Word: tableau
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...dazzling image can be enough to make an otherwise competent production unforgettable, and the Medea that has been imported to Broadway from London climaxes with an astonishing tableau. After wreaking the most comprehensive revenge that a scorned wife has ever devised -- slaying her cheating husband's royal fiance and soon-to-be father-in-law, then slaughtering her sons so her husband's bloodline will die with him -- Medea sets sail for a new life. Most stagings leave her outside her home merely talking of departure. In director Jonathan Kent's version, a wall topples to reveal Diana Rigg apparently...
That lyrical tableau is no longer to be seen. Four years ago, the lords of figure skating eliminated school figures - the art of laying down perfect circles and then retracing the etching exactly - from competitions. The decision changed the nature of the sport - and brought whoops of joy from would-be champions. Now they could concentrate on flashy leaps and spins; certain skaters - Nancy Kerrigan among them - who had trouble with patchwork could surge ahead...
WASHINGTON -- For its holiday window displays, the Macy's flagship store in Manhattan chose to create White House Christmas scenes, but one tableau, featuring Chelsea Clinton reading in bed, is missing: the White House objected to it, and the store had it removed. The Clintons have also decided that Chelsea will not appear on their Christmas cards...
...American woman who, after following her husband to India, falls in love with a Hindu raja, The Holder of the World surely will be remembered as Bharati Mukherjee's finest rendering of a woman's story yet. There is no question that Mukherjee's creative use of a historical tableau--Puritan New England, Mother England, Mughal India--in her new novel demands a more intense reading than was needed for her previous stories of Indian women and their immigrant experiences in a contemporary North American context, but Mukherjee is doing much more than transporting the woman and her place...
...Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and so often a player in the Middle East game, seemed subdued, even misty- eyed. He walked slowly, graying head bent. "A stunning moment," he murmured. James Baker, Secretary of State for George Bush, thought time had done its work as he watched the tableau of peace. He had convened meetings, pushing the old adversaries together at Madrid 23 months ago. Clinton knew how much that legwork had counted. He reached through three rows of people to make sure Arafat and Rabin shook hands with Baker...