Word: tente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once reserved for' covering grand pianos). Smart young matrons favor practical, less voluminous versions, often reversible and generally hooded. Pacesetters turn out in everything from Revillon's full-length black fox trimmed with chicken feathers and Adolfo's butterfly-wing silk kimono to the all-mink tent that Actress Elsa Martinelli wore over a sequined bathing suit at a Paris play opening. French, Italian and American designers practically all featured winter-weight capes last fall: those sent down the runways for spring are cut in breezy chiffon, ordinary denim and even terry cloth...
More pragmatic reasons are offered by Chicago Architect Lawrence J. Harrison, who is building his own dome home. "The dome is the greatest thing since the tent," he says. "It's cheap, efficient, simple to put together and is the most economic way of covering space. This is not just the answer to low-cost housing. This is the answer to low-cost, cooperative, self-built housing...
Sitting cross-legged in an Arab tent, the guest of honor munched on a hunk of roast lamb as a local entertainer offered animal imitations. "Monsieur le Président, I'm a cock," the man announced, crowing convincingly. "Monsieur le Président, now I'm a dog," he then barked. As the guest sipped Coca-Cola and Evian water, a group of Moorish women serenaded him in Arabic: "De Gaulle entrusted his testament to Georges Pompidou. Welcome." Thus did the 200 guests at a meshwi, an Arab-style barbecue, greet France's President...
Pompidou's visit to francophone Africa is the first by a French President since Charles de Gaulle's historic preindependence tour in 1959. It will take him from the tent encampments of Nouakchott to the modern towers of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, from the arid desert of Mauritania to the deep green rain forests of Cameroun, from the sight of heavily clad Berber women in the Sahara to bare-breasted girls in Yacunde. Scrupulously impartial, he and his entourage of 160-including Wife Claude, cool in summer outfits by Chanel, Cardin and Lanvin despite the oppressive heat...
Born in a goat-hair tent to a family of desert nomads, Gaddafi combines the traits of a hell-fire-and-damnation preacher, a willful millionaire and a Western-movie gunslinger. Last November, when Syrian General Hafez Assad toppled his Baathist rivals and took over, Gaddafi jetted into Damascus to inspect the new leader. He demonstrated his approval by leaving a check for $10 million. Like a political jack-in-the-box, Gaddafi has flown, unannounced, to Egypt for spur-of-the-moment meetings with Nasser and to Algeria for discussions with President Houari Boumedienne. When a group of Sudanese...