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...walk both began and ended on the Boston Common. A large tent and various staffed tables for check-in, first aid, foot massages and T-shirt and sweatshirt sales greeted the walkers with applause as they returned from the 10-kilometer course around Boston...
...Holy Roller preacher, and my brother thinks he's going to be President of the United States. I'm really the only normal one in the family." Billy worked hard for Jimmy's election, but afterward the hucksters in Plains appalled him. "Maybe we should just put a tent over the entire town," he said, "and declare the whole f------ thing a circus...
...have interfered with the social plans of freshmen and upperclassmen who have better things to do on the weekend than read the literature of the Society for Creative Anachronism, there was the added problem that it gets dark at night. About half the organizations represented fit beneath the lighted tent in front of Lamont, and freshmen could barely see those outside without the help of flashlights...
From that flimsy association with the Bard, and a lot of local mercantile hustle, emerged a 1953 season performed in a tent, with a rotating repertory of All's Well That Ends Well and Richard III, featuring Alec Guinness, already an established film star, in the title role. Thirty-five years later, the Stratford Festival has three theaters, seating a total of 3,870 people, and its repertory sometimes offers as many as six different shows on the same day, a dozen within a single week. Guinness has been followed by Tony Winner Brian Bedford, two-time Oscar Winner Maggie...
Today Aryan is among 28 men who spend searing days and chilly nights in a tent at one of four 200-man compounds in Ansar's Camp B, which constitutes one-third of a canvas village that sprang up on the desert plain three miles from the border with Egypt. By day the men loll on wooden pallets that are cushioned by a layer of foam and a rough gray blanket. At night prisoners are required to retire to their tents, close down the side flaps of their dwellings by 9 p.m. and not come out until reveille...