Word: tent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Organized by the online industry with prodding from the White House, the summit managed to draw an impressive and diverse array of pressure groups into its tent, as well as Al Gore, Janet Reno (both originally scheduled to speak on the day she was to announce whether he would be saddled with an independent prosecutor, much to the press's interest), sundry lesser Cabinet members, Congresspeople, lobbyists, academics and law-enforcement officials. All were united by a single goal: a genuine--if also, in many cases, self-interested--desire to protect kids. Missing were the kind of sparks...
...pornography is all about every bodily thing working absolutely perfectly all the time, then horror entails the breaking down of everything you rely on (e.g. a phone call to safety, authority figures, having sex in a tent). To keep everything falling apart and yet not interfere with the narrative pushes some horror movies into nonsense: so many lights go out or break down that one could make a very good light bulb joke about the whole thing, I am sure...
Fung publishes a weekly table tent appearing on all dining hall table tops that provides students with "recent and basic" nutrition tidbits...
...meanwhile, staff members were busy polishing the marble entrance where guests walk over a mosaic of the American President who bombed the city in 1991. The inscription: BUSH IS CRIMINAL. Inside was a more traditional welcome, with the same editorial message. Waiters served cups of coffee in a Bedouin tent next to a sign that read DOWN DOWN AMERICA. USA COUNTRY OF TERRORISM...
...with The Suicide of the Astronaut, the dictator's winsome tale of a space traveler who explores the moon only to find upon his return to earth that his life is empty. Salinger and Canadian publisher ALAIN STANKE clinched the book deal with Gaddafi not long ago in a tent at the maximum leader's army barracks near Tripoli. Stanke says Gaddafi will get no advance and denies reports that the Libyan government is paying the publisher and Salinger to put out the book. No movie options...