Large attendance could go a long way toward helping raise the funds needed for the permanent home that Mr. Nanavati, 56, describes as "so needed".
In 1983, he decided to create a carousel based on the theme of New York, which he describes as "so rich in experience and in cultural traditions".
After nine years of abuse from a man she describes as so controlling that she wasn't allowed her own purse, let alone bank card or driving licence, she had finally been pushed over the edge.
Mr. Oliver first came to London 12 years ago, when he was 16, to attend Westminster Catering College, a school he describes as so old and traditional that students carried their knives in a sheaf at their side.
From catcalls and casual remarks to stories of rape and sexual assault, through Twitter and its blog the project brings attention to instances of sexism both serious and minor, or what it describes as "so niggling and normalised that you don't even feel able to protest".
Ms. Horton, the farthest thing from an art-world aesthete, had never heard of Pollock when she purchased a canvas she describes as so ugly that she tried to give it away to a friend ("We were going to throw darts at it," she recalls), but it wouldn't fit through the door of her friend's trailer.
Almost from the moment they married in 1987, the couple had been real estate gypsies, living first in Mr. Grenier's TriBeCa loft with his roommates ("I told him married people don't have roommates," Ms. Grenier said), then in a Downtown Brooklyn loft that she describes as so enormous "you needed Rollerblades to go to the bathroom".
Barbecue might not sound very midwestern, but Chicago hosts a major annual pit master competition that Sandra Ziles, Marks and Spencer's head of product development, describes as "so good we had to visit it twice", while Kansas City, Missouri, has been dubbed the barbecue capital of America.
