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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...formal featured a large dance floor under the courtyard tent with a DJ and an open bar. But some still remained dissatisfied with the location...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: A Night to Remember | 5/8/1998 | See Source »

...report goes on to say that it does not expect research institutions to provide undergraduate instruction on the model of a small liberal-arts college, but rather to bring undergraduates "into the big tent," allowing for more participatory research and learning opportunities...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report Blasts Universities for Poor Teaching | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...display between the bearded lady and the unicorn girl. She might have lived as a convinced turtle-woman forever, but for the day she met a man so handsome that she left her carnival in his pursuit, following him so far outside the striped walls of the freak-show tent that she became human...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Of Turtles and Women: Jones' `The Healing' Presents a Jolting Tale | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...took back the square, first a few workers and students and teachers and soldiers, then more and more, until more than 1 million had assembled there. They set up, in the heart of the ancient nation, their own world within the world, complete with a daily newspaper, a broadcasting tent, even a 30-ft. plaster-covered statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy." Their "conference hall" was a Kentucky Fried Chicken parlor on the southwest corner of the square, and their spokesmen were 3,000 hunger strikers who spilled all over the central Monument to the People's Heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unknown Rebel | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...black-and-white-striped convict outfits. He's the man who blacked out all television for inmates except G-rated flicks, the Weather Channel, Newt Gingrich videos and (opponents of torture may want to look away here) C-SPAN. He put up a neon vacancy sign at the tent city--get it?--served ostrich meat and green bologna to save tax dollars and made the inmates wear that pink underwear to make it harder for them to smuggle it out and to humiliate them. Sales of pink boxer shorts to civilians are a statewide sensation that helps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arizona: It's No Party in the County Jail | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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