Word: expo
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...toll that tourists have already taken seems a compelling reason for not inviting 23 million more. Which explains why so many defenders of Venice are dead set against a plan for the city to host Expo 2000, a four-month-long world's fair celebrating the turn of the millennium...
Next month the 47-nation International Bureau of Exhibitions (B.I.E.) will choose among Venice, Hanover and Toronto as hosts for the fair. A consortium of 40 companies, ranging from Fiat to Benetton, Olivetti to Coca-Cola, is mounting a vigorous campaign for the honor, arguing that the Expo would breathe life into the area's failing economy. But the city's devotees from around the world are convinced that if Venice wins, it will be lost. "The Expo would be a biblical disaster," says outgoing Mayor Antonio Casellati. "We would be signing the city's death sentence...
...Venice the city council remains categorically opposed, as do 63 organizations ranging from police to town planners. "Mounting a spectacular Barnum & Bailey circus is no way to solve real problems of sanitation, transport and tourism," says Alvise Zorzi, author of seven books on Venice and leader of the "No Expo" groups...
...FAIR. Almost everyone else is coming, but there may not be a U.S. pavilion at the Expo 1992 Universal Exhibition in Seville, Spain. The U.S. Information Agency requested $15 million over three years to help build a display hall. Uh-uh, replied Iowa Congressman Neal Smith, chairman of the House USIA subcommittee: "We are no longer going to construct buildings and then pay to tear them down after only six months." Without funds for architect and construction contracts, warns Marvin Stone, the U.S. commissioner general for the fair, "the project will die this month." Moreover, a snub...
...Toronto-based company that makes movies to be shown on screens the size of six-story buildings. The first Solido film, a largely computer-generated extravaganza called Echoes of the Sun that was co-produced by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, opened last week at the Fujitsu Pavilion at Expo '90, an international fair in Osaka. Showgoers queued up for a chance to park themselves in front of a huge wraparound screen, strap on a pair of battery-powered goggles and enter a startlingly realistic 3-D world...