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The Knoxville International Energy Exposition is not a great and important fair like the great and important World's Fairs. The first of these was held in 1851 in London, where 14,000 exhibitors displayed the wonders of a new industrial age. The greatest wonder of all was the...
The Paris World's Fair of 1889 produced another herald of modern architectural engineering, Gustave Eiffel's 1,010-ft. tower. Except for the first Ferris wheel, the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 did not really advance structural engineering. But it was a dream...
Later World's Fairs-St. Louis (1904), San Francisco (1915), Chicago (1933-34), New York (1939-40 and 1964-65), Brussels (1958), Montreal (1967) and Osaka, Japan (1970)-never achieved the cultural and architectural importance of those early ones. Both New York fairs were gaudy happenings that turned architecture...
Some 2,500 construction workers are rushing to cover the fairground's red clay with sod, lay the roads and put the finishing touches on structures like the enormous Chinese-Egyptian-Peruvian pavilion before opening day. Most Knoxvillians are steeling themselves for a six-month influx of 11 million...
As for the supporting cast: Sarrazin is one big he-man blah: you have to wonder how Edwards can keep a straight face during his work, which is embarrassing; and Stevens demonstrates his dementia by alternately flaring his nostrils and holding his nose between his palms. He does, however, do...