Word: stomachal
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...stomach hurts. It's 7 A.M., and somehow person after person after person has persuaded me to pull an all-nighter so they can show me their little slice of Vegas--their glossy strip club, their late-night pool-cabana scene, their Studio 54, their swank ultralounge. And now, at an after-hours nightclub, the bass pumping, my eyes jolted open every few seconds by the shock of manufactured cleavage, they are offering me a beer. Not even a light beer. All I wanted was to see a nice Cirque du Soleil show, work my expense account at Le Cirque...
This New Vegas, this stomach-churning Vegas, was built from a scrap heap of roller coasters. When gambling popped up at every racetrack and lottery counter and on every riverboat and square foot where...
...good chunk of this growth is driven by people under 30, the ones who can spend money until at least 7 a.m., apparently with no significant stomach problems. Peter Morton, 56, the first to see that youth was an untapped market, in 1995 built the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in the middle of the sagebrush off the Strip. "It was totally intuitive," he says. That demo is funding the Richard Meier--designed tower he's building later this year. "Our demographics studies have shown that young people who come to Vegas are better educated, have more disposable income...
...Venetian, home to the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, the Bellagio houses a gallery that shows works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A good chunk of Vegas' growth is driven by people under 30, the ones who can spend money until at least 7 a.m., apparently with no significant stomach problems. Peter Morton, 56, the first to see that youth was an untapped market, built the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in the middle of the sagebrush off the Strip in 1995, and that demo is funding the Richard Meier-designed tower he's building later this year. "Our demographics studies...
...which seems to involve a lot of submission holds and smeared blood, may surpass both frat-house hazing and Mel Gibson films as the world's most homoerotic event. And while the hooting crowd is clearly loving it, my front-row seats are reminding me just how weak my stomach is. With all its clean bawdiness, the weirdest part of Vegas is that, for a tourist town, it looks as if it might be growing a real urban center, where people not only party but meet, live and perhaps form the kind of community Vegas has never...