Word: tented
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...trend isn't confined to newer developments like Lajitas. Some of the world's most venerable hotel operators go to great lengths to give their guests a generous helping of local flavor. Oberoi Hotels built the first luxury tent resort on the edge of the rugged Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve in western India four years ago and put pampered fat cats face-to-face with majestic big cats during private jeep tours through the jungle. More recently, the $630-a-night Oberoi Vanyavilas resort purchased pachyderms to take guests on mahout-guided elephant rides through the countryside...
...night-light or reading lamp. Don't Bug Me Insect repellents can be sticky or stinky. How about a shirt that keeps pesky pests away? Ex Officio's Buzz Off shirts, $22 and up, are made with permethrin, the same insecticide used in long-lasting antimalaria bed nets. Titan Tent Sales of big car-camping tents are up 117% over the past three years. The new three-person, two-door Mutha Hubba, $380 from Mountain Safety Research, is both spacious (3.7 sq m of floor space) and lightweight (around 3 kilos). Sleep Sack REI's Kindercone, $59, is designed...
...Screen comedy is at its best when it pitches it tent close to the poverty line. Think Chaplin, who once said that all he needed to be funny was a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. Think Keaton, who once did a brilliant special-effects comedy, (Sherlock, Jr.) , where you were almost unaware of his very subtle camera tricks. Think Grant, Hepburn and their wayward leopard. For that matter, think Something About Mary, which pretty much took place in a cramped apartment. The minute the effects budget swells, it starts to crush the life out of comedy, which needs...
...Titan Tent Sales of big car-camping tents are up 117% over the past three years. The new three-person, two-door Mutha Hubba, $380 from Mountain Safety Research, is both spacious (40 sq. ft. of floor space) and lightweight (less than...
...Love holds a special challenge, not just for its director, Dominic Champagne (who helmed the tent show Varekai and the sexy Vegas cabaret Zumanity), but for the company as a whole. Cirque's trademark is the creation of original artifacts; Love is the first one whose subject carries its own reverberations and weight, meaning and memories. Beatles songs do what Cirque directors do: tell stories, weave moods, conjure fictional worlds. People coming to Love bring their personal connections to the songs with which Champagne's interpretations must compete. His task is not just to devise a magical mise-en-scene...