Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...November, Cirque du Soleil starts its permanent residence at Las Vegas' Treasure Island resort, a move which will most likely necessitate more sequins and sound effects. It's probably a good idea to catch this act now, while it retains its unique, seductive appeal...
...helicopters fired into a crowd in Mogadishu, apparently killing or wounding more than 100 people, including women and children. U.N. peacekeeping officials insisted the shooting was a last resort to save the lives of U.N. troops who were being attacked. The attackers on the ground, supporters of fugitive warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded two more and also wounded two Americans. The U.S. Senate, increasingly concerned about the situation, passed a resolution urging that the President seek congressional approval if he wants to keep the troops there beyond...
...scenic -- and relatively sophisticated and pricey -- Park City, Utah. "We wanted a smaller town that was on the upswing," says Doyle. From there he now sends stories almost daily to his employer, Computer Reseller News, in Manhasset, New York. Bruce Tipple, 48, moved to the same mining town turned resort from Minneapolis seven years ago and set up shop custom- designing training systems for Toshiba, Syntex and other large corporations. "With data communication and computers and faxes, distance is not an issue," he says. "We have easy access to our markets, most of which are on the West Coast...
...bifurcated himself, falling into dreamy spells to escape the hubbub. Lacking a reliable father figure, he tells himself that regimentation will make a man of him. All he has to do is pass that entrance exam, and that's where McLeod, inhabiting a gloomy mansion in the Maine resort town where Chuck and family are vacationing, comes in. Pretty soon McLeod is talking out of both sides of his mouth -- a stern taskmaster one minute, an indulgent mentor the next -- and little Chuck is flourishing in the company of the first grownup male who has ever taken him seriously...
...Hamptons. The album opens with the stinging No Man's Land, a rant anthem to the area's cultural deforestation ("Give us this day our daily discount- outlet merchandise,/ Raise up a multiplex and we will pay the sacrifice"), and closes with Famous Last Words, a snapshot of a resort town after Labor Day ("Nothing left for a dreamer now,/ Only one final serenade"). With vocal vigor and melodies that evoke the Beatles, the Kinks or Blood, Sweat and Tears but are tweaked to sound fresh, the piano man sells angst and redemption to the bar crowd...