Fairs: Out of the Bull Rushes

Pick up your left foot, pick up your right, Walk away from every care.

This is your fun time, you are entitled to it, Fair is Fair.

And Moses is Moses. This week, in the world's most glamorous ex-dump, feet were being picked up in double time to the tune of Richard Rodgers' official Fair Is Fair march to prove that when Robert Moses says there is going to be a world's fair in Flushing Meadow in 1964, there damn well will be a fair.

In the flat-roofed headquarters building, the electronic countdown clock...

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