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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spending a night last week at the Century Plaza Hotel's "Cyber Suite" in Los Angeles, Bob Dole could conceivably be reconsidering his plans to move into the ordinary White House. Filled with every imaginable high-tech gadget and computer-controlled indulgence, this $2,000-a-night, 2,000-sq.-ft. hotel room, unveiled in June, is a temple to technological excess. Guests can draw a bath, close the drapes, dim the lights or crank up the stereo simply by speaking commands into the Cyber Suite's electronic "Butler in a Box." There's a fully wired wide-screen...
...Square, and off leaps one of the world's most wildly imaginative entrepreneurs. It is Richard Branson, the raffish British tycoon who has splashed his company's Virgin logo on everything from airlines to a bridal service. The occasion: the opening of a $15 million, biggest-anywhere, 75,000-sq.-ft. new Virgin music-and-entertainment megastore...
...Times Square outlet boasts 250 listening posts and four Sony cinemas, inlaid-marble floors and an artist's replica of Michelangelo's Creation on the ceiling of the performance space in the classical section. In another testament to the company's shrewdness, Virgin paid a giveaway $18 per sq. ft. for the space that some 35 million people will walk by each year...
This week the outrageous Mr. Stupak unveils his outsize, outlandish, outer-space vision in an orgasmic burst of fireworks and flackery. The fourth tallest building in the U.S. (fifth, if you count the World Trade Center twice), the Stratosphere opens with 1,500 rooms and 97,000 sq. ft. of casino space, and a promenade with a handsomely designed World's Fair theme. By year's end Stupak hopes to have completed an additional 1,000 rooms, a retail mall, a giant pool and a King Kong-size gorilla ride--a 70-ft.-high mechanical ape that will climb...
...evidence of such brutality. Germany, Goldhagen writes, was "saturated" with prison camps where Jewish inmates were in essence worked to death under conditions scarcely better than those of the Eastern European killing fields. In the small state of Hesse alone there were 606 such camps, or one every 35 sq...