Word: tableau
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...move into “the forest.” Granted, I haven’t spent much time in the New England forest, but I didn’t recall it having wall-to-wall carpet. We assemble, strollers and all, in front of a tableau of Pilgrim girls dancing devilishly in the woods. Except that they’re not moving. At all. They’re made of wax. Strange recorded laughter echoes from a visible boom box as the wax statues cavort as best they can in their stationary manner. After a reverent two seconds...
Jimmy directs us to the next tableau. The hanging of George Burrows, one of the accused, is represented by My Little Pony-sized figures. A doll version of Burrows hangs from a good three inches of string. I look closely. There’s no blood. The doll is smiling. Before we can take it in, a new tour guide has replaced Jimmy. “My name is Laura and I’m going to see you through to the end. On your left, you’ll see a witch...
...Texas cop with sunbaked skin grimly appraises the wedding-chapel murder scene. Nine, 10 bodies--an entire bridal party, including the white-gowned bride--are splayed on the floor amid hundreds of spent shells. The cop detects the fatal precision of professionals in this atrocious tableau: lives dispatched cleanly, corpses draped just so. "If you was a moron," he drawls, "you could almost admire...
...accommodate 3,000 people in 55 rooms. It now houses 200 performance and installation artists from around the world, whose work includes rooms containing a depiction of Dante's vision of heaven, a reconstructed department store complete with sales staff to greet visitors, and an Adam-and-Eve tableau featuring an apple tree?and that...
...accommodate 3,000 people in 55 rooms. It now houses 200 performance and installation artists from around the world, whose work includes rooms containing a depiction of Dante's vision of heaven, a reconstructed department store complete with sales staff to greet visitors, and an Adam-and-Eve tableau featuring an apple tree - and that boa. After Alexander-platz, the Römers will take the Paradise Project to under-ground sites in Prague, Stockholm, Moscow and other European cities with subterranean shelters. Heaven may be coming soon to a bunker near...