Word: tente
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...display between the bearded lady and the unicorn girl. She might have lived as a convinced turtle-woman forever, but for the day she met a man so handsome that she left her carnival in his pursuit, following him so far outside the striped walls of the freak-show tent that she became human...
...took back the square, first a few workers and students and teachers and soldiers, then more and more, until more than 1 million had assembled there. They set up, in the heart of the ancient nation, their own world within the world, complete with a daily newspaper, a broadcasting tent, even a 30-ft. plaster-covered statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy." Their "conference hall" was a Kentucky Fried Chicken parlor on the southwest corner of the square, and their spokesmen were 3,000 hunger strikers who spilled all over the central Monument to the People's Heroes...
...black-and-white-striped convict outfits. He's the man who blacked out all television for inmates except G-rated flicks, the Weather Channel, Newt Gingrich videos and (opponents of torture may want to look away here) C-SPAN. He put up a neon vacancy sign at the tent city--get it?--served ostrich meat and green bologna to save tax dollars and made the inmates wear that pink underwear to make it harder for them to smuggle it out and to humiliate them. Sales of pink boxer shorts to civilians are a statewide sensation that helps...
...shortly after dinner, in a white tent over the West Terrace, as Wonder began You Are the Sunshine of My Life, an aide handed Clinton confidant Harry Thomason a printout off the Internet of a New York Times story about Betty Currie's testimony. The sight of Thomason hunched over in the dim blue light with Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel, straining to read, set off a buzz among the reporters on the press riser behind them. Abruptly, Peter Jennings left. Stop the music: Clinton may be done in--and by his own secretary...
...possibility that Clinton's approval ratings will continue to hit Reagan-like plateaus. Further, by remaining silent, Republicans risk sacrificing their claim to leadership of the Moral Majority/family values wing of the party. The squandering of this opportunity could set-off a Bible-thumping revolt in the big tent...