Word: luxor
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...streets surrounding Lake Como at the $1.3 billion Bellagio, etc. etc. Where else in the world can you wake up and look out one window and see the Eiffel Tower (a half-size recreation stands over the Paris hotel); or look out another and see Egyptian pyramids at the Luxor or the Chrysler and Empire State Building at New York, New York? It's a substitution for culture--a fantasy of epic proportions stuck in the middle of a desert. Las Vegas is the greatest expression of our culture's current artistic sensibility (or lack...
...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 construction, is a casino in the form of the Doges Palace in Venice, complete with a small-scale version of the Campanile bearing a replica...
...company is now building the $1 billion Mandalay Bay development, to open in March 1999. The casino hotel, with a separate Four Seasons hotel on top and a monorail connecting it to the company's other properties, Excalibur and Luxor, will be set in a 12-acre park with a wavemaking machine in the lagoon. Says Schaeffer: "Nobody anywhere in the world is building resorts like Las Vegas...
...Kharga Oasis, some 125 miles southwest of Luxor, Egypt, is hardly the first place you'd think to look for mummies. No pyramids loom there; no mausoleums mark it as a portal through which Egyptian nobles entered the afterlife. Think of it as the Peoria of Pharaonic times, a backwater where ordinary peasants and farmers lived and died--and left pretty ordinary remains...
...biological attacks was very much a Hot Zone topic. Not to mention the more conventional terrorist technique of using bullets. Last week's shooting of U.S. accountants in Pakistan ? and who could be more harmless than an accountant? ? was followed by the horrendous machine-gunning of 60 tourists in Luxor, Egypt. The Islamic militants were only trying to take hostages, of course ? or so they...