Word: tableau
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...plate with precision, as if a neurosurgeon were hurling darts 60 feet down a hospital corridor at a patient's neocortex). The spectacle has something in common with a bullfight - matador on the mound, bull at the plate, multitudes eating and drinking and whooping in the stands in a tableau of casual, ceremonious pageantry...
Each vignette offers its own special pleasures. In the first, a dancing tableau-vivant of the Fragonard painting The Girl on the Swing, brings a disarmingly bawdy and slapstick flair to the more subdued trappings of the period. The second, which whimsically documents the liberation fantasies of a 1950s housewife, manages to disperse comic relief so widely that the result is not tragedy punctuated by humor but a remarkably entertaining dose of bittersweet...
...tableau of seamless, often gorgeous image-making, it was the wobble of that flame that made it all memorable - and the other bursts of spontaneity that broke through the tightly controlled script. Many of these came with the Parade of Athletes, when not even on-field prompters could hurry the joyful gambol of competitors claiming center stage. As the ceremony's artistic director, David Atkins, later quipped, "You can't get Brazil to march in straight lines." Then, as the evening moved into overdrive, there was diva Tina Arena's deep breath, and wink to the orchestra, before she launched...
...Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Senator Edward Kennedy took the Staples Center stage to uproarious applause, bringing with them the benevolent ghosts of 1960, a whiff of left-wing politics and, oh, yes - the indelible glamour of the most famous name in American politics. The Kennedy double feature created a tableau many in the Democratic base have been longing for: A pit stop on memory lane, a chance to look back fondly to a time when the major political parties contrasted starkly in their rhetoric. Forty years ago, when John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic nomination, he stood before the delegates...
...tableau was arranged so the cameras got a long, steady shot of the Clintons and the Gores walking together down the City Hall steps, across the lawn, and up along an unusually wide stage. The President, accused of hogging the limelight in L.A., spoke for only six minutes, but made his point. Calling Gore "my partner and friend for the past eight years," Clinton told the cheering throng, "He is the right person to be the first president of the 21st century...