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Each minute, 24 hours a day, a musical beep sounds across the camp from a command tent ("Central"). During the day, at 12-beep intervals, the disciples check Central for their next task. Among their duties: camp chores, perimeter guarding and stints as "rotating eyes" (monitoring campers' conduct and reporting violations...
...offbeat is "Sling Blade," really? In some ways, Thornton's Southern-gothic thriller is an unlikely hybrid of "Forrest Gump" and "Pulp Fiction," the tent-poles of the Oscar race two years ago. That is, "Sling Blade" inhabits some fairly original territory, but doesn't deliver on all of its promises...
...down to Washington for the inauguration and enjoying both the hospitality of my cousins and "An American Journey," the weekend festival on the Mall. The exhibit boasted a number of entertainers and scholars, but as I read down the list, one caught my eye: appearing in the Millennium Schoolhouse tent would be a variety of childhood favorites, "From 'Sesame Street' to Elmo." Yes, the furry red symbol of this past holiday season had, in the mind of the festival's copy writers, come beyond his "Sesame Street" roots to the point where he was something to contrast with his colleagues...
...double purpose. As Minister at Harvard University's Memorial Church, Gomes detects "enormous spiritual cravings" among his semilapsed acquaintances, and he believes that large helpings of Scripture, smartly parsed, are perfect fare for the faith starved. Each application of Bainton's doctrine invites a new group into Gomes' revival tent; just as important, each serves as an example of the way the Bible can still speak to even the most liberal or intellectually sophisticated Christian...
Mary left active fieldwork in 1983 and retired to a five-acre compound near Nairobi with her books and her Dalmatians. "Actually, given a chance, I'd rather be in a tent than in a house," she told a reporter this summer. In August the unflappable, cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking "grande dame of archaeology," as Virginia Morell called Leakey in her recent book Ancestral Passions, got one last glimpse of her beloved footprints just before they were buried under layers of protective fabric, earth and boulders to preserve them for future generations...