Word: nevadas
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...the kind of art critic who spends all his time in museums. He's the kind who finds himself trudging up the side of Mont Ste.-Victoire, the peak in Provence that was Paul Cézanne's perennial motif. Or getting lost in the darkness of the Nevada desert while pondering Michael Heizer's massive earthworks. Or setting out to visit the world's largest collection of light bulbs, only to detour to a museum of hunting decoys, musing all the while on the history of connoisseurship and the evolving notion of the marvelous...
...valley below Nevada's Snake mountains should not have much to fear from Las Vegas. Its dun-colored terrain daubed with the green of shrubs, meadow grasses and crops lies some 200 miles north of the roaring, metastasizing metropolis for which the state is most famous. But the 1.7 million people of greater Las Vegas may have designs on the fewer than 1,000 people of Snake Valley--or rather, on their water...
...more confrontational words [in this part of the country]," says Cecil Gardner, a rancher on the Utah side of the valley, "than 'We're going to take your water.'" But there should be ample water to go around, counters a composed Patricia Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, adding, "Where else exactly would they like...
...large gathering?from Japan's Summer Sonic to Scotland's T in the Park?is without its gaudy glut of sponsors' logos. But for those who rail against the commodification of culture, there is always Burning Man (burningman.com). Now in its 19th year, this arts festival in the Nevada desert remains inexplicably free of meddling from high rollers and brand managers. At its heart is Black Rock City, a temporary community of some 30,000 outlandishly dressed souls who make camp for six days (Aug. 29-Sept. 5 this year) with the aim of expressing themselves through music, exhibitions...
RECOVERING. HARRY REID, 65, Senate minority leader; from a brief ministroke that did not require hospitalization; in Searchlight, in his home state of Nevada...