Word: tableau
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...believe, for example, that drive-in banks are conveniences only for businessmen. There's also plain misinformation (the series opens with Negro women sweeping a street in front of the White House, though the Washington Sanitation Department employs no female street cleaners, black or white). The most amusing tableau involves the Russians' visit to the reading room of a right-wing organization in Texas. The plump, gray-haired attendant happened to be napping when they arrived, and he woke with a jolt that turned to shock when he learned the identity of his visitors. The two Pravda...
...quest of holiday firs, Lee Radziwill and Jackie Onassis led long-haired daughters, sons and dogs out onto the windy meadows near Henley-on-Thames. Besides evergreens, they found what Jackie always finds-a waiting photographer. He caught the sisters Bouvier, hair streaming, in a classic country-life tableau...
Harvard coach Bill McCurdy feels that quality nonchalance will win over quality discipline every time. However, when his squad sauntered off the bus for the "blood" meet, the tableau was fairly amusing...
...craftswomanly short story writer, Miss Arkin in this book has not so much composed a novel as arranged a tableau, then methodically violated it with sudden disasters. Give Miss Arkin a road and she'll give you an accident. Give her a decent storm and she'll burn at least one house down. Give her a lovable set of old bones and bingo, bango, she'll supply a fatal disease and buy the funeral...
...dominant work on display is a tableau featuring eight torsolike constructions made of wire netting swathed in plaster, lined up against a wall painted to look like a strikingly blue Greek sky. The figures are bound to the wall by strands of concentration-camp barbed wire. Another piece consists of a plaster "torso" wearing a bloodstained gray jacket, its arms flung out handless in the posture of a crucifix. Two or three blood-red cloth carnations sprout from the jacket's inside pockets. Still another assemblage presents a shoe embedded in a plaster block. Where the toe dared...