Picture four or five enormous young, almost nude, sumos, (all plump effete 'Macaires', with somewhat differing Asian features),
sitting in various poses around an outdoor picnic table already set and with various delicacies on trays, say in a wooded glade,
being obsequiously served another large platter/cornucopia of identifiable food by a tall, old, starved, emaciated, tipsy, male waiter (could be portrayed as an old, male lion) (Bertrand),
with a (Uncle Sam) vertical striped dilapidated tilted top hat, the hat to also resemble a chef's high hat, and a greasy torn, full length white plain cook's apron, casually tied, reading "Free Trade".
The sumos should each be glancing furtively sidelong at eachother, with looks of either anger, suspicion, and/or fear.
Optional: for the really creative, another large almost nude male figure, with tiny vestigial 'wings', also might be 'landing' in the glade near the table, ala the "Flore et Zephyr" lithograph by Daumier. This figure's tiny g-string might read 'India'.
Clouds in the distance.
Below is a caption: 'Laissez faire'. Alternative captions might read "Market Disequalibria" or "Market Anomalies" Or even "Trading Partners".
The caption above might read "Fattening Up The Orient",
or "Team Players".
A discographic reference, Offenbach's music, and Halevy's production, of Lischen & Fritzchen, Conversation Alsacienne, en un acte
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