For thousands of years, silk produced by domestic silkworms has been a widely sought fair textile material.
It's not fair because material, money, is more important here than everything.
We see relics of the fair's material life — tickets, program books, an accounting ledger — along with a sampling of its dizzying variety: a stuffed bird of paradise used as a hat ornament, an enormous femur from a Brachiosaurus.
This area has a more lo-fi feel than the rest of the fair; the materials for the spaces are brown paper, MDF, polystyrene blocks.
"You get a fair amount of material loss when you disassemble," Mr. Culbreth said.
And although between them they hold a fair amount of material, they only graze the surface of their huge subject.
Solo84 insists that fan sites comply with the legal guidelines for fair use of material and contends that Fox is overzealous.
He lays out in an easily digestible way a fair amount of material on trip patterns, traffic safety and air pollution.
Such characterizations set a loose tone early in the article, which went on to include a fair amount of material that reached well past the serious, and better documented, allegations surrounding Mr. Wright and Mr. Somary.
Everything about Mr. Catsimatidis's campaign is outsize, from his budget for television commercials to the platters of Italian meats served at his friend-raisers to how he gets around: in a luxurious black Mercedes-Benz sedan scarred by a fender bender suffered at a street fair in Brooklyn ("Material things don't matter," Mr. Catsimatidis said afterward).
Prine is still touring and still making records — his last collection of original material, "Fair and Square," came out in 2005 — but this album offers an opportunity to hear the earliest glimmerings of what Bob Dylan has described as "Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree".
