Before the first festival even opened, it was attacked for using a jury to pick shows, which, the argument went, violated the spirit of the movement, started by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the middle of the last century.
It's a cliche that the Edinburgh fringe is a middle-class event but, even taking that into account, something is changing in the relationship between class and fringe comedy.
The Moiré fringes in the middle region and stain contrast in the outer region suggest the core/shell structure.
The relative size of middle and fringe may have shifted, but surely not their relative weight.
The fringe remains largely white, middle class, confident and, despite some advances this year, non-disabled.
Tseng aimed for the pin, tucked in the back, not far from the fringe, instead of the middle, and her ball flew the green, After a nice chip, she missed her par putt for a two-stroke swing.
Not really sick, not too sick to think, just too sick to be in the middle of Fringe Crazy.
The verdant island is bang in the middle of typhoon alley and is also on the fringe of the monsoon belt of South-East Asia. South-East Asia
As a result of this juxtaposition of cold air and warm air, the eastern sides of continents and the western fringes of oceans in middle and high latitudes are the preferred locations for extratropical storm development.
Now it's different," says Lam, 40, who grew up on what was then the western fringe of Hanoi in the middle of fields of rice and cherry blossoms, kumquat and peach trees.
