Word: tableau
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...evening began in the candlelit dining room at the French embassy. There, Ambassador and Madame Hervé Alphand were hosts at a dinner and a tableau that was worthy of Da Vinci himself. At the table sat President and Mrs. Kennedy, most of the President's brothers and sisters, France's Minister of Culture André Malraux, Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird, the entire U.S. Cabinet, the Ed Murrows, the McGeorge Bundys, the Averell Harrimans, Columnists Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann, and the National Gallery's Director John Walker...
...Francis of Assisi made the first crèche-or so his loyal biographer, St. Bonaventura, says-and it was a double success. The tableau lent a drama to the saint's sermon on Christmas Eve in 1223, and the hay later "proved a marvellous remedy for sick beasts and a prophylactic against divers other plagues.'' Since then, thousands and thousands of creches have been made, some commissioned by great lords, some modeled after master paintings, some encrusted with jewels, and some even designed to be wound up and set moving. But the most appealing creches...
...afternoon sunshine yesterday, the photographer snapped wholesome pictures of 'Cliffies running up Widener stairs, struggling with assorted clothing at the Grant-In-Aid auction, and smiling through drippy sandwiches at Eisie's. A mass tableau of eight or nine girls riding bikes along the Charles is planned...
...first recording in three years, Horowitz selected works of composers with whom he has long been identified-Chopin's Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Rachmaninoff's Etude-Tableau in C Major and Etude-Tableau in E-Flat Minor, Schumann's Arabesque, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. ig. In all of them Horowitz triumphantly demonstrates that whatever it is that keeps him from the concert stage, it is surely not failing artistic power. The glittering, steely technique is still there; Horowitz can play the piano with a strength and a seething air of controlled violence...
David Fairchild has made a valiant effort to hack out a set in the Common Room, but the split tableau has an unfinished look that is probably not intentional. The lighting arrangement is fine as a concept; hopefully, the effects will be better executed than they were last night. It is evidently quite hard to exit from the stage, and there were several embarrassing waits last night, both between and during scenes...