Word: tableau
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Jackson held a press conference the next day and hit every network, presenting the tableau that the drama had been missing: the repentant father, the angry mother, the isolated daughter. The story needed its cleansing ritual of contrition and penitence and absolution. That was a high bar for Clinton to clear: a coerced confession doesn't count as much as a voluntary one, but he very deliberately chose not to give that back in January, when there was still a chance the lies might work. Still, if Clinton's sex life was his own business and not ours, then...
...limits." Who is Fritzner? It turns out that he is a Haitian folk artist who was born on July 18, 1938 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was leather tanner, like his father before him, until 1972, when at the age of 34 he painted his first tableau. He has been an artist ever since. Fritzner is part of a generation of Haitian artists to be influenced by the Centre d' Arte, which was founded in 1944. As The Art of Haiti webpage explains, the founders of the Centre d'Arte" were completely artistically untrained....Their subjects were most often...
...meant to be seen; indeed, all of us in this jumbled tableau of naked skin have volunteered for the exhibit. But you sorry lot with your flash photography and your jostling to get a better view--you may see the art, but we, the streakers of Harvard Yard, we get to be the art. We are the intermediaries between your smoldering spirit, your shackled freedom and their ultimate fulfillment. What we do, we do for you--but we also do it against you, and, ultimately, without...
...tableau last Tuesday night at Turner Field in Atlanta had a richness that had nothing to do with Huizenga's money. There was Bobby Bonilla hugging Leyland, his old Pittsburgh manager. There was rookie pitcher Livan Hernandez, the Cuban defector who was the NLCS MVP, climbing into a knot of Marlin fans in the stands and shouting two of the few English words he knows, "World Series! World Series!" And an hour after the game, there was Huizenga taking a victory lap around the bases...
...displayed in spectacular proportions in stadiums across the country, last year congregating an average of 50,000 men at each of 22 sites for a total of 1.1 million souls. Male souls always, for the Promise Keepers are intent on carving God's masculine face back onto the spiritual tableau where they believe the model of divine fatherhood has eroded. The seven-year-old organization boasts annual revenues of $87 million, a two-story brick headquarters in Denver and 360 paid staff members, and it is out to retake male responsibility--and re-establish male leadership--in a country that...