Word: las
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...valid as her social contributions have been, the IOP was no the place for her to extol them. It's no Las Vegas, Where her concert sold out last summer at $350 a head...
...from office of Eduardo Robledo, the p.r.i. governor whose August election--in the same balloting that elected Zedillo--was deemed fradulent by the rebels. With Zapatista backing, the losing p.r.d. candidate, Amado Avendano, has already been installed as symbolic head of a ``government in rebellion'' in San Cristobal de las Casas, the colonial state capital...
More than 90,000 glassy-eyed technology middlemen tramped through the cavernous Las Vegas Convention Center last week, looking for the best of what's new, what's hot and what's cool in Gadgetland and putting together their wish list for next Christmas. What they found was an electronic melting pot -- a million square feet of whirring appliances and beeping devices that are turning into one another faster than you can say digital convergence. Telephones are morphing into televisions. Televisions are evolving into computers. Computers are turning into video games. And they're spawning a new breed of gimcracks...
...endorsements, big hair and dates with Brooke Shields do not a tennis star make. But in a rare instance of substance overtaking hype, the hirsute Las Vegan became the first unseeded player ever to win the U.S. Open and instantly erased his image as young, gifted and slack...
Broadway isn't the only place for grand spectacle. At the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas, that Mecca of excess, the Montreal troupe Cirque du Soleil has created a gorgeously surreal, thrillingly theatrical pageant. Acrobats mingle with Adam and Eve, spaceship Earth and a giant snail in a fantasy of rebirth. It plays like the fever dream of some millennial impresario. Call him Siegfried Roy Webber...