Word: hiltonization
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...reputation as a Mob town infatuated with scuzzy strippers and sleazy comics, Las Vegas today is a leading family-resort destination, with theme parks, water parks and high-tech arcades in nearly every new hotel. And where families go, wholesome entertainment follows. That's one reason the Flamingo Hilton, the house that gangster Bugsy Siegel built, hired the Rockettes, whose high kicking and higher kitsch remind us that their brand of dance is as much a part of 20th century culture as anything choreographed by Balanchine or Berkeley...
...Craig Hilton Collie, Australia
...opening ceremony will be held this morning at the Back Bay Hilton hotel...
...residential space has pushed rents to Hong Kong and Tokyo levels. As a result, many investors would rather replace the old three-story buildings with office towers. Late last year Hanoians looked on in wonder as demolition crews razed the historic--though architecturally undistinguished--prison known as the ``Hanoi Hilton,'' where hundreds of captured American servicemen spent much of the war. In its place, a Singapore developer plans a 22-story hotel-and-office complex...
...read this, I am in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, looking for another ideal. I picture ivory sand and a red and white yacht, the sound of tennis balls being hit, men in broadrimmed hats and white linen suits and the sweet tones of a gentrified, articulate southern accent...