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Among the nine other national pavilions, the $3 million, 62,000-sq.-ft. Soviet building is the most popular. The building is a visual delight, from the entrance, prefaced by pools, fountains and water plants, to a riverfront restaurant, supervised by a chef who presides over the best chicken Kiev this side of Leningrad. It has huge, non-Stakhanovite art montages, three movie theaters, an exhibition of Armenian archaeological artifacts and, in keeping with Expo's theme, ingenious models of air-and water-purification systems...
...children, particularly, another delight is the "Folk Life Festival," which is devoted to U.S. and Canadian ethnic groups and their crafts. In one section, aromatic with Scottish haggis* acooking, clansmen show how to make bagpipes, boots, quilts and kilts, and invite youngsters to join in. In another section there are Indian tepees and longhouses, and a sluice where kids can pan for gold...
...government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau because its proposed 1974 budget allegedly failed to deal effectively with Canada's roaring inflation. Minutes later, when House Speaker Lucien Lamoureux announced the tally-137 votes in favor of the motion to 123 against*- opposition M.P.s exploded in a roar of delight and littered the green-carpeted chamber with a blizzard of tossed papers. Next day Governor General Jules Leger dissolved Parliament, as Canada's four political parties and 13 million voters geared up for a new national election on July...
...familiar. Indeed, its wildest moments are from that forgotten cloudland of the '30s and '40s when every performer was expected to carry a tune. In Born to Dance, Jimmy Stewart reaches for a high note and almost pulls it down; Clark Gable gives Idiot's Delight its few moments of radiance; a klutzy but indomitable Joan Crawford steps her way up from The Hollywood Revue...
Frankenstein. Paul Morrisey's Warhol film is reportedly a gas. Of interest because it's supposed to pile on the violence in such a way that revulsion actually shifts into absurdity and half-delight. Even though the 3-D (those glasses) makes it super-real. Just opened at the Beacon Hill...