Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tightly knit Bush family, on the other hand, is clearly a source of joy and strength to the Vice President. When the three generations gather at their summer home in Maine, they spill off the veranda like an all-American tableau. Barbara Bush, mother of five, grandmother of ten, helpmate of 43 years, has the expectant look of a First Lady in training, holding the Nancy Reagan gaze before there was a Nancy Reagan gaze...
...never yields any news, only the ritual impression that l) Donaldson is a loud, obnoxious reporter; and 2) the President is a nice guy with a crinkling smile who would be happy to oblige even the cretins of the press, if it weren't for that darned helicopter. The tableau is as inevitable as Hamlet contemplating Yorick's skull in the final...
...streets raged on, and in the hall Ribicoff reprimanded Daley in a tableau that symbolized the end of the rule of the back room and the boss in the Democratic Party. From that day on, the Democratic Party, carrying with it the G.O.P., would struggle to institutionalize the "open democracy" that was one of the ideals of 1968. Each step of the way, with each new reform and primary rule, the process would become messier and more unwieldy. As a result, the party leaders chosen by the back-room bosses, people like John Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, were succeeded...
...subject is food. One piece, which she privately calls "Bulimia at the Beach," depicts a repulsive mixture of vegetable soup and crushed cupcakes. Sherman appears only in a reflection in the mirrored sunglasses on the sand. In her most recent photographs, Sherman is completely absent from the tableau. She has surrendered her "canvas" entirely to a mixture of hotdogs and wind-up toys in one, and a mask full of decayed dog food in another...
...will not give his last name because he fears reprisals. "They want their own man in power, so that they can stay there," he gestures toward the hill where the wealthy live amid satellite dishes and swimming pools, "and we can stay here." He sweeps his hand across the tableau that poverty has painted: alleys filled with refuse, a dwarf and a blind man begging together and a troupe of half-naked children who parade by, playing their own brand of music on a series of improbable homemade instruments. Aristide's constituents...