Word: glittered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Million Bonanaza in Glitter Gulch, Paradise A and Paradise...
...center of town, "Glitter Gulch," the greatest concentration of inert gas in the world, now casts a neon glow for 30 miles into the desert. Along Highway 91, on which the Californians stampede into Vegas in their Cadillacs at the rate of 20,000 each weekend, lies the Strip, a celebrated three-mile stretch of real estate bounded by seven enormous, luxury hotels. The Strip represents a capital investment of $40 million, and is incorporated (in order to escape municipal taxes) as two townships. Their names: Paradise A and Paradise...
...Glitter Gulch, the approach to the tourist is straightforward. The Golden Nugget, a large gambling house in the heart of the Gulch, is the richest vein in the big rock candy mountain of Las Vegas. It offers no entertainment, just a multitude of ways to gamble, from wheels of fortune and penny slots to big-time poker games in the back rooms. In Paradise (A or B), the atmosphere is more subtle: air conditioning, deckle-edged swimming pools (with extravagant poolside displays of bathing beauties), fine food at fair prices, top entertainment, well-irrigated golf courses. But all are mere...
...Rourke; Vera-Ellen and a tap-dancing reporter in 1953's Call Me Madam). As the princess in Paramount's new picture, Roman Holiday, the newcomer named Audrey Hepburn gives the popular old romantic nonsense a reality it has seldom had before. Amid the rhinestone glitter of Roman Holiday's make-believe, Paramount's new star sparkles and glows with the fire of a finely cut diamond. Impertinence, hauteur, sudden repentance, happiness, rebellion and fatigue supplant each other with lightning speed on her mobile, adolescent face...
This modern age has swamped the aspiring beauty with a dazzling treasure to glitter. Indeed, this is but a glorified hangover from primitive cultures. Why even the Ubangi maidens, frolicking around the breadfruit trees, knew the value of the earhoop. Civilization has reduced the size but this season offers mobiles, ceramics, circlets, danglers, buttons, and enamelled flowerettes...