America's Best

摘要

World's fairs, those jamborees of national output-what ever happened to them? The Belgian waffles, the Futurama architecture, it all used to seem an important. Yet the U.S. didn't even bother to erect a pavilion for the one last year in Hanover, Germany. And, really, why should it have? Who needs to stand in line outside a geodesic dome to find out what America produces? Who needs a product-display center to discover Lucinda Williams? Or a monorail to take you to Philip Roth or Tom Ford? Anywhere in the world you find a movie screen or a museum, a bookstore or a TV, a clothing outlet or a computer terminal, you're at the entrance to the American pavilion.