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What Las Vegas has instead is Steve Wynn, a casino king who is the son of a compulsive gambler and has an eye disease that could make him blind; who in his late 30s took up steer roping, wind surfing, rock climbing, motocrossing, jet skiing and body building; who once called Donald Trump "twinkle toes"; who let Frank Sinatra pinch his cheek in a commercial for his casinos; who divorced his wife, never moved out and remarried her five years later; and who shot off his index finger two years ago while handling a pistol in his office...
...roots in several decades. Steve Bloom, music editor of High Times, points to the bebop-jazz musicians of the '40s as influences on many pro-pot hip-hop performers. Re-Hash Records has released Marijuana's Greatest Hits Revisited, new versions of reefer songs written between the '30s and '70s. "We didn't start this," acknowledges B-Real of the rap group Cypress Hill, who says he smokes pot almost every day. "We're the newest to hit with it. We're revitalizing the pot movement...
...case, self-pity congeals to make a hard shell. The Serbs are indifferent to mere world opinion. Their leaders have manipulated them to obduracy. So Bosnia becomes another parable (savoring ominously of the '30s) of the primary human mystery, the beast potential in everyone. Sometimes the beast can be talked out -- negotiated out -- and calmed and recivilized. But the bully-beast loves to play with the people's hopeful illusions. Sometimes the beast, once risen among us, needs to be beaten until it is helpless to harm any longer. Sometimes it simply needs to be killed...
...Bellini supplied the prototypes for one side of early Titian, his suave construction of pictorial space and pragmatic realism. Then, equally fundamental, there is Giorgione, Titian's exact coeval, but dead "of exhaustion as much as the plague," as one literary mourner obscurely put it, in his early 30s. So little is known about Giorgione's life that the interplay of influence between the two young artists will probably never be fully sorted out. Our ignorance of it has given rise to innumerable wrangles over which paintings can be ascribed to early Titian and which to Giorgione...
...girl who told him they were thinking of moving into the apartment complex where he and his mother live. A day later, the girl phoned to ask Justin to join her at a Burger King. The girl picked him up in a car driven by a woman in her 30s whom she identified as a friend...