Word: tableau
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...tableau of a country disintegrating in civil war is starkly at odds with Nepal's enduring image as an enchanted Shangri-la, a place frozen in time. Yet it is the country's backwardness, so charming to backpackers, mountaineers and jet-setters alike, that lies at the heart of the deadly turmoil. Though Kathmandu has enjoyed steady modernization, in the rugged hinterlands the time warp that shrouds the Himalayan kingdom?according to the Nepalese calendar it is currently the year 2060?preserves a system of feudal landlords, bonded labor and a medieval level of destitution. The Asian Development Bank estimates...
...wrenching tableau. A brutalized Jesus is displayed by Roman Governor Pontius Pilate, who announces derisively, "Ecce Homo," behold the man. A mob, ostensibly made up of Jesus' fellow Jews, responds with a bloodthirsty roar. They fill a massive courtyard; there must be a thousand of them...
...Some of the footage seemed to show a road where an American military vehicle was covered with blood. U.S. soldiers were lying dead around it. Another scene appeared to be the floor of a makeshift morgue, showing a number of soldiers sprawled in a bloody tableau...
...back and let Dragone try to create a show out of Dion's songbook. "At first I did not know at all the repertoire of Celine," says Dragone. "I do not listen to this music. It's very pop-ish, so it is not so easy to find a tableau behind the songs. There is not a theme, except love of course...
...Rachmoninoff concertos, but Taylor impressed the judges with his interpretations of the Brahms concerto in B-flat major and Bach’s concerto in d minor, and received wide acclaim for the resulting recording. He saved Rachmaninoff for an encore, when he played the “Etude-Tableau...