Word: tented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HYANNIS, MASS. Cape Cod Melody Tent: Oliver!, through...
...equally angry wife," earns his keep by arising each day at 5 a.m. to begin digging in the broiling sun with the other Biblical scholars. He gets along on a kibbutz diet of cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs and bread, swats his share of flies, and sleeps at night in a tent. For these privileges, he paid his own round-trip fare...
...Arab world, better known than Nasser, especially among desert folk. When she appeared for the first time at Lebanon's Baalbek Festival last month, her followers came by the busload from points as distant as the Persian Gulf. Her two concerts in the 4,000-seat tent theater amid the Roman ruins were sold out months in advance, and scalpers got up to $250 for tickets. While she conducted the 20-piece orchestra with flicks of a long linen hanky, her smoky voice quavered like a struck gong, snaked nasally through soaring loop-the-loops, dipped to guttural growls...
Structurally, the Saratoga Center towers over all of these retreats. Audiences approach the theater across emerald lawns illuminated by 40 globular lights perched like tiny moons on four concrete runways. With its peaked roofs and long supporting beams, the building has the lines of a super circus tent. Inside, the most imposing feature is an acoustical canopy jutting 50 feet from the stage like some op-art gargoyle...
...Tent Peg to Tent Peg. The result is citified chaos. Campsites are packed tent peg to tent peg, and latecomers drive around for hours to find a spot. On weekends, raucous teen-agers contribute heavily to a delinquency rate -mostly underage drinking and petty theft-that would do discredit to a city of 25,000. Bumper-to-bumper traffic jams constantly bring back unloving memories of the freeways. At night, a soupy pall of smoke curls from thousands of campfires in the tent city. Cracks Camper Mike Hemel, who fled the smog and traffic of Los Angeles for Yosemite...