Word: tente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives in a Surrey village Wodehousefully named Chipping Sodbury, worked for eight years as a Madison Avenue copywriter to finance his career as a novelist. The experience appears to have sharpened his sense of irony. He writes lyrically of the terrain of Spain, of the "vast and seamless tent" of sky above Madrid. Like his hero, who never set foot in England, Robinson has never even seen Madrid...
Last week a sixth full division of "motorized rifles," as the Soviet army denotes its armored infantry columns, rolled south across the border at Torghondi. It reinforced five other divisions already rooted around every major city in sprawling tent camps that are ringed by 130-mm artillery emplacements. The troops were arrayed around the country in a kind of wheel formation. At its center was an elite airborne division with a main base just outside Kabul, and two mobile units, one stationed due east at Jalalabad and one due west at Shindand. One of the four armored divisions, equipped with...
...audiences, the most obvious pleasure is Roche and Dinkeloo's stunning design. Entering from the plaza, which the complex shares with the rest of the arts center, patrons come into a great glass tent, held up by concrete and steel girders. The effect is both dramatic and exhilarating. The sense of excitement is heightened as visitors walk up to a second level, which curves around the Stage and offers - smog permitting - views of the Rocky Mountains. The feeling is like that on the promenade of an ocean liner, and in warm weather doors will be opened to an outdoor...
American sensitivities have been sharpened by the spectacle of the Ayatullah's disgracefully successful tent show. But a nation that lives in a surfeit of images and excitements may have a short memory. Since the U.S. emerged as a superpower at the end of World War II, certain conventions of the historical art form-the assault on the U.S. embassy and the U.S.I.A. library, Uncle Sam burning in effigy, YANKEE GO HOME on the compound walls, the vilification of the "paper tiger"-have become so habitual as to represent a rich tradition. Anti-Americanism has grown in direct proportion...
...after George had shot a ferocious lioness, the couple rescued her just-born litter. The two stronger females in time went off to a Dutch zoo. Elsa, the weakest, stayed behind to become first a pet (she rode on their Land Rover roof, often slept in George's tent) and then a problem. When Elsa by chance met and roamed briefly with a pride of wild lions, the Adamsons determined to release her and let her return to freedom. In preparation for that, with seemingly endless patience, they taught Elsa to hunt and kill for food...