Word: tableau
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...with her husband the ex-President by her side, and an array of former Clinton Administration officials around her, Clinton was the center of a backward-looking tableau - a bridge to the 20th century, as it were. That only underscored the challenge of presenting herself as a candidate of change, which, if the admittedly impressionistic Iowa exit poll results are to be believed, is the transcendent dynamic driving Democratic voters. So it would appear Clinton has little choice but to try to create a new dynamic. Behind the scenes, her strategists have already begun to figure out how much heat...
...remarkable tableau late Thursday night, an African American stood in front of hundreds of screaming white middle Americans and delivered a speech that lifted its leitmotifs from great speeches of the past. "On this January night," said Obama, "at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do. You have done what the state of New Hampshire can do in five days. You have done what America can do in this new year, 2008. In lines that stretched around schools and churches, in small towns and big cities, you came together...
...with any blank tableau, Harvard’s first few brushstrokes in Allston, which have been sketched this year, will be the bold outlines for the entire project and shape the experience of Harvard students and faculty and residents of Allston for decades, if not centuries, to come.Harvard has a vision for Allston as an integrated campus that fosters interdisciplinary academics and shares its resources with the community. It is a promising one to which Harvard should adhere. Yet within that overall framework, which Harvard’s Allston Development Group set forth in a master plan in January...
...color. Hergé's impact went beyond the world of comic strips, influencing the work of artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. His storytelling was also pioneering. Tom McCarthy, author of last year's Tintin and the Secret of Literature, says the books create "a huge social tableau... managed with all the subtlety normally attributed to Jane Austen and Henry James...
...Nine Inch Nails fashion, it inevitably grows on you. The cinematography, while gimmicky, does what it sets out to do: the camera shows surveillance monitors that display different areas of an apartment building and its inhabitants, which include the band. Unfortunately, it’s not a particularly captivating tableau, until, finally, a SWAT team surrounds and infiltrates the building and an unidentifiable someone is dragged away. The video feels like it could be part of a longer movie: perhaps Reznor is further populating the fictional dystopian world of his upcoming disc, “Year Zero...