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...Giant Tent. In an age of super-sophistication, the Now Couple of the late '60s is almost square. Twiggy lives with her parents in a London suburb, and Justin has a fashionably exotic pad near Soho, under the offices of Twiggy Enterprises. In his living room he has draped 300 yds. of hand-blocked Indian fabric to form a giant tent. Beneath the tent are something like 100 cushions for visitors and Justin's small menagerie: a huge Afghan hound named Zaradin, two Persian cats called Buttercup and Jemima and a "plain" cat called Pansy. Twiggy stays...
...airing during Holy Week, is expected to draw even more than the 25 million viewers who watched his Christmas special. Once one of the country's most flamboyant and most criticized faith healers, Roberts, at 54, has come a long way from the days when his first big tent sat 3,000 on metal folding chairs and he shouted at petitioners who did not respond to his healing. The fast-paced, free-spending ambience of his television tapings, his casual, almost paternal confidence with his guest stars, his natty pinstripes and carefully barbered sideburns are only...
People seemed to be content Fifty dollars paid the rent Freaks were in a circus tent Those were the days...
Tarantulas. The putting up and taking down of the tent is all that actually happens in The Contractor, but it is utterly fascinating. For one thing, it is an intricate, large-scale operation requiring precise teamwork from the cast. For another, it is one of those rare occasions where a man's work life is actually depicted on the stage. The stress, the satisfaction and the ultimate futility of a community of effort are all present...
...compassion from any of these men. When the foreman, Kay (John Braden), is exposed as an ex-convict, and another workman is mocked because his wife deserted him for his impotence, Storey fills each man's eyes with a scalding, terrible hurt. The wedding never takes place; the tent has been erected in vain...