Word: expo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ivan Chermayeff, 42. One of the nation's foremost designers, he has literally left his mark around the world. He created the interiors and landscaping for the U.S. Pavilion at Montreal's Expo 67, and is doing the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library's displays. Seeking to put personality into corporate identity, he has designed trade logos, exhibitions and lobbies for such clients as Pan American World Airways, Mobil Oil, the Chase Manhattan Bank. Born in London, he lived in Canada, graduated from Yale, is now a partner in design firms in New York and Cambridge, Mass...
...some thing for everyone: politics and religion, sin and redemption-if it is in the human condition, it is in the Shakespearean canon. Most of the year, Shakespeare resides quietly in the volumes of his work. But each summer he thunders and chuckles in festivals from the Spokane Expo to Central Park. For those sun-flooded weeks, the Swan of Avon returns to the group for whom he really wrote - the audience. This year, as in the 370-odd before, that audience will find whatever it seeks in the ceaselessly contemporary productions...
Fresco Feeling. Though it is a small fair by New York or Montreal standards, Spokane's Expo has a number of imaginatively designed pavilions. The $11.5 million U.S. pavilion dominates the site. Its theme: "Earth does not be long to man; man belongs to the earth." Umbrellaed by a translucent vinyl canopy that would cover nearly two football fields but does not touch the ground, the pavilion inside has an al fresco feeling and a cinema with the largest screen in the world (nine stories wide, six stories high). It features a film on U.S. ecology that opens with...
...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...
...Spokane Expo has already attracted a half-million visitors-far more than city officials had expected. Moreover, when the fair ends in November, it will leave the city with a new 2,700-seat opera house (in the $11.9 million Washington State pavilion), convention facilities, the Canada Park, the Boeing Amphitheater (as a civic center) and the Bavarian Gardens, a decagon of glass, fir and larch housing a German restaurant. In return for the $78.4 million cost of the fair, the city already boasts 7,200 new jobs and a $200 million boost to the economy. More important, perhaps, Expo...