Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the Los Angeles trial that ended with John De Lorean's acquittal on charges of drug conspiracy and possession, a striking tableau could be seen. At the defendant's table sat De Lorean, tall and handsome, boyish despite his 59 years, as smooth and sleek as the sports car he briefly manufactured. In the witness chair sat his key accuser, James Timothy Hoffman, 43, a hulking, 250-lb. convicted drug dealer and admitted perjurer whose latest job was as a professional informer, setting up his friends and acquaintances for Government stings. When the obese Hoffman appeared...
Months of strain within the party-the bitter primary fights, the wrenching divisions between blacks and Jews, the philosophical struggles between old-style liberals and neoliberals-seemed to fade in that joyous, convention-ending tableau. Democrats being Democrats, however, at least some of those strains are likely to come back in sharp focus before November...
...will strike up Happy Days Are Here Again, the party leaders will clasp hands in the traditional victory salute. Banners will wave, rhetoric will flow. When the Democrats meet next week in San Francisco to nominate a ticket for the 1984 election, they will strive mightily to stage a tableau of unity and shared purpose...
...much athletic mobility. At one point the group stands in play, swaying and snapping their fingers to the music. The scene is so unusually appealing that for a moment we forget that there is any drama going on, and would be content just continuing to watch the tableau. By the end of the movie. Charlie has truly become the Pope of Greenwich Village, but--he knows and we know that his happiest memories will dwell on scenes like the playground, scenes that mix a tension about the future with a down-to-earth acceptance of inability to fulfill his dreams...
...Hampshire, Christopher Wilder's cross-country odyssey of kidnap, rape and murder ended in his shooting death during a struggle with police. In Texas, Henry Lee Lucas, who boasts of killing some 360 people, was condemned to death for one of those murders. Against that shocking tableau of recent criminal violence, many Americans might find it difficult to credit some good news from Washington last week: crime, said the FBI, declined more sharply during 1983 than in any other year since...