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...hotel is making a point to sell only to the "sophisticated" crowd--at the recently built Monte Carlo, Bellagio, Venetian and Paris hotels, there are no "showgirl" theatrics, the restaurants all demand at least $35 per person, Gucci and Versace dominate the in-hotel shopping malls and the miminum blackjack bet is $10. The cheesy glitz and glamour of the '80s Vegas has dissolved into a decadent celebration of pretentiousness in the '90s Vegas...
...going to vote for the king of broads and blackjack, pre-nups and palaces in a year when the public is looking for a grownup as an antidote to Bill Clinton? "All my construction guys love me. The guy who picks up the bus at the Port Authority, gets $50 in chips and a ticket for the all-you-can-eat buffet and takes the missus to the Trump Taj Mahal, he loves me," says Trump. He takes further comfort in a National Enquirer poll that shows him at the front of the pack...
Never mind that Wall Street is wobbly, that Asia's gamblers are currency shocked or that most Americans are already no more than a tank of gas away from the nearest blackjack table. Las Vegas is on a $7 billion building jag, with 18 major hotel and casino projects scheduled to open before 2000. By the millennium, Vegas will have more rooms than New York City, Paris or Los Angeles and more slots than the U.S. Postal Service...
...Qianlong is moored for the night at Wushan, and next to it at the dock is a large boat with a neon sign for WUSHAN GODDESS ENTERTAINMENT CITY. Gambling is illegal in China, but this is a casino, open all day, with high-low dice games, blackjack and bingo. Laid-off workers crowd the tables, spending their last renminbi on a few rolls of the dice. The casino is run by an overweight Hong Konger who wears expensive jeans and a heavy gold watch but doesn't want to give his real name. Neither do his two formidable-looking bodyguards...
...admit it: Gambling can be bad. It is potentially addictive and destructive for the gambler, and as a visit to Las Vegas will reveal, its consequences in the community are considerable. But as for the "Casino Nights" in the Houses, dances with live jazz bands where students play blackjack with imaginary money for non-monetary prizes: Are these the latest sources of moral depravity in the City of Cambridge...