In an on-campus studio, thickly carpeted with leaves collected for the occasion, they set up an elaborate tableau with a large cast (played gamely by students).

In a number of images here, he stages elaborate and humorous tableaux to point out contradictory attitudes toward the history and effects of nuclear weaponry.

So is the elaborate tableau vivant of a clever little boy putting on a performance for an audience of seven.

Before she died tragically in 1977, Ree Morton was known for her elaborate decorative tableaux, often involving a kind of stiffened fabric called 'celastic'.

One series of elaborate tableaux involves costumes and settings that purport to shed new light on old concepts, but the results are more predictable than illuminating.

Traditional dramatic devices were substituted for a trance-like meditation achieved through an elaborate tableau of colourful visual images.

Traditional Christmas windows, of the sort presented by Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, and Tiffany & Company, offer elaborate tableaux built around seasonal themes.

More elaborate tableaux, like the herd of hippos installed at the 91st Street Playground in Riverside Park, have been partly financed by neighborhood groups.

Less an actors' film than a series of elaborate tableaux, it has a visual eloquence that extends well beyond the limits of its story.

Because of a fear of sexually transmitted diseases he wouldn't actually go "inside" women, never undressed, and was more into watching elaborate tableaux, often involving feet.