Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only once has Gage used his eye effectively: when the four lead animals, carrying candles, slink through an underground passage in front of a banquet table draped with silhouetted ferrets, stoats and weasels in tableau...
...Albany last week, New York state legislators were confronted with a blue-and-white 1,039-page volume that could best be described as imposing. It imposed on New York taxpayers a 1967 budget of nearly $4.7 billion, biggest ever proposed for any state in the Union. The same tableau, with only slight variations, was repeated in statehouses across the country. For if January is the season of inauguration euphoria and soaring phrases, February is the time of budgetary reality and boring figures...
There is too much burlesquing by the women in the play, but as they do it well it isn't fair to carp. Denise Girouard as Mrs. Boef, wife of a rhinoceros, is the most skillful of the lot. She is a master of the tableau vivant, always finding the right arch of leg or arm to drag comedy out of stage direction. Sara Salisbury plays Daisy, the secretary in Berenger's office, and she looks like a secretary, which is some achievement in Cambridge. Miss Salisbury has the good sense not to overdo her girlishness and pucker-pout...
...flowing hair, since the decency laws forbade public flagellation -- and here with a lash of six flat leather tails. Marat sinks into darkness and confronts the ghosts of his past, who slander his childhood, and Voltaire and Lavoisier, who mock his scientific achievements -- all played by a writhing tableau of mental patients...
Here's the action: maid Celestine (Moreau) arrives in Normandy from Paris, to work at a manor. Immediately begins a tableau of lives ruled and twisted by the sexual impulse. The lady of the manor is conspicuously frigid, her husband (brilliantly acted by Michel Piccoli) comically virile. "Watch out for that guv." Celestine is warned, "with him: one shot--POW!--a baby...