Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addictive, opium-based headache remedy and sedative. Pistols and rifles were aggressively marketed for years. The big book luxuriated in excess. Who had ever thought of buying a car by mail? The 1910 catalog offered an automobile called a motor buggy -- manufactured by Sears -- for $395. Never has the tent of U.S. commerce seemed more gloriously, wastefully overstocked than it did when portrayed on the pages of the Sears catalog...
...ABDUL AZIZ RANTISI, THE SPOKESMAN FOR 415 Palestinians expelled by Israel three weeks ago, looked out over the wintry landscape of the deportees' tent camp in southern Lebanon. "This is the first time most of us have seen snow," he said. "It would be beautiful if this weren't so tragic...
...mixing the real thing (as performed by the Angels of Mercy, Patti LaBelle, Albertina Walker) with soulful tributes from pop acolytes (John Pagano, Wynonna Judd, Lyle Lovett). But the movie, like The Bodyguard, doesn't live up to the craft or fervor of its music. This tale of a tent-show evangelist (Steve Martin) -- he promises "miracles and wonders" while lining his pockets with the gullible hopes of decent people -- can't even take energy from Martin's holy rants and amazing body...
...myself am not pro-life," Michael said yesterday. "We've preserved the big tent here at the Republican Club, even though the national party is pretty much pro-life at the moment...
Ding Dong, an original play by Elijah Aron, brought a circus, complete with tent and side show freaks, to the Loeb Ex last weekend. Aron, a veritable Jack of All Trades, also directed, designed and performed the title song for this piece...