Word: boardwalk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest in 24 hours." Wynn told reporters that the owner was so surprised "he almost dropped dead." Also scrambling to open casinos are Playboy Enterprises, which plans to build a new hotel, and Penthouse International, which has acquired the Four Seasons Motel and Holiday Inn on the Boardwalk...
...potential casino owner certain to be the subject of scrutiny is Morris Shenker, who put up $10 million to buy the President Motor Inn on the Boardwalk. Formerly one of Jimmy Hoffa's lawyers, he is part owner of the Dunes Hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Because of Shenker's links with a scandal-ridden Teamsters Union pension fund, he has been investigated off and on for more than 20 years by the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the Nevada gaming commission. Mob activity in Atlantic City...
...problem of mass tourism-3 million visitors a year shepherded round the Acropolis by yammering guides, 6 million feet setting up their cumulative (and, says UNESCO, destructive) vibrations in the stone. The only solution to that seems to be to reorganize the traffic flow by restricting tourists to a boardwalk around the monuments. The idea of a Parthenon "restored" with fiber-glass replicas, girdled by lines of tourists trudging along a viewing ramp, may be depressing, but it also may be better than no Parthenon...
...near-biblical euphoria of Election Day still vibrates along the sagging boardwalk and ravaged back streets of Atlantic City. Since New Jersey's voters overwhelmingly approved a proposal to legalize casino gambling in that neglected aunt of Eastern resorts, money has poured into the city as if gold had been found beneath its soiled beaches. Downtown real estate values have soared 200% or more as speculators and promoters of every ilk and bilk rush to make the démodée dowager a belle again ?and so prepare to wring the belle of millions of restless Eastern betting chips expected...
...stage is hazily backlit, giving the impression that Springsteen is hanging out on a corner under a street-lamp in the early morning, trying his best to be like Brando or James Dean; during others, garishly bright colored lights are used, lie at an amusement park along the Boardwalk...