Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the Pulitzer, however, he had to deal not only with acclaim but also with the critical focus that comes with fame. Some journalists in South Africa called his prize a "fluke," alleging that he had somehow set up the tableau. Others questioned his ethics. "The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering," said the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, "might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene." Even some of Carter's friends wondered aloud why he had not helped the girl...
What's unusual about this tableau, however, is that the Wilhelmis are German. Home for this white couple and their American-born, black children is Flensburg, a city north of Hamburg and an ocean's divide from U.S. soil. Had the Wilhelmis been Americans from another U.S. state, they could not have removed the children from Pennsylvania without complying first with the terms of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. That means a review of their paperwork in both Pennsylvania and their home state, a process that typically takes up to two weeks. Instead the Wilhelmis had only...
...dazzling image can be enough to make an otherwise competent production unforgettable, and the Medea that has been imported to Broadway from London climaxes with an astonishing tableau. After wreaking the most comprehensive revenge that a scorned wife has ever devised -- slaying her cheating husband's royal fiance and soon-to-be father-in-law, then slaughtering her sons so her husband's bloodline will die with him -- Medea sets sail for a new life. Most stagings leave her outside her home merely talking of departure. In director Jonathan Kent's version, a wall topples to reveal Diana Rigg apparently...
That lyrical tableau is no longer to be seen. Four years ago, the lords of figure skating eliminated school figures - the art of laying down perfect circles and then retracing the etching exactly - from competitions. The decision changed the nature of the sport - and brought whoops of joy from would-be champions. Now they could concentrate on flashy leaps and spins; certain skaters - Nancy Kerrigan among them - who had trouble with patchwork could surge ahead...
WASHINGTON -- For its holiday window displays, the Macy's flagship store in Manhattan chose to create White House Christmas scenes, but one tableau, featuring Chelsea Clinton reading in bed, is missing: the White House objected to it, and the store had it removed. The Clintons have also decided that Chelsea will not appear on their Christmas cards...