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tableau a pause during or at the end of a scene on stage when all the performers briefly freeze in position How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| President Bush staged a Texan tableau vivant last night, playing host at his ranch to the secretary of state, his wife, Alma, and his deputy, Richard Armitage. Neon signs cast great pools of light, molten chrome and sheets of magnesium across the taxi roofs of Yasukuni-dori, turning pedestrians into a phantasmagorical tableau vivant. The corps de ballet is often used as a tableau vivant, which quotes from famous paintings from the late nineteenth century: Renoir's poetic promenade of the young ladies with parasols or Toulouse-Lautrec's harsh episodes in the brothel. |
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