Word: tableau
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...made a visual feast. Now and again you would catch sight of a peach-clad boy on an Appaloosa cutting through the Chinese tallow trees, or a scarlet lad standing on his saddle, dancing on a bay. Five young women gotten up as golden harlots were included in the tableau as an easy taunting symbol for the youths: do not touch, even if you are not yourself...
...opening tableau the Woman genuflects in the best Oriental fashion in front of the shrine she built to the Man's memory, as mellow jazz washes across the basement of the Chinese Cultural Center. The man stands on the red draped dais that engulf the Woman...
...fact he has a twinkle all about him. He stands 6 ft. 3 in. but is made even taller by an eruption of sprung curls that overflow his football helmet in nervous homage to a bald father. Dan Marino Sr. drives a newspaper truck in Pittsburgh, and a charming tableau of their autumns at Pitt shows a man getting up at 3 every morning to deliver personally news of his boy in the Post-Gazette. The Marino home is not far from downtown, the beery old neighborhood of the steely old prizefighter Billy Conn, so Dan comes from the same...
During the Los Angeles trial that ended with John De Lorean's acquittal on charges of drug conspiracy and possession, a striking tableau could be seen. At the defendant's table sat De Lorean, tall and handsome, boyish despite his 59 years, as smooth and sleek as the sports car he briefly manufactured. In the witness chair sat his key accuser, James Timothy Hoffman, 43, a hulking, 250-lb. convicted drug dealer and admitted perjurer whose latest job was as a professional informer, setting up his friends and acquaintances for Government stings. When the obese Hoffman appeared...
Months of strain within the party-the bitter primary fights, the wrenching divisions between blacks and Jews, the philosophical struggles between old-style liberals and neoliberals-seemed to fade in that joyous, convention-ending tableau. Democrats being Democrats, however, at least some of those strains are likely to come back in sharp focus before November...