional pattern. They open with a tableau or pageant, followed by a grand march led by a costumed king and queen. Then masked members of the krewe dance with women summoned from the audience. Finally formally clad guests who have been watching from the galleries join in the dancing...
...time at all, three reporters and a couple of photographers clustered around the little tableau, and Gannon flipped the diminutive lady into his arms as a coincidental flashbulb recorded the scene for posterity...
Snowballs flew through Hollis Hall windows early Sunday, while more ambitions Yardlings concentrated their attention on constructing figures from tech ubiquitous material. By late afternoon, the more artistic efforts resulted in a two figure tableau on the Bannister of Matthows...
...slight paunch and the Soviet Order of Victory on his thickly beribboned chest; he was Michael Hohenzollern-Siegmaringen, King of Rumania. Before him sat a group of men in tail coats and white ties; they were His Majesty's ministers, and most of them were Communists. The tableau was a remarkable manifestation of Communist elasticity. Young (26) Michael reigns in royal panoply over a state actually run by the Communists...
Most exciting shot: Bergman at the piano singing French-Creole songs to Cooper in a manner to make less stalwart he-men wilt. Most amusing tableau: the head-pivoting "parade" of beruffled Clio, followed by her grim mulatto maid, followed by an impish dwarf...