Word: tented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Oktoberfest. Dating from the come-everybody wedding reception 155 years ago of Bavaria's Crown Prince Ludwig, Oktoberfest today is an excuse for games, gourmandising and, among Bavarians, whose per capita annual beer consumption is 218 quarts, for quaffing the amber Märzenbier.* Seven big beer tents steined out Märzenbier last week, but nowhere was it downed faster than at the largest -the Löwenbräu tent, into which 40,000 people a day crowded to hear a 50-piece brass band and watch chesty Westphalian stallions with blue velvet and leather harness...
...Gaulle as regards South Viet Nam is inadmissible" fell on ready ears. An unredeemed opponent of Algerian freedom, Tixier made his reputation defending S.A.O. terrorists whom the De Gaulle government brought to trial. Tixier spent all of August touring beaches and resorts, holding forth under a rented circus tent. By Tixier's accounting, it was a huge success. He talked to 125,000 Frenchmen and, he said, increased his potential share of the French vote from 18% to 25%. Most observers suspect he will be lucky to poll...
They met after a tent meeting near her home town of Amesville, Ohio, and began dating. One night last month, after he had picked her up at home to get an ice-cream cone, they headed for Las Vegas instead to get married. Last week Donald Melvin Boggs, the studious-looking ex-convict, and Radcliff, his willowy, olive-skinned girl friend, were arrested in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he was charged with a six-day, three-state crime wave in which four men were bludgeoned and shot to death...
Quintessence in a Tent. At the advance showing last week were giant tapestries from Poland, motorized mechanical sculptures made out of scrap iron and continuously-tuning radios by Switzerland's Jean Tinguely, and batches of Latin American assemblages glued together out of such rummage-sale remnants as sequined bras, false teeth, rubber gloves and old shoes. There was pornography from Holland by Johannes Oldeboerrigter (painted genitalia piled on platters) and pornography from Sweden by Ulf Rahmberg (comic-booklike engravings of copulation). There was a Uruguayan artist named Carlos Paez who offered a circus happening in a black tent with...
HYANNIS, MASS., Cape Cod Melody Tent: Again, it's West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein's crossbreeding of Romeo and Juliet and Hell's Kitchen...