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...Which of your TV movies had the best title: The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch, Satan's School for Girls or One of My Wives Is Missing...
DIED. WAYNE MCALLISTER, 92, West Coast architect whose flamboyant hotels and drive-in restaurants monumentalized America's car culture; in Arcadia, Calif. The neon gulch of casino classics he carved in Las Vegas included the El Rancho and Sands. In Los Angeles, one of his Bob's Big Boy eateries is a state landmark...
Originally, he became interested from reading The New York Times and Showdown at Gucci Gulch, which recounts Bradley's efforts in the 1986 Tax Reform Bill...
...works of Kublai Wynn, the Bellagio especially. Never was a city built and embellished in such opposition to its own environment. The Mormons tried settling this parched valley, nothing but dust, rocks and Gila monsters, in the 1850s; they failed. In 1905 it was set up as a dry-gulch railroad town handling transshipments of fruits and vegetables from California to the Midwest. Labor strikes all but destroyed the railroad, and with it Las Vegas, in the 1920s. And then, in the '30s, three things made the place possible. Nevada legalized gambling and quickie divorce, and the New Deal created...
...animals' behavior is not so much altered as stage-managed. To the visitor, that lion and lioness sunbathing on Pride Rock look close enough...well, close enough to eat you. But they are separated from the tram by an unseen gulch too wide for the beasts to straddle. The savanna where they roam was once drab cow pasture, but every weed and rut has been meticulously contoured and art-directed to resemble an African plain. Disney's Imagineers did a convincing makeover. When Franklin Sonn, the South African ambassador to the U.S., saw the place last month, he said, "This...