Word: expo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unchecked medical experimentation, it is downright ludicrous. As the moron turned polymath, Robertson displays a certain flair for Chaplinesque humor. The impact of his performance, however, is lessened by Producer-Director Ralph Nelson's determination to prove that he learned how to be new and now at Expo '67: almost every other sequence is done in split screens, multiple images, still shots or slow motion. There is a modest redeeming feature for tourists and lovers of travelogues: the historic sights in and around Charly's Boston setting have never been more lovingly filmed...
...mile swing through the Arctic last month, he acquired a sealskin parka, drove a motorcycle across the permafrost, and danced with an Eskimo go-go girl. During a recent visit to Montreal, he spent an evening clinking glasses at Man and His World, this year's version of Expo. On a jaunt to see Romeo and Juliet at Stratford, Ont., he was able to command the Prime Minister's private railway car and, naturally, a backstage visit with Juliet: 24-year-old Actress Louise Marleau...
What might have been the most innovative building ever to grace an international exposition will not open at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan, two years from now. The United States Pavilion, a spherical, 130-ft. air structure commissioned last October by the U.S. Information Agency, is the casualty of a $6,000,000 congressional cut in appropriations for the exhibit. Expo Chief Architect Kenzo Tange calls it "an incalculable loss that will hopelessly upset Expo's overall plans...
...USIA is equally unhappy. Expo 70 will be the first world's fair in Asia, and the congressional cutback will cause considerable loss of U.S. prestige. Last week architects and interior designers fought against deadline odds to come up with alternative plans for a new exhibit that will cost approximately $10 million. At the same time, a Soviet delegation dedicated the construction site of the $20 million Russian pavilion. In solitary splendor, it will soar 300 ft. high, just to the north of where its U.S. counterpart would have stood...
...Hovercraft is becoming less of a novelty and more of a serious mode of transportation. A vehicle that skims on a cushion of air over land, ice or water, the Hovercraft carried 370,000 passengers on brief trips along the St. Lawrence River during Expo 67 and proved to be one of the fair's most popular attractions. Now it is being used for such diverse purposes as ferrying passengers between British coastal resort towns and hunting down Viet Cong in the swamps of the Mekong Delta...