Word: tableau
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...untenable. But all are entitled to equal rights, with attainments limited only by their own inherent qualities. It is highly unfair to judge individuals on a facial or group basis of any kind; individuals should be judged as individuals on their own merits. Those Negro students presented a significant tableau as they stood before a picture of Lincoln signing the emancipation proclamation, just after Congress had denied them the rights of American citizens...
Dramatically as in an Italian opera a beam from an emergency floodlight suddenly lit the tableau. The emergency dynamos were working...
...quantity of the material is even more surprising than the content. An evening or so spent reading this book is far more entertaining and absorbing than a movie. It does, in fact, give the impression of a colossal comedy (or better tragedy) of errors as this animated tableau is unwound before the reader's eyes...
...stage show the Metropolitan has gone Ziegfeld with a vengeance. There are of course the Boswell sisters, and Conchita Montenegro, both alluring in their own particular ways, two or three other good acts, and a grand tableau of thirty glorified girls in half-piece bathing suits gamboling in a Louis XIV fountain while colored lights play and the orchestra hits a feverish crescendo. What more do you want for sixty cents...
...pictured her "writing her first newspaper story" at a typewriter. Fond of tennis, swimming, riding, mother of two, she dislikes golf and bridge, prefers talking to backgammon. Last winter, long before she knew she was one day to work for William Randolph Hearst, she ap peared in a charity tableau representing Cinemactress Marion Davies...