Word: expo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theme of Expo '70 is progress and harmony, but last week the fairgrounds seemed to reflect paltry progress and considerable confusion. Workmen darted among unfinished buildings. Girl guides drilled in mini-toga uniforms. Postmen roared around on scarlet scooters, learning their routes. Policemen studied plans for coping with the expected influx of pickpockets and prostitutes...
...doubts, however, that Expo will open on schedule. Pandemonium also prevailed before the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, practically up to the hour that the flame was rekindled. Then, in a final frenetic burst of activity that the Japanese refer to as a kamikaze construction charge, the workers finished everything down to the last doorknob. The same is expected at Expo...
Japanese fairgoers, along with 1,000,000 foreigners who are expected to visit Expo during its 183-day run, will be assailed by a stunning diversity of sights, sounds and smells. The pavilion area, where 72 nations are exhibiting, features what observers call "the battle of the rooftops." Among the combatants, naturally, is the Soviet Union, with a bold red and white sickle-shaped structure that soars 339 ft., and the U.S., with a ground-hugging elliptical Fiberglas Beta-fabric roof that is inflated with air and anchored with cables to concrete embankments...
...month, Kahn is traveling to Asia for six or seven weeks to cover Expo '70. His itinerary will also include Taiwan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, and Thailand. Even though Kahn has made many trips to Asia and has written a book on Micronesia, he still has never been to Vietnam. "I hope to get in there for a day or two to satisfy my curiosity as to what Saigon looks like...
However one feels about environments and their inner spaces, there will probably be a lot more of them. The art display scheduled for the U.S. Pavilion at Expo '70 in Japan will be largely devoted to space environments, including a cavelike structure by Tony Smith, a rain curtain by Andy Warhol, a vast mirrored wall by Robert Whitman, and a fog room by Rockne Krebs. In a word, spaces are big this year...