Word: tableau
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...instant before it happened, one camera's eye caught a tableau that might serve as the late 20th century's most succinct text on the metaphysics of terrorism. There, on a mellow May afternoon at St. Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they see in the man--celebrity, charisma, holiness...
...positives in the context of reality television, singing the swollen talent-show ballad A Moment Like This in a prom dress with mascara cascading down your face is not the kind of thing that endears you to cool-conscious pop-music fans. Just in case Clarkson's victory tableau didn't create enough skeptics about her chances for a successful recording career, she followed it up with From Justin to Kelly, a monstrous Idol movie musical that in the most generous light is the worst film so far this century. "Two words: Contractually obligated!" shrieks Clarkson amid peals of laughter...
...jewelry, I was deeply impressed. “So, this is how the men at Harvard occupy their time!” I yelped with joy. “I thought they only did math problem sets and made gimp key chains!” The photographic tableau demonstrates the beauty of the magazine: The men that I know at Harvard tend to be work-obsessed, sensitive, and horridly awkward around women. Indeed, for most of the boys I know here, ladies are individuals whom they alternately fear and want to lose their virginity...
...syntax. Anyone who missed the reading for Reid Professor of English and American Literature Phillip J. Fisher’s English 157, “The Classic Phase of the Novel,” can skip the SparkNotes and use this film as a reliable source. In his gorgeous tableau, Wright has masterfully preserved the essence of Austen’s characters and captured the nuances of her society. He manages, in only 127 minutes, to leave no character in the complex plot undeveloped—Hollander plays the perfect Austen fool of Mr. Collins, Judi Dench is marvelous...
...North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung. Thousands of children seated on the bleachers opposite the spectators flip colored flash cards to create an ever-changing backdrop of slogans and uplifting images. ?They are fighting for the happiness of our people,? reads one slogan as flash cards form a tableau of parachuting soldiers. Later, a group of child performers - girls dressed in pink and boys in blue - run toward us and start shouting: ?Thank you Great Leader Kim Jong...