Word: las
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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16TH ANNUAL TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Top members of the P.G.A. tour compete for $150,000 at the Las Vegas Stardust Country Club. Coverage continues on Sunday...
...Hughes's advisers speculated that perhaps $12 billion in gold remained buried in the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains. The investment was peanuts compared with the gold mines Hughes has already picked up. In 15 months he has spent $125 million in the state, last month closed deals for Las Vegas' Stardust Hotel ($30.7 million) and Silver Slipper Saloon ($5,400,000) and their gambling casinos, giving him six hotels and 15% of all the action in Nevada...
...average museumgoer, on the other hand, will be mystified by a large gallery full of airy, forgettable abstract canvases. These are meant to support the French thesis that Paris, and not New York, invented abstract expressionism in the 1950s (the French call their version tachisme, or staining). Hélas pour la grandeur, for just the reverse is shown. By comparison with the work turned out by the dynamic U.S. action painters, the French products look timid, prettified and unconvincing?with a few exceptions, most notably the stark abstractions of Pierre Soulages...
...notice, according to Truax's boss, ABAG Executive Director Warren Schmidt. For the past 13 months, Truax apparently had been treating the brown-paper bonanza as personal mail. Investigators said that he had deposited the checks-including one for $399,649-in bank accounts under various names. In Las Vegas, he was known as Troy Thompson and carried a California driver's license in that name...
...Ernst, he has been working in three dimensions ever since 1934, but his later sculptures have grown less spiky and beaky, more solid - and yet, elusive. His most recent series of massive limestone figures, which he Las been working on since 1965, emphasize his profound disillusionment with the state of the world. "If you look at the first page of the newspaper," says Ernst, "you feel such overwhelming disgust for everything going on in the world that you must echo this." In his gigantic stone monoliths, Ernst's angst becomes monumental. The figures are droll and disquieting, monstrous...