Word: tableaux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a grand line that is perfectly suited to both the Opera House stage and the spirit of Figaro. Against the predominantly gray background of the settings, the pastel dresses of the chorus and ballet and the vibrant yellows and reds of the principals' costumes produce wonderful, eye-filling tableaux...
Golden Demon unfolds in a series of tableaux; transitions are sharp, symbolism through color contrasts more than obvious. To fill in some of the larger gaps, a narrator quotes (?) Japanese poetry as the camera sweeps over the landscape and the background music swells...
...died in China, and to U.S. Grocery Clerk Harold McPherson, whom she divorced-and had a child by each marriage. At her flamboyant services, surrounded by choirs, bell ringers and 80-piece xylophone bands, Aimee most often preached in filmy white celestial robes but occasionally acted out liturgical tableaux dressed as a policeman, fireman or fisherman. Her carelessness about money was sternly held in check by her mother-business manager, "Ma" Kennedy, an ex-Salvation Army lassie. One May afternoon in 1926, at the very peak of her career, Aimee went swimming in the Pacific off Santa Monica-and disappeared...
...Line (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). TV may not be the best of all possible worlds for those far-out explorers, Elaine May and Mike Nichols, but they are canny enough to survive in almost any climate; the show is based on their ad-libbed comments about contrived, oddball tableaux...
Orpheus consisted of eight tableaux; seven of them were set to tape-recorded folk music, while the eighth (it lasted a fury-full 20 minutes) proved to be solid concrete. The surrealist scenery included outsize paintings of skeletons and angels with empty faces. In the first tableau Orpheus (danced by Choreographer Béjart) was transformed by turns into a snarling tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus...