Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With its ecologically pious displays of white tigers and dolphins -- and no topless show girls -- the almost tasteful Mirage has profoundly enlarged and updated the notion of Vegas amusement since it opened in 1989. The general Las Vegas marketing spin today is that the city is fun for the whole family. It seems to be an effective p.r. line, but it's an idea that the owners of the new Luxor and MGM Grand may have taken too much to heart...
...cover of Forbes (I'm guessing camera trick), and Vegas competing with Anaheim for the family-vacation market (if Treasure Island = Pirates of the Caribbean, and Excalibur = Cinderella's Castle, Mr. Toad's Wild Hotel and Casino must be next), magic is running a close third to Elvis spin-offs and female breasts as entertainments in Vegas...
...faith in one just and awesome God invited the comforting intercession of angels to bridge the vast divide. Fear of death and of eternal damnation inspired a belief in winged spirits who could move easily between the layers of the universe. Angels were said to move the stars, spin the planets, make plants grow and help creatures reproduce. They were there to do God's bidding, but also to ease man's arduous journey from corporeal to spiritual life...
...were these spin doctors trying to fool? As it turned out, Endeavour's exquisitely trained crew made Mission Impossible seem as simple as building a Lego-block spaceship. The "Dr. Goodwrenches," as Mission Control dubbed them, not only breezed through every job on their work order and a few more on the "just in case" list, but they also made it look like fun. "Piece of cake!" shouted Kathryn Thornton, perched atop the shuttle's 50-ft. robot arm as she sent a mangled solar-energy panel off into space like a falconer letting her bird take wing...
...Straus & Giroux; $15). Once upon one more time, we have the slightly dippy king who craves the answer to a riddle ("Why is your head gray and your beard black?"), the humble but clever man who provides it and the nasty court counselor who is jealous. Humility prevails and spin-doctoring fails, as invariably happens in stories. The author's angular tempera illustrations are vivid and funny -- the camel on which the king perches is an unusually thoughtful and sardonic beast -- but the somewhat preachy story doesn't add much...