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His early works – a sculpture of himself at his first communion, a tableau about bed-wetting, a cloaked shepherdess with a lamp – were directly figurative.

Mr. Marcus's concerns military torture; Mr. Abeles's presents suicide bombers; Ms. Chernow renders a cemetery tableau about oil and war.

This means war: Christopher Nolan's second film not set in the present (or future) is an epic tableau about the rescue of hundreds of thousands of troops from the French coast.

In an adjacent space, known as the Transformer Galleries, the museum will show Lis Rhodes's "Light Music 1975" and a recent acquisition; Suzanne Lacy's "Crystal Quilt 1987," a film of 430 women over the age of 60 that the artist describes in an essay for the museum catalogue as "a tableau vivant," raising questions about the perceptions of older women.

John Edwards, who kept changing his story on network television but never stopped trying to seduce his audience, was a tableau of candor and remorse — except about the things he hadn't yet admitted were true.

The spooky indie folkie Justin Vernon from Bon Iver spoke of smoking marijuana with Rick Ross on one of his three sojourns to Hawaii to work with Mr. West, about as surreal a tableau as has been created in the making of any pop album this year.

Writing about the "Throne of the Mughal", a tableau with dozens of enamelled and bejewelled figures, he states that the ruler is an "imaginary Asian".

The effect, on a white gallery wall, is a strangely addictive ready-made tableau about the intersection of money, aspiration, and technology.

Using the known crystal structure of Au9, a tableau of multislice image simulations was constructed by rotating the molecule about two orthogonal symmetry axes.

It was a tableau.

Some games, notably strategy, combine the tableau and wastepile into a tableau consisting of several wastepiles.