Word: tented
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Stern lived in a tent on a U.S. military base in Baghdad for ten days this past December. During his stay, he visited thousands of members of the armed services who are involved in all aspects of the war. There, the preppy Harvard student witnessed America’s largest current military offensive by making the most of his connections. His father, actor Daniel Stern, who played the tall robber in Home Alone, was invited by the United Service Organization (USO) to Iraq to entertain the troops. The younger Stern served as the liaison between the USO and his father...
Munera uses irony and symbolism to convey specific ideas to his viewer. In “Circus Tent,” another photograph taken in the slums of Bogota, a small, dilapidated tent that reads “Bienvenido al Circo” in faded red letters gapes open, revealing the humble iron bed frame that someone calls home. Munera’s portrait titled, “Destiny Stone” shows a bright-eyed boy peering through a hole in a boulder...
...Just behind the spot where Li had pitched his tent, at the Supreme Court petition office, a group of some 150 men milled around the entrance. They were not petitioners but officials from various provinces there to pick up any stragglers who had made it to the capital. Often, according to petitioners, the officials pretend to help the visitors, befriending them in a familiar dialect, before hauling them off to the railway station for a forced ride home. As for Li, chances are he was swept up in a similar fashion. He will probably be back before long. After...
...which gathered outside a posh Republican fundraiser in the City, chanting mock slogans like “Four More Wars” and “Re-Elect Rove.” A group advocating for the poor has already vowed to erect “Bushville” tent cities around the convention site, and websites like rncnotwelcome.org offer resources to New Yorkers and travelers who seek to “subvert this carefully staged affair.” (The GOP seems to be taking this seriously, having quickly bought up the similar-sounding rncnotwelcome.com address and linking...
...just a store opening, but the festivities taking place behind New York City's Lincoln Center could have rivaled the christening of the new Queen Mary. A giant tent glowed with the image of a logo-laden Louis Vuitton trunk, a beacon for the handbag obsessed. On the ceiling inside, tiny stars shaped like Vuitton's LV logo twinkled above the crowd. Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rudy Giuliani swept in to congratulate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault on his spectacular four-story Fifth Avenue emporium...