Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miss those summers when nothing really mattered. I want to be booted off to camp by my parents and have them pick me up after a month. I want to take those family vacations in late August. I miss those precious times when everything was decided by others...
...call my parents the next day and tell them I might want to live at home this summer. They're thrilled, and I'm relieved. My mom says she'll plan a trip for August. And, maybe, just maybe, they'll send me to camp for a couple of weeks...
...like a majority of them. The books are not the main thing with some of them." Orr draws a $90,000 salary, has a hefty endorsement contract with Reebok shoes, makes $40,000 a year in speaking fees, has a radio program, a TV program and runs a summer camp. The school makes more than $1 million a year from basketball. Orr says he does not feel guilty that the players do not share in that wealth. "We're giving the kids something," he says. "We're giving them an education...
...heart of New York City's theater district. "I'm an off-Broadway baby," she explains. "When my friends and I write, we imagine small audiences." In fact, The Heidi Chronicles was originally written to be performed at the tiny, 156-seat Playwrights Horizon, the nurturing off-Broadway base camp for a generation of younger playwrights like Wasserstein. Only after the play opened at Playwrights last December to rave reviews and a sold-out three-month run were arrangements made to transport it to Broadway...
This is not the hog-stomping, Bible-thumping, camp-meeting music that used to rattle the tent poles along the revival circuit. Consider these elliptical lyrics about being born again: "I never thought I would ever/ Spot a ray of hope in the residue . . . But this time I found a Gold Mine in You" (God, not a girlfriend). Even the sextet's gospel oldies are revamped with vocal pyrotechnics, improbable harmonies and sly humor. As it injects religion into the freewheeling jazz-soul world, Take 6 is loosening up staid Adventism. Just before the Grammys the group gave its first...