Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warning against the misuse of "misleading mechanical metaphors" like the Domino Theory, Bundy nonetheless parried the jabs of his questioners. He sketched a tableau of U.S. interests in South East Asia that was for the most part similar to the picture created by numerous government press releases in the past months...
...tableau did not last long. Suddenly Karandas began waving his arms and shouting, "I will see him arrested and incarcerated! If it is the final act of my existence, I shall have him removed from society! And then, I shall return to India!" The bystanders seemed to voice approval of these suggestions, and only then did Bundie realize the awkwardness of his immediate situation...
...most important picture that Larry Rivers ever painted was Washington Crossing the Delaware. He was only redoing Emanuel Leutze's heroic tableau, painted in 1851 in Düsseldorf, which was in itself a pretty dubious romanticization of the past. But in 1953, with abstract expressionism firing off its salvos, Rivers might as well have glorified Benedict Arnold. Rivers was put down by the avant-garde as a reactionary, a brush-brandishing brontosaurus, or worst of all, a realist...
...back of a plastic hand. He studied 18th century treatments for smallpox at the Army Medical Museum to get the pockmarks on George Washington's face just right. Henry Ford's stature and eye color were taken from his 1916 driver's license. In a tableau depicting Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery being briefed by a weather officer on D-day morning, the weather maps used are authentic Government documents stamped "secret," and the uniform worn by Ike's effigy...
...times cooly rational, always active, aggressive, directing, he made his voice heard whether in power in the Commons, out of office from Chartwell, or in War over static-filled radio. And he prevailed. Despite the stooped shoulders, the squat figure, the pudgy features, we see him in a grand tableau of English history. He belongs on the field at Blenheim, on the deck of the Victory, in a hushed Commons because he believed he belonged there...