Word: tented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...robes of red and ocher rubbed shoulders with laymen, zealously spinning the prayer wheels that would magnify a hundredfold the effect of incantations written upon them. The Dalai Lama, followed by flocks of devotees, visited monasteries rancid with the odor of butter-oil lamps. Then, leaving the bustling tent township erected for the occasion, he retired with his chosen monks to a small pagoda on the banks of the Indus River to devote six days to prayer and penance...
Rosy Mist. Running Fence, however, is his largest work to date-and like the others, it is scheduled to be dismantled within two weeks. "It will make one hell of a revival tent when it comes down," mused Pop Artist Jim Rosenquist, one of the group of artists, museum curators and dealers who assembled to watch the installation. "It was a beautiful birth, all rosy mist and hidden sunlight," enthused the curator of Dartmouth's Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Jan van der Marck, a longtime collaborator of Christo's. "It can't be owned or rented...
...Eave Two-Man and Eave Three-Man. Rounded on top like Conestoga wagons, these tents take two minutes to erect and have withstood winds up to 80 m.p.h. No center pole or ropes are needed, and the tent breathes through a porous cloth roof protected by a waterproof "fly" that overhangs it like an eave. The three-person version weighs 6 lbs. and costs...
...Trillium. This bulbous tent sleeps six and consists of three lobes, each with its own entrance, joined in a central "common room." The Trillium weighs 13 lbs. and, like the Eave tents, is freestanding, which means it can be moved while assembled. Cost...
Despite his inventiveness, Moss until recently was content to license his patents (he holds more than 30) to other manufacturers, who he feels sometimes did not exploit his ideas fully enough. As a result he opened Tent Works a year ago to manufacture his wares, has sold hundreds of tents, and is already expanding his production line...