Word: expo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Europe, with communism spent and the trans-Channel tunnel imminent, there is still just enough of the ; upward-and-onward spirit to produce a real old-fashioned (that is, circa 1970) fair in Seville -- although, in line with recent fashion, it is not called a world's fair but Expo...
...prospering, postfascist Spain was the inevitable next place for such an event. The Spanish government spent billions on the fair and attendant public works, including a new high-speed bullet train that makes the trip from Madrid to Seville in less than three hours. Like any world's fair, Expo '92 has its fetching gizmos. The 231 IBM touch-screen computer monitors scattered around the 538-acre site are truly useful: a visitor, presented with an aerial photo of Expo, touches anything in the picture and gets a closeup view of the area touched -- and then, with another touch...
...unlike all recent world's fairs, Expo '92 is not single-mindedly focused on wowing people with visions of the technology-intensive Utopia just around the corner. It is a comparatively backward-looking affair, a pageant of past progress. The official theme is "The Age of Discoveries," and that pretty much means European colonization, featuring full-scale replicas of Columbus' ships. In Europe, Eurocentrism is not yet a bad thing...
...work print. But in 1979 the film, partly financed by an Iranian company, was seized by the Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic revolution. Don Quixote, which Welles shot in spare moments over three decades, has been edited by director Jesus Franco and will be shown next week at Seville's Expo...
Golf and Tennis Expo--Through Feb. 17.World Trade Center, Commonwealth Pier, Boston. $7;free for children under...