Word: tableau
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...holiday, flocking to Caspian Sea beaches and gathering in homes for the traditional meal, which includes apples, sumac (a bread baked on hot stones), garlic and wheat halva. At a palace reception, the Shah rewarded his ministers with handfuls of newly minted gold coins. In a family tableau showing the continuity of the Pahlevi line, the Shah, the Empress and the Crown Prince inaugurated a new TV station in Teheran. In his first speech to the country, the tiny Reza said: "My dear countrymen and sisters, I wish you a happy new year...
...distinction of having had his house bombed by white racists and his small chain of dry-goods stores boycotted by Negroes. At week's end, Nosser, Police Chief J. T. Robinson and Sheriff Odell Anders appeared at a Negro protest rally and took part in a tableau the likes of which Mississippi had not seen before. Linking arms with Negro demonstrators, they sang We Shall Overcome...
Only once has Gage used his eye effectively: when the four lead animals, carrying candles, slink through an underground passage in front of a banquet table draped with silhouetted ferrets, stoats and weasels in tableau...
...Albany last week, New York state legislators were confronted with a blue-and-white 1,039-page volume that could best be described as imposing. It imposed on New York taxpayers a 1967 budget of nearly $4.7 billion, biggest ever proposed for any state in the Union. The same tableau, with only slight variations, was repeated in statehouses across the country. For if January is the season of inauguration euphoria and soaring phrases, February is the time of budgetary reality and boring figures...
There is too much burlesquing by the women in the play, but as they do it well it isn't fair to carp. Denise Girouard as Mrs. Boef, wife of a rhinoceros, is the most skillful of the lot. She is a master of the tableau vivant, always finding the right arch of leg or arm to drag comedy out of stage direction. Sara Salisbury plays Daisy, the secretary in Berenger's office, and she looks like a secretary, which is some achievement in Cambridge. Miss Salisbury has the good sense not to overdo her girlishness and pucker-pout...