Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with his wide-screen technique. The telephoto lens sets small-town streets ashiver; dramatic lighting illuminates a face from no earthly source. The two Brads share an idyllic toke of "wacky tobaccy," gazing out at the rolling Appalachian farmland. Brad Sr. sits at the center of a Last Supper tableau of thieves, looking like Jesus looking for Judas. Every overwrought gesture, every pregnant banality, every brutal killing is elongated to impress upon us the moment's importance and sick beauty. This fetishized attention to detail produces some gorgeous picturemaking, even as it makes At Close Range a sort of Atrocity...
...Orient Express luxuriate forever in a reverie of richness. The burnished wood of the dining car, the deep upholstery of the seats, the soft, shaded lighting make the figures stand out in relief, their clothing a testament to social identity and design legacy. In this ravishing tableau, the train is merely the transportation, the setting. It is the clothing that offers a round-trip, first-class ticket for a giddy voyage into the past...
...20th century, however, that rates the greatest exhibition space and is likely to grab the most attention. Besides the Orient Express tableau, created from an actual car that was once part of the fabled train, there is an arrangement of hats displayed in glass cases and perched on tree branches as if the silken, veiled and feathered extravagances were so many nesting birds. A full-figured mannequin lounges unclothed in erotic exhaustion on a rumpled bed, her lingerie strewn on the floor all around her. A whole range of vintage Schiaparellis is displayed nearby in a kind of scaled-down...
...first highlights were a living tableau of village handicrafts, combined with an exhibition of high-grade Indian painting and sculpture, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington and a fair on Washington's mall. By the end, the festival will have involved some 500 events in 90 cities in 36 states and ranged from displays of sculpture in Cleveland and calligraphy in Iowa City, Iowa, to a demonstration of ancient and modern Indian science in Charlotte, N.C. Some events touch directly on politics: California State University at Long Beach will hold a seminar on the centenary...
Afterward he contended, "I'm not smart enough to really have the words to describe my feelings." But he is wise enough to know when a picture needs no caption, such as the tableau of the two Roses and the endless cycle that survives even plagues. "He's a good boy," Rose said. "Nobody's going to get mad at him if he can't get 2,000, 3,000 hits." He shot Petey a sharp look. "But you better." Rose did not stop at recruiting his son to chase after him. When the Padres' Tony Gwynn, 25, reached first...