Word: expositioneers
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"Let the good times roll!" exulted Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards when he opened the World's Fair in New Orleans last May. Alas, the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition has seen nothing but hard times. The fair has been losing $1 million a week; average daily attendance has been 40...
Why did the World's Fair fail so abysmally? Some blame a poor marketing strategy, others the $15 admission price. It may also be that the attraction of the onetime, small-scale exposition is over, outmoded by well-promoted, futuristic extravaganzas like Walt Disney's Epcot Center in...
"My Red Joystick," for instance, is an indecipherable while about--it seems--patrimony, while "Endlessly Jealous" is yet another boring exposition of his marital squabbling. Meanwhile, 'Doin' the Things That We Want To" is a simplistic (albeit catchy) tribute to Sam Shephard and Martin Scorcese (but does Reed truly admire...
Like all of Inge's best plays, Sheba is slight of plot but musky with atmosphere. An alcoholic chiropractor (Philip Bosco) and his slatternly wife (Shirley Knight) live in a dreary house in the Midwest, diverted from maudlin introspection only by their boarder, a sprightly college student (Mia Dillon...
Some exhibitions were disappointing no-shows. An early boast that Jacques Cousteau would make his own watery contribution did not turn out to be true. Belize, Honduras and the Dominican Republic were planning a rain forest that has not yet fully emerged from the mists. Nor should visitors expect the...