Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week's opening-night audience, though, was outfitted in formal evening wear--1,800 exponents of money and glamour. It was just the sort of crowd Steve Wynn would like to see at his new hotel every night. So would the other high-rolling master builders in this high-desert fantasyland. Like an aging chorine who learns a little French and buys a Chanel frock in hopes of attracting an upper-crust beau, Las Vegas is smarting itself up to snag ritzier visitors...
...sail through the air or dive from a 60-ft. pedestal into the pool that occupies much of the huge stage. O could stand for the oasis of sophistication Cirque represents with this production and its sister show, Mystere, at Treasure Island, on the four-mile Strip in the desert...
...casino, modeled after an Italian Riviera village, is the initial step in a plan to change that perception. Among the first to sample the Bellagio's attractions were several TIME staffers, who this week appraise the hotel and the city's attempts to draw a new audience to the desert. TIME's art critic, Robert Hughes, who surveyed the Bellagio's $300 million collection, which includes paintings by Picasso and Van Gogh, says the venue was no deterrent to enjoying some "very good" works. "I've seen art in restaurants," he says, "so why not in hotels?" Film critic Richard...
...seek theaccolades of his grandfather Arthur Winslow. Yearslater, Stuart in desperation decides to fall backon her sense of family honor so ritualisticallyingrained and return to her family's homestead inConcord, to a house near Walden Pond. Here sheexpects her children to learn to swim at the famedlocale. The children desert the pastoral settingfor a local pool, and Stuart out of some sense ofrestitution, a keen sense of the absurd and justflat out love of a story, is alright with this andin fact with all that goes on in the novel...
...Most of the instructors who do Outward Bound courses in the mountain, desert or oceans probably can't see what in the world [the GSE program] has do to with what they're doing," Truitt says...