Word: tableau
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...shimmered in Bombay since dawn, and hung on in the stifling dusk after the sunlight's glare was gone. But a thousand patient Hindus stood tight-packed and sweating before the Taj Mahal hotel to see the American Widow Roose- velt. They were rewarded by a strange tableau. A gleaming open automobile awaited the famous visitor. But when she climbed in, she did not sit down. She faced the applauding crowd, bowed her head and folded her hands before her in the Hindu posture of namqskar. It was a gesture which would have horrified and infuriated a proper memsahib...
Primed, the children get there first, and garbed in spooky white sheets stage a reverent tableau that petrifies their elders until they see through it. When they do, they are relieved. The fake miracle gives them what they secretly want - something solid to disbelieve in. Peter Cowley's faith is unshaken. Modern man, he concludes, knows too much for his own good. Too sophisticated for miracles, he must find his way to grace through such hoary maxims as "Love one another." To give that wan truism the flush of a bold truth, Novelist Buechner's drawing-room tragedy...
...daughter, Jennifer, is played by Olga San Juan, and we must look to director Daniel Mann for the main flaw in her portrayal. Mann seems fascinated by the tableau as a dramatic device, and he frequently places Miss San Juan and other members of the cast in ridiculous positions for extended periods. She is noticeably uncertain about what to do with herself while on stage, and one constantly has the feeling that she is ill at ease. Miss San Juan's voice is not a powerful one, but she has thoroughly absorbed her role and performs creditably...
...Chicago father, home early one afternoon last autumn, opened the door of his son's bedroom and found himself staring at a terrifying tableau. His son, a 15-year-old vocational-school student, was sitting there, one forearm bared, a hypodermic syringe in his hand. Another boy was holding a teaspoon over the flame of a cigarette lighter. Both the syringe and the teaspoon contained heroin...
...they were just a sad commentary, a textbook lesson for budding State Department men, these troops would not be so bad. But the fact is that the educational tableau will not break up when we have finished showing it to the class. It is still on our hands, and we can only hope that the United Nations will find some way of disposing...