Word: tente
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...company's other home in Stratford-Upon-Avon, a darkly funny As You Like It, again dazzlingly directed by Noble. His splendid, spare, Freudian production uses a flowing white sailcloth draped about the stage to represent a snowstorm, a dream-scape, a bower and a marriage tent...
...There was no room at any inn, so people camped in the streets and squares, while the city tested its gift for hospitality. Romans were urged to open their doors, take people in; the government set up thousands of cots in soccer stadiums, the convention center and makeshift tent cities, handed out bottles of water and blankets and pillows that had been stockpiled in anticipation of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius...
...still do their drinking when adults aren't around. But many parents have concluded that teen drinking is inevitable, and given the options, they prefer to have their kids drink at home under adult supervision rather than in a park or parking lot. Some parents even play host to "tent" parties, at which they confiscate car keys and provide a place for kids to spend the night. Public opinion, however, seems to be against that approach, and state and local governments are beginning to enact laws designed to stem underage drinking by targeting adults. Adults face six months in jail...
...kids start drinking," she says. "If teens drink, they usually drink to excess. And you can ask for their keys, but they have a spare or give you a key that isn't even to their car." Ellison speaks from painful experience. In 2002, a local parent supervised a tent party at which kids supposedly surrendered their keys. Nevertheless, several of them left the home at 3 a.m. and drove to the apartment where Ellison's son Doug, 20, lived apart from his parents. All the young people continued to drink, and later that morning, when Doug went...
...what I saw was very disturbing.” This is simply untrue. As opposed to years past, there were no life-threatening incidents related to alcohol—likely due to some proactive steps on the part of University Health Services, which set up a medical attention tent at the tailgate. More important than the tailgate itself, over-enforcing drinking laws will only encourage unhealthy drinking. Underage students will not stop drinking because of OSS, but they will be more likely to do it in private, more quickly, and in more extreme amounts via concentrated pre-gaming before heading...