Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...higher costs of the fancier hotels will make breaking even a bit more daunting. Wynn needs to take in a record $2.5 million a day to make the new Bellagio pay for itself. "Lot of money, eh?" he says, winking. "Guess how much the Mirage made a day last year? $1.7 million." He shrugs at the idea that he might end up cannibalizing his own ranks of gamblers at the Mirage. "We're just going to change the pecking order. The other casinos will just move down a notch," he says...
...bubble dress, colored tights and roulette trousers, now wants to do something really big: he plans to build a 435-ft.-high fluorescent obelisk near the site of the old Alexandria lighthouse in Egypt. This column, a model of which was unveiled last week, will be a little fancier than the one that tumbled into the sea about 600 years ago. It will be made of concrete covered in mirrored glass, with 16,500 computer-controlled lights inside, and will cast colored light beams 43 miles out to sea. The Egyptian government has approved the plan, and only the small...
...mind requires and retains whole libraries of facts. His spirit loves good food, good drink, pretty and witty women. His body tolerates terrific burdens. He wears out whole squads of secretaries. He talks down platoons of men who have hated and now love him. He is no umbrella-fancier, and he carries a cane not to support his 65-year-old body but to prod, strike and point with. He is persistent. The way he got the unwilling Lord Beaverbrook into his Cabinet was to call him up every two hours, day and night, for 36 hours. He knows...
...season progressed, Mayer discovered the perks of being a Harvard athlete. The equipment was fancier, a laundry service cleaned her dirty jersies and instead of the worn green vinyl seats of Rhinebeck buses, Harvard had reclining cushioned numbers with televisions in the aisles...
...from its premiere at a tiny Left Bank venue in 1953, Godot seized the theatrical imagination. By reducing what occurs on the stage to essentials, Beckett expanded the horizon of the possible. Oh--and he made it funny. A fancier of the music hall and silent-film comedians, Beckett turned his stranded souls into entertainers. They dance, do calisthenics, trade philosophies and insults, do a giddy hat-switching routine. They could be Neil Simon's Sunshine Boys: wizened vaudevillians replaying the same old effective shtick for 50 years. They know the absurdity of their plight, yet like every Beckett character...