Word: tented
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...young Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland were making a movie about stagestruck kids today, they probably wouldn't mount a musical in the backyard and wait for lightning to strike. Nor would they necessarily look for a summer-stock barn or tent, like so many fledgling players of times past. Instead, the tyro tap dancers, crooners and thespians would probably hie themselves to the nearest theme park or cruise ship to audition for a job. Theme parks may be more conspicuous for flume rides and cotton candy, and cruise ships may be best known for bingo and buffets. But they...
With the local hoosegow crowded, Boise authorities quickly put up an annex: a big top. Since July 6, nonviolent offenders have served weekend terms under a flashy red-and-white tent ordinarily used for the local fair...
...persuade prisoners "to wear the little red nose and the funny hair." In fact, the inmates wear their own clothes and are routinely warned to use sunscreen to protect themselves from the hot summer sun. Meals are served at picnic tables, portable toilets are set up near the tent, and prisoners sleep on military cots. Says Marshal Carr, serving a sentence for driving under the influence: "It's fun really. I use it to catch up on my sleep and get away from my old lady...
...young man stands outside an olive-green military tent in the mountains along the bank of Lake Sevan in Armenia. "Votki!" he bellows. "Get up!" In minutes, 30 young men, all of them under 18, file out of the tent to begin their morning exercises. By noon they have jogged six miles, practiced hand-to-hand combat and had a lesson in Armenian history. "We need our own army," says Razmik Vasilyan, commander of the Armenian National Army, a semi-underground military force that has grown to 10,000 men since it was founded nearly a year ago. "The Soviet...
With nowhere else to go, hundreds of evicted Israelis have erected small tent cities in a dozen sites around the country. The canvas tents are often furnished with little more than mattresses and sleeping bags, and toilet facilities are haphazard. The squatters' resentment is increasing along with their number. Last week near Tel Aviv, 70 of the homeless barricaded themselves on a roof, hurled gasoline bombs at the street and threatened mass suicide until Minister of Housing Ariel Sharon promised to listen to their demands and pay a visit to their tent city...