Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that D'Amato's bring-home-the-bacon image is phony. Through all the scandals that have beclouded D'Amato--his relatives and friends got federally funded houses; his brother got to use D'Amato's Senate office as a lobbyist's suite--many voters have clung to one idea: D'Amato may be a blackguard, but he's their blackguard, grabbing whatever he can for the state. Schumer argues that D'Amato has been bad for New York because he voted to cut funding for schools, hospitals, highways and the environment. When D'Amato holds a press conference...
...idea of noble blood is an anachronism that most of us would willingly ditch as we enter a new millennium. But there is a certain nobility in the independence of the Lords. The hereditary peers owe their position to no living person. They are therefore free to think and act as they choose. In British public life,which is heavily dominated by political parties, that is a valuable asset...
...find something exhilarating in the idea of sweeping away the cobwebs of the past, of looking for new ways to give people a real voice in the process of government. Yet at the same time, I feel an abiding fondness for the great traditions of our history. In the end, reason must decide. There is no denying the unfairness of a system that gives legislative power to men (of course 98% of them are men) just because they were born into the right family...
...course, it is promotion--in part. Why should the idea of starting an art collection in Vegas seem so odd? Basically because Las Vegas--the Disney World of terminal public greed--is a city in which every cultural citation is fake, so that the real thing feels out of place. The city is built on simulation, quotation, weird unconvincing displacements, in which cultural icons are endlessly but never convincingly quoted. Here is the Luxor Hotel, that huge silly pyramid with its plaster Anubises and fiber-glass Amon-Ras, its cavernous interior housing a facsimile of the Manhattan skyline. Here, under...
...there will be some very unhappy investors. "The driving feature of Vegas will always be gambling, but the days of giving away rooms to gamblers are over," says Stephen Bollenbach, CEO of Hilton, which is building the $760 million re-creation of Paris. The idea now is to command better room rates, more on a par with resort or European vacation destinations, by offering comparable accommodations. A discounted room on the Strip now goes for $49 to $99. To sleep in Hilton's Paris will probably cost double that...