Word: tented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discreetly underplayed. Of India's greatest glories, its large-scale sculpture and monumental architecture, there is scarcely even a photographic hint. In all the exhibition, the only room that comes close to conveying a sense of the objects in context is a display of a 17th century royal tent, its rich, red silk velvet embracing more than 600 sq. ft. of space, its seven arches per side at once defining and opening an intimate chamber of carpets and pillows...
...sure. I made about 32 Elmer Gantry speeches. But everybody had left the tent...
...Crowell Webb, the main characters in the recent Chicago rape-testimony recantation, to hug on the air. "We needed a high-powered, experienced TV personality to draw people away from two established, successful competitors," says Executive Producer Jon Katz. "Phyllis George will bring a lot of people into our tent. All she needs is time...
...most enthusiastically received work was Tent Meeting, an uproarious portrait of a daffy Southern family: the patriarch, a self- anointed reverend who believes he gets messages directly from God--and who just may be right; a son, a self-aggrandizing deserter from World War II who has a diminishing grasp of reality; a daughter who copes with life's problems by stuffing her ears with an endless supply of cotton wool, then humming loudly; and the daughter's infant child, who is hopelessly deformed yet somehow survives. The action starts with the family's kidnaping of the baby from...
...weigh anchor and head for open water. Says Normand Bremner, 51, a Dallas anesthesiologist who was cruising the Grenadines last week: "Bareboat sailing is like a luxurious type of camping. You fend for yourself, do what you want, and you don't have to worry about putting up your tent at night...