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PLAYING AROUND THE GLOBE: Vegas-style casinos are popping up from Britain to Singapore...
...shed its shame and its kitsch, that it will be a multidimensional one-industry town like Los Angeles, only more urban and with better food. Already the young and old come to Vegas without irony, and its widely copied faux architecture and grand showmanship are thought of around the globe as simply American. If New Vegas foretells something about America's future,then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost. The only thing I miss about it is that culture went to bed at a decent hour. --With reporting by Laura A. Locke/Las Vegas
Sources: New York Times (2); Washington Post (4); Boston Globe; Baltimore...
...will have completely shed its shame and kitsch, that it will be a multidimensional one-industry town like Los Angeles, only more urban and with better food. Already the young and old come to Vegas without irony, and its faux architecture and grand showmanship are thought of around the globe as simply American. If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost. The only thing I miss about it is that culture went to bed at a decent hour...
While my travel budget and my own physical limitations prevent me from saving the world myself, I can still visit the corners of the globe and thwart the many forms of evil I find there. And I can do it all in a quick thirty minutes, by living vicariously through the characters I watch: Aladdin, Hercules and Kim Possible. Genius, your name is Disney...