Word: expo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curtain fell, the sellout audience of 3,000 burst into a 15-minute ovation. The company's stand at Expo 67, which continues for the next two weeks with the addition of Rimsky-Kor-sakov's The Legend of the City of Ki-tezh, Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades and Borodin's Prince Igor, was already a bolshoi success...
Bolshoi means "big" in Russian, and Moscow's Bolshoi Opera more than lives up to its name. Last week, visiting the Western Hemisphere for the first time in its 191-year history, the Bolshoi rolled into Montreal's Expo 67 with 193 tons of scenery and accessories, five tons of special food, 99 instrumentalists, 95 choristers, 48 soloists, 50 dancers, and 127 staff workers and extras (including six female stagehands). And this was a mere splinter group from the 3,000-member company back home...
...enough to work in, Painter Mark Rothko, for instance, once took over the gymnasium of a no longer used Bowery high school. Helen Frankenthaler, who ordinarily works out of an East Side brownstone, had to hire a theater to stretch out her 30-ft.-high banner painting for Expo 67. Ellsworth Kelly confesses that he never saw one of his large canvases all in one piece until it was put together in an exhibition. Some artists, such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, who work on the same billboard scale as James Rosenquist, have bought their own buildings...
...crew and two of the healthy ones got into a brawl in a Thames Street rock 'n' roll joint. Figuring that a change of scenery might do wonders for their morale, Skipper Sturrock herded up all his ambulatory Aussies and dragged them off to Montreal to see Expo. The news from home at least was good. All of Australia is pulling for an upset and praying for one-including a tribe of aborigines on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, who have promised to sing a "wind corroboree" for good luck every day that Dame Pattie races...
...with fantasy, Expo crowds are also showing a healthy liking for good old-fashioned realism. At the International Sculpture Garden on the Ile Ste. Hé1ène, which includes 55 works from 17 countries, four out of five fairgoers applaud Ivan Chadre's Stones Are the Arms of the Proletariat. "I can relate to it," says one Ontario housewife pushing her two-year-old in a gocart...