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...entrance, 14 floors up a 205-ft. escalator to the World's glass roof, the visitor is greeted by two huge sculptured mimes and two living counterparts who bow a welcome. Next comes a "Renaissance Midway," lined with circus wagons exhibiting such Krofftian put-ons as the Fat Lady, who turns out to be a performer garbed as a super-porker, and the Tattooed Lady, who is costumed as the world's only sexy rhino. Melody pours from a marvel designed by one Nick O'Lodeon, which features 29 instruments. A belly dancer gyrates, jugglers toss balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Fantasia in a Gulch | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

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