Word: mountainize
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...first semester at Radcliffe College, Kumin, who had just turned 17, placed into an advanced writing course taught by Wallace Stegner. Stegner would garner critical acclaim one year later for his largely autobiographical novel “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” but when Kumin first met him, he was still a relatively obscure member of Harvard’s English Department. Stegner’s sharp-tongued manner of speaking to students, as Kumin recalls, belied the sensitive prose that would define his fiction in later years...
...Steve Wynn. After all, Wynn turned a city that was a pit stop for male vice into an international family destination. Expectations that he was going to top his past extravaganzas were so huge that when he started construction on the lush, waterfall-laden, 140-ft. man-made mountain in front of his new hotel, the rumor in town was that he was building a ski resort on the Strip. But Wynn Las Vegas, which opened last week, exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme, no showstopper like the volcano he built outside the Mirage...
...building as understated, in Vegas terms, he's right. There are low ceilings, short hallways and lots of nooks that make the place feel intimate and isolated. In a radical break from casino logic, there is natural sunlight everywhere, and all the restaurants and bars have outdoor seating. The mountain shields the hotel from the Strip, so you feel as if you're separated from the insanity, even though it's just outside. It's like doing Vegas from a luxury...
Wynn came up with the idea for the mountain as a way to block the view of the aluminum spaceship-- themed entrance to the Fashion Show Mall across the street. "A lot of these guys will hire architects and designers to come up with ideas. Steve is the driving force in all his buildings," says Frank Fertitta III, 43, the CEO of Station Casinos and a longtime friend, one of the group of young Vegas tycoons Wynn calls his "homeboys...
...Chinese town of Zhongdian and the surrounding region were officially renamed Shangri-La. Whether visitors are genuinely attracted by the area's claim to be the location of James Hilton's classic 1930s novel Lost Horizons, or whether they come (as they always have done) for the spectacular mountain scenery and ethnic Tibetan culture, isn't clear. But what is indisputable is the local tourism boom, facilitated by massive infrastructure projects-from a new airport five years ago to new highways today. What will visitors who make it to this once fabled and remote part of Yunnan province want when...