Word: las
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DIED. DAVID STRICKLAND, 29, film and TV actor who played a music critic on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan and has a role in the current release Forces of Nature; of an apparent suicide; in Las Vegas. Strickland, who was due to appear in court last week as part of his probation for an October cocaine-possession arrest, was found hanged in a motel room...
...lessons of Velazquez's Las Meninas, which Sargent had copied in the Prado, sank very deep into his style and would produce curious effects tinged with melancholy, like the brilliant early portrait of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit--four slightly alienated-looking moppets, their white pinafores gleaming in a cavern of bourgeois shadow...
...exciting places, the text subtly takes on the feeling of each different country. When Keelin wanders through the Tokyo night life the descriptions take on a hard, bright, almost neon like quality. As she sweats through sickness in Central America a fuzzy magic-realism pervades. New York and Las Vegas become the barren, American suburban talk-show circuit. Like the text, Keelin is subtly changed by each new location, making a journey that began as a quest for someone else her own. Even as she moves towards real independence, though, Keelin is snared by the complexities and false promises...
Before his injury, Killar was having a terrific season, placing third at the Cliff-keen Invitational in Las Vegas and boasting a record...
Like kids in a candy store, my friends and I stared dumbfounded at this adult playground and its myriad options. The bars swarmed with Good Time regulars watching a Celtics game, while alternate screens aired less popular figure-skating championships. Good Time's "Las Vegas night" drew a large gray-haired contingent, honing in on their poker prowess and amassing piles of plastic chips. The bumper cars immediately caught our eyes; we navigated toward the rink, through a tattooed cluster of Metallica Tee shirts and crotch-length skirts...