Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jersey (82): At least 59 of Governor Richard Hughes's delegates should wind up in Humphrey's camp. McCarthy can count on 19 votes, with 4 undecided...
TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. High camp comes artfully close to original Americana in this yarn of a sassy 14-year-old Arkansan heroine who avenged the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...
Unswerving Fealty. The Senator's campaign style remained as urbane and dispassionate as ever, even though the primaries were over and he now faces the arduous labor of trying to convert the convention delegates, mostly professional politicians, who are sympathetic or committed to Humphrey's camp. Ironically, McCarthy, as a scholar and a gentleman, could anticipate more sympathy from outright conservatives, even Republicans, who approve of his dignified image...
...world's leading stage designers, whose symbolic sets graced theaters from Hamburg to Haifa; of a heart attack; in Frankfurt, West Germany. A member of the Berlin group that included Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Otto fled Hitler's Brownshirts in 1933, set up camp in Zurich where he staged a Richard III that would either "win the Zurich public or send us back to the concentration camps." The play was a success, and Otto went on to stage such hits as Figaro and The Three-Penny Opera...
...chase. What gives the slender story distinction is its unusual style and attitude. It is all rendered from the self-righteously smug "That's the way it was" point of view of the heroine half a century later. Thus the violence is imbued with a bigger-than-camp Bonnie and Clyde quality: the stock two-dimensional figures of the familiar western landscape become disfigured here with a three-dimensional reality as limbs are chopped off and buckshot imbeds itself painfully beneath facial skin...