Word: tente
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...first African-American head of the EPA. Environmentalism is often thought of as a concern for a narrow, well-off elite. How do you want to change that perception and broaden the green tent...
Dave Sayler, a camping specialist at the Seattle flagship store of REI, one of the country's largest outdoor-gear companies, has fielded all manner of ridiculous questions from rookies. "I try to keep a straight face," he says. "I've been asked if a tent will keep bears out." (For the record, the answer...
...That is, to put it bluntly, no direction at all.Since forming in 2002, the Thermals have enjoyed a relatively comfortable living on a fan base fattened in no small part by the Pitchfork phenomenon. Unique among the bands in that tent, however, the Thermals cultivated a certain sound of fetishized outrage that looked faithfully back at the examples set by the impassioned lyrics of Joe Strummer and the infectious hooks of Buzzcocks singles. Their first album, “More Parts Per Million,” anticipated the more recent insurgence of lo-fi punk (No Age, Times New Viking...
...devastating earthquake rocked the city of L'Aquila, about 60 miles (95 km) east of Rome, killing at least 260 people. With more than 10,000 buildings damaged or destroyed, some 28,000 people were left homeless--many of them forced to brave frigid temperatures in makeshift tent camps. As rescue workers scrambled to pull survivors from the wreckage, authorities called the 6.3-magnitude quake the nation's worst in 30 years...
...bizarre, narrated through an unusual set of eyes—those of a teenage boy. Rodoreda’s narrator is a remarkably dispassionate protagonist, remarking in turns on the macabre and the surreal with unflinching ambivalence.Comparison is impossible to resist, as Rodoreda chooses to pitch her tent so deliberately close to that of other writers. The allegory of Rodoreda’s novel is glaringly reminiscent of its more renowned contemporary, J.M. Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians.” Whereas Coetzee uses myth to provide an account of nobility in the midst...