Word: reenactment
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...interned in a Manhattan hotel by a large unpaid bill. A backer appears with a check (rubber) and a protégée (Anne Jeffreys) who falls for The Voice. Even Sinatraddicts may gasp at the shots in which reluctant Mr. Sinatra and enthusiastic Miss Jeffreys practically reenact the Fall of Man in a telephone booth...
...looks as though the freezing over of the Charles gave some 'Poon men a chance to reenact Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Liza 'cross the ice with the rest of the this-side-of-the-river Harvard population filling in as the blood-hounds...
Several afternoons a week, a carefully selected group of patients meets in the theater. Dr. Moreno picks one protagonist, who has been prepared by long, intimate conferences, and they sit together on the steps of the stage, planning a rough outline of the scene they will reenact. Other actors in the drama are also picked by the doctor-usually they are patients too, but sometimes a part is taken by a specially trained professional actress. The patient may act himself, his mother, his wife, or any role he chooses. The actors all move freely about the stage, sometimes merely chatting...
...grisly show. The assassination had occurred at 1:30 p. m. and punctually at 11 p. m. the same night seven young Iron Guards who had confessed to the murder of Little Hercules were brought to the spot where the assassination had taken place, forced to reenact it under police floodlight and then executed, in situ. The executioners were seven Rumanian soldiers, each of whom drew a pistol and killed one of the seven Iron Guards. The bodies slumped to the pavement, gushing blood and sprawled grotesquely next to those of two Iron Guards who had committed suicide...
...important item in the decisions brought in by jurors which theoreticians can never reenact is the "atmosphere of the court-room" that seems to impregnate all the proceedings with its peculiar influence. This atmosphere is created by the attitude of the defendant and the prosecuting attorney's method of attacks. In Massachusetts under existing usage, electrocution is not imposed for murders of passion or deaths occuring during the commission of a crime not a felony in itself...