Sentences with phrase «giant white tent»

To get to the U.S. Attorney's office, a visitor must wind his way through a phalanx of blue police barricades, stop by a kiosk manned by a U.S. marshal, enter a giant white tent with police and metal detectors, and proceed to a bulletproof visitors desk, replete with armed guards.

Not exact matches

The look we wanted was something like «Alice in Wonderland meets Classic Shabby Chic» nothing matching or set themes but lots of detail everywhere you look at, we hired a giant sized white lamp which looked fab and was a good taking point for people we also bought beautiful vintage white umbrellas and hung them from the roof of the wedding tent near the beach.»

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

Through Sunday at Frieze New York's impressive white tent on Randall's Island, visitors can snap selfies under a giant table designed by artist Robert Therrien, sip from water bottles ornamented with Laercio Redondo's designs, and watch a feminist parade orchestrated by Lara Schnitger.