Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Teenagers enjoyed the exhibit as well. As a counselor for the Beth Israel Summer Camp in Worcester, Yael Miller, 17, says she enjoyed the chance to take the campers outside...
Nearly everyone gives the credit to Carrasco. A onetime Peace Corpsman and athletic director at American University in Washington, the 68-year-old "Mr. C.," as he is known, enforces a boot-camp regimen. He and his 23 instructors impose fines and extra chores on students who fail to keep their rooms clean or who litter the yards. The youths must stay on the eight-acre grounds except on weekends and Wednesday nights, when they are granted leave. They put in an eleven-hour day of training, academic instruction, physical exercise and cleanup. The youths train...
...Sunday he was jangled awake in Camp David's Aspen Lodge at 4:52 a.m., even before the birds began to peep, and told that the Navy cruiser Vincennes may have shot down an Iranian F-14 in the Persian Gulf. By 8:11 a.m. he had a written message on reports that the downed plane may have been a civilian airliner. At 9:52 a.m. there was a call suggesting there was something to the story that an Airbus had been blown...
...group of Latino artists who brought their art to the streets. But all of that was the forcing ground for a talent that resists ethnic labels. His paintings carry echoes of Mexican symbolism, but they also wear the signs of European expressionism, new-wave imagery, old- fashioned camp. And he recalls low- and high-culture influences in his adolescence that are shared by half the Anglo painters in Manhattan. "Daffy Duck on TV in the morning and Camus in my back pocket," as he once described it. Someone like Gronk does not cross over at all. In him, the cultures...
...Latin lover, actors named Ricardo Cortez, Antonio Moreno and Ramon Novarro all wooed Garbo on screen. In the '30s and '40s, Hollywood called on Cesar Romero, Gilbert Roland or Ricardo Montalban for Continental elegance and rewarded them with careers as durable as Corinthian leather. Even those two camp goddesses of the '40s, Carmen Miranda and Maria Montez, did not wallow in the spitfire stereotype so much as they exploded it, with wit and pizazz...