Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike from holding off the California Angels, when he plunked their immovable old leftfielder, Brian Downing, on the hip. Two extra innings later, California took a 3-game-to-1 lead and Schiraldi a seat in the dugout with his face in a towel and his profile in a tableau. But the very next day he retired Downing for the final out of the most remarkable game almost anyone could remember...
These projects barely begin to tap the King energy. An image arises in the morning mists, a tableau so powerful and intimidating that only a publisher can contemplate it without blenching. Every day at 9 a.m., except for his birthday, the Fourth of July and Christmas, a 6-ft. 4-in., 198-lb. creature climbs into a T shirt and jeans, swallows a vitamin pill, drinks a glass of Maine tap water and turns on some hard rock on WZON. He is never dissatisfied with what he hears: after all, he owns the station. With a few breaks, he will...
...simply a noise, very loud, then the screams of the people," recalled a witness. In an instant the sidewalk was littered with the bodies of the dead, the dying and the wounded. Shattered glass, bits of clothing and pieces of human flesh turned the scene into a grotesque tableau of gore and destruction. The toll: five dead and 53 wounded...
...liners fell like hatchets. Lucas at one point categorized one of his roasters as "a good example of what happens when a fetus does not get enough oxygen." All good fun, and afterward a group photograph was taken of everyone and every dummy. It made for a particularly arresting tableau...
Last month an elegant music store on Omotesando, Tokyo's Fifth Avenue, devoted most of its window space to a formal wedding tableau of Minnie and Mickey Mouse. Wise move. After all, Emperor Hirohito has been spotted in a Mickey Mouse wristwatch, and for 21 years the Mitsubishi Bank has treated new customers to Mickey towels, tissue paper and toothpaste, even Mickey piggy banks. Lately, the round-eared rodent has been challenged across the globe by snappy, snippy Snoopy and indolent, insolent Garfield. But the animated 58- year-old is still reigning over cats and dogs...