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...Graceland, is a community based on faith. It is sustained by believers like Anna Zawicki, a street sultana taking her ease beneath the lavender awning of Bally's Park Place Casino Hotel, a giant grape Popsicle of a building at the midpoint of the world's most famous boardwalk. By her right side is a pair of stuffed raccoons; by her left, an airport luggage cart that holds her worldly possessions. Frank Sinatra croons to her from inside a boom box, and she accompanies him from time to time on a kazoo. "I like it here," she says...
...casino promoters bought a television ad that showed $100 bills falling from the sky, and Atlantic City's voters were as mesmerized as if they had been tourists on the Boardwalk gawking at horses diving into pools and typewriters bigger than elephants. On the day in 1976 when the state referendum passed, they danced in the streets. Today Atlantic City has enough class to bring Cher, the queen of camp, back to the concert stage, enough savvy to have harvested $2.73 billion in the last year from bettors in its casinos, and enough allure to be the most popular destination...
...Royals, who spent 19 years at a smaller stadium in Fort Myers, teamed up in 1988 with an amusement park located just southwest of "Mouse Town," the locals' term for Disney World. Boardwalk and Baseball, which dominates the skyline over surrounding orange groves, features both the Lipizzaner stallions and first baseman George Brett. For a dear $21, a fan can spend a day riding the roller coaster and taking in a contest at the Royals' 8,000-seat stadium, where some 400 major- and minor-league games were played last year...
...Parker Brothers are launching an attack on the motherland -- a Russian-language version of Monopoly. Although negotiations for the board game's actual introduction into the Soviet Union are still under way, Monopoliia will be unveiled on Oct. 17 at the World Monopoly Championship in London. Instead of Boardwalk, players will land on Arbat, a pedestrian mall in Moscow where Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev strolled during the May summit. All references to stocks, which are not sold in the Soviet Union, have been changed to bonds. But the familiar tokens -- the car, the dog, even the plutocrat...
ROADHOUSE (Scotti Brothers) A sure cure for the summertime blues. Exalted variations on the kind of tunes you can hear floating out the open door of any boardwalk joint on any muggy night...