Word: tableau
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...such bravura and nuance that the audience paid him the rare tribute of thunderous applause between movements. After both concertos, as he rushed to embrace Conductor Kondrashin, he won shouting, standing ovations-and a deep-throated roar when he finally sat down to his encores : Rachmaninoff's Etude Tableau, the finale of Samuel Barber's Sonata and the Schumann-Liszt Widmung. The critics chimed in with the crowd. Sample: the New York Times's Ross Parmenter called Cliburn "a major talent," found that he "lived up to expectations...
...sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?'' Lawrence carries through to a scene of a covered wagon under attack. Eventually he plans to take the series up to the Industrial Revolution of the 1870s. While staying clear of most set historical tableau scenes, Lawrence has managed to bring fresh drama to those he found irresistible, e.g., Washington crossing the Delaware River, which he shows as a series of crowded boats in muted greens and browns, covered and muffled against the bright blue water to capture the quality of "violence, but a quiet feeling...
...streets of Budapest were like a favorite proletarian tableau come to frightening life-shouting students, muscular workers, flag-waving women raising fists on the barricades and braving death. But the oppressors they defied were their Communist masters. As the final irony of this amazing situation, the only word the Communists could think of to apply to these genuine revolutionaries was the epithet "counter-revolutionaries...
...Salinas, to work for Paper-Mate is to be somebody. After work, in a tableau like a scene from Carmen, the girl penmakers, dressed in factory-provided blue smocks, parade their status through the streets. Drawing a sharp contrast with the old way, sheepish cane cutters often perform the unmanly chore of bringing lunchboxes to their working wives at the plant...
...were making a comeback. Huey's son Russell is an able and respected U.S. Senator from Louisiana; another of Huey's brothers, George Long, is member of Congress from Louisiana's Eighth District. Earl's election put the capstone on Louisiana's monumental living tableau to the memory of Huey...