Word: tableau
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...This tableau demolishes one aspect of what had been conventional evolutionary wisdom. Paleoanthropologists once thought that what got our ancestors walking on two legs in the first place was a change in climate that transformed African forest into savanna. In such an environment, goes the reasoning, upright-standing primates would have had the advantage over knuckle walkers because they could see over tall grasses to find food and avoid predators. The fact that Lucy's species sometimes lived in a more wooded environment began to undermine that theory. The fact that Ardi walked upright in a similar environment many hundreds...
...There were no harried, sleep-deprived students hustling to class; no stumbling revelers on their way to the River, braving the New England winter in hopes of forgetting a week’s worth of stress. There were only dimly-lit walkways surrounded by trees and history, a picturesque tableau that someone with an engaging and fulfilling college career ahead of them would find easy to imagine...
...sexed up, Bogotá is emerging as an attractive destination for the first time in decades. Located nearly two miles high in the verdant Andes, the Colombian capital may be shrouded by balmy mountain mists, but it's shaking off a long period of isolation to reveal a sophisticated tableau of art, architecture and action. Cartagena - the UNESCO-lauded seafront town an hour's flight north of Bogotá - used to be the only place visited by many of Colombia's 2 million annual tourists. But Bogotá's beefed-up security means that visitors are no longer bypassing...
Long before television and the Internet, graphic battlefield photos by Mathew Brady's corps of war photographers made their way into homes through photo-album books. (In Timothy O'Sullivan's 1863 Gettysburg tableau A Harvest of Death, you can practically hear the flies buzz over the bloated corpses.) The U.S. censored war photos during World War I, a policy that continued into World War II. But in 1943, President Roosevelt reversed the ban, believing Americans, unaware of the war's high cost, were becoming complacent. Vietnam, a generation later, was the media's war. Television broadcasts and searing photographs...
...from the endless bloodshed. "Because war is too hard, it is the artist's duty to create beauty," says Pham Thanh Tam. "I wanted to convey uplifting, spiritual feelings and fragile emotions." His delicate pencil sketch Carrying the Mail Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail (1968) captures an everyday tableau but poignantly so. In other pieces, iridescent young men and women in traditional dress perform the quotidian chores of transporting water and collecting wood...