Word: tented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Uniformed guards with dogs kept a wary watch on the tent city erected by youthful environmentalists at the abandoned airport of Skarpnäck, but the violent demonstrations the police feared never came. Instead, the students put on gentle "eco-skits" to dramatize "eco-catastrophes." In one, for example, a girl painted as a skeleton and accompanied by drums and cymbals danced a warning about the radioactive fallout from French nuclear-bomb tests in the Pacific. Total damage to property caused by such activities: one broken window...
Invocations. While all this earnest discussion goes on (in five official languages and a dozen meeting places), the conference is also earning itself the nickname of "Woodstockholm." Students have set up a tent city complete with a movie theater for kids too hopped up on amphetamines to s]eep-at the abandoned airport of Skarpnack, just south of the city. Chief Rolling Thunder, an honorary Shoshoni medicine man, chanted invocations while 50 members of the Hog Farm, a peregrinating U.S. commune, threw tobacco into a camp fire, a ritual that is supposed to ward off violence...
Along a dirt road outside Jaura is the Gandhian ashrama known as the Change of Heart Mission. Under a makeshift but colorful tent, we lunched on vegetables and rice served on plates of dried banyan leaves. There I met a former bandit whom Vinoba Bhave had persuaded to surrender. "Did you ever kill anyone?" I asked. "Naturally. I killed policemen," he answered. "How many?" "If I asked you how many pieces of bread you've eaten in the past two months, could you tell...
RABELAIS by Jean-Louis Barrault: Eliot House Drama Society, director Laurence Bergreen, Eliot House courtyard, in a tent May 4-6, 11-13 8:00 PM $1.50 (beer will be served...
...gawking was good. Among the women in the crowd of 60,000, the braless look and tight pants predominated. The very beautiful and the very rich wandered in and out of the blue-and-white-striped "Members Only" tent. At $8 a head, families took seven-minute swoops over the track in helicopters. Others tooled up and down the old, cracked fighter-bomber runways of the airport in open M.G.s, yellow Jags and dune buggies...