Word: tableaux
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...first proof that rock art in Australia had survived from the last Ice Age, which ended roughly 10,000 years ago. Tasmania was then joined to the Australian mainland by a land bridge, and though the island's stencils may not be as old as Arnhem Land's tableaux of long-limbed spirits, or as elaborate as the red spectral figures of the Kimberley region's Bradshaw paintings, they still inspire wonder, for the Ice Age hunters and their families here were living further south than anyone else then on the planet. Today this cave entrance looks west over...
Spring in Cambridge is a strange time. For all the familiar clichés of the season as a time of miraculous regeneration—cue soft-focus images of fluffy bunnies and blooming bouquets—these delightfully wholesome tableaux seem conspicuously absent from the local environment. The stripped-bare foliage continues to bear more than a passing resemblance to the set of the Blair Witch Project (preponderance of red brick aside); deluded optimists who insist on wearing flip-flops outside end up with toes a distinctive shade of magenta by sunset; and carb-loaded comfort foods still retain...
...times during the Thursday-morning rush hour in Madrid as powerful explosives ripped open carriages, killing some 200 commuters and wounding more than 1,500 others. Like the 9/11 attacks, the Madrid bombings were impeccably timed to kill ordinary people on their way to work, and both left unforgettable tableaux of pain and destruction, the kind terrorists regard as spectacular. Not all the bombs took lives, though. Two similar devices were destroyed by police in controlled explosions. And thanks to a terrorist's mistake and a rescue worker's inadvertent discovery, the final bomb survived. It proved to be lucky...
...such as the trash can, are uniformly brilliant. You?re walking down Main Street and suddenly a horse-drawn trolley pauses and a half-dozen kids jump off and start dancing as a showtune plays. At the castle several times a day, Cinderella and friends act out a lively tableaux for the edification of those in the plaza below. The cumulative effect, over a couple of days, is to convince the children that they are in another country - on another planet - where, at any given moment, something extraordinary might happen. ?I want to live in Disney World,? said Jack...
...kind, but it's notable only because it happens to Ryan, who for decades, it seems, has been Princess Perky, and who is fine, not great, in the role. Anyway, the sex is mostly in the talk, which is in its way as violent as the grisly murder tableaux. Ruffalo's whispery voice, his Brando-wannabe mannerisms and the ambiguities of a shady cop in a whodunit - he's one of those movie characters who are guilty until proved interesting - make Molloy's every flirtation sound like a threat, a dirty secret, a dream as scary as it is seductive...