Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volume's 124 plates are reproductions of treasures from the Senator's own collection. Begun in 1963 as a catalogue for an exhibit of his pieces at the Kress Museum in Allentown, Pa., the book might be counted as one of the unexpected bonuses from the 1964 Goldwater debacle. Scott, a moderate who knew that Goldwater's candidacy might well cost him his seat, found jades and porcelains a welcome tranquilizer after a hard day on the stump. Even today he has not forgotten that harrowing year (he won re-election by a margin of only seven...
...aver age of 5,000 people an hour line up to get in. Unquestionably, Architect Buckminster Fuller's bubble is a huge success; but the high-camp, soft-sell show inside is quite another matter. For in choosing to combine levity with patriotism, the designers of the U.S. exhibit have let themselves in for a scorching controversy in which comments range from soaring praise ("a masterpiece of pleasing self-irony," "no less profound for its easy wit and beauty") to bruising brickbats ("a sterile disaster," "it stinks"). No one, it seems, is neutral...
Members of Congress have often left the exhibit with a similarly letdown feeling. "The dome is beautiful, and the moon surface and burned hulls of space craft are very good. But the rest of it is very sick," was the opinion of North Dakota Republican Mark Andrews, who added, "Tens of thousands of people a day pass through on the minitrain to see what America is like. And what do they see? They see Liz Taylor, who's not even a citizen any more. It wasn't a soft sell; it was no sale...
Quilts & Space Seats. Such light, sentimental touches delight many overseas visitors. "The largest industrial nation of the world does not exhibit one single automobile, supersonic plane or computer," marveled the Frankfurter Allgemeine. "They are not trying to educate or boast; they are just pleasing." Oslo's Aftenposten agreed, called the exhibits "a breath from another world...
...first glance, the 27th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport seemed to belong to the U.S. Not only was the U.S. exhibit the biggest around, but it had an extra impact: it was a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's historic transatlantic hop to that very same airfield...