It results in making fairground-style doughnuts far more often than is truly necessary, too.
Television entertainment in Britain becomes even more like a gladiatorial arena tomorrow when Guy Martin, the motorcycle daredevil, tries to break the world speed record for riding on a fairground-style "wall of death".
His finely carved and gaily painted horses, cats, cows, rabbits, pigs and donkeys created a new French style of fairground sculpture; trained craftsmen kept the tradition alive into the 1960s.
The event itself intended to advertise the United States as the new world power; the White City, a kind of gigantic fairground stage set, was a vision of a metropolis of the future, but one built in a neo-classical style that spoke of old world authority.
There is a beach bar serving cocktails, live bands and outdoor theatre, a giant paddling pool with zorb-style balls and fairground rides (until 2 September, nottinghamriviera.co.uk).
Musically, however, there's no denying he has developed a peculiar genius entirely his own, his songs illuminating the American experience from the gutter up, perfectly set within arrangements that draw on all manner of native styles, from folk to fairground, juke-joint to jazz, country to church, but which all bear the stamp of Waits's unique junkyard-blues sensibility.
The crowd at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta, N.J., swapped a buttoned-down style for one best described as country-festive, showing off straw hats, riotously colorful bandanas and meadow-sweeping patchwork skirts.
Autumn and Alison Davidson, bought caps at the fairgrounds, flipping them sideways because, as Alison, right, explained, "that's gangsta style".
Held this past weekend at the Fairground in Southeast Washington, DC, the bonanza brought together cross-pollinated strains of dirty South-style hip-hop and EDM-branded beats, an unholy matrimony that made a ton of sense and probably should have happened sooner.
"I've used purely historic English styles, not American – I'm not going to lie to you, the American fairground stuff is rubbish".
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