Word: expo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some of whom want to break off the ties to Britain and advocate formation of an independent republic. Diplomatically, Elizabeth and Philip did not set foot in Quebec during their six-day visit. Rather than travel through largely French-speaking Montreal, their plans called for them to reach the Expo 67 islands by sailing down the St. Lawrence River in their royal yacht...
Bathtub Race. Proud as they are of Expo's success, Canadians have taxed their imaginations to make sure that their centennial will be remembered for more than the fair alone. Oil Rigger Clint Shaw, 25, is demonstrating his patriotism by roller-skating 4,000 miles eastward from Victoria to Newfound land. Teams of Canadians dressed in the garb of the early fur traders are paddling from Alberta to Expo in a 3,300-mile canoe race. Later this month, 200 Canadians will race across the Georgia Strait near Vancouver in seagoing bathtubs fitted with outboard motors...
...still going strong at his studio, turning out costumes and sets for avant-garde operas. He has also designed a ballet to be shown on CBS-TV this Christmas, and contributed seven huge floats to Flying Colors, a musical spectacular starring Maurice Chevalier that will open next week at Expo 67. Still addicted to the ornate fantasies of the '20s and '30s, Erté is busy developing a new kind of sculpture. It embodies shapes of birds, shells and animals in flame-colored collages of copper and aluminum...
...Expo 67 is Celluloid City. In nearly every pavilion of Montreal's spectacularly successful world exhibition-more than 18 million visitors so far-the viewer is the ultimate target of a projector. Sometimes film flutters futuristically above or beneath him; sometimes images lurk and flicker all around him, caroming off walls, whirring on blocks and prisms, on hexagons and cruciforms. Sometimes movies are even mounted on a plain old rectangular screen-but everywhere there is film, film, film unreeling...
Inevitably, many of Expo's 3,000 movies are straightforward sales-promotion pitches, done with all the imagination of a headache-pill TV commercial. Russia and Israel, for example, may be a spectrum apart at the U.N., but at Expo, their threadbare cinema techniques are interchangeable. Israel pats itself on the back with its customary miracle-in-the-Negev approach. Russia shows a stupefying selection of dreary movies, including shorts featuring capering comrades at a Black Sea resort and bears playing ice hockey, which look like rejects from a FitzPatrick travelogue of the '30s. To make matters worse...