Word: minirail
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...Expo 67 can miss seeing the U.S. pavilion. The 20-story geode sic dome looms like a rising sun over the 1,000-acre site on the St. Lawrence; the heavily traveled minirail zips right through it, and every day an aver age of 5,000 people an hour line up to get in. Unquestionably, Architect Buckminster Fuller's bubble is a huge success; but the high-camp, soft-sell show inside is quite another matter. For in choosing to combine levity with patriotism, the designers of the U.S. exhibit have let themselves in for a scorching controversy...
Among the early critics was Michigan's Governor George Romney, who stalked through the pavilion in mid-May. Snapped Romney afterward: "It was pretty on the outside but full of trivia on the inside. When you go through it on the minirail all you see is blowup pictures of Hollywood actors and actresses. I was bitterly disappointed...
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