Word: vegasized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While visiting the desert metropolis of Las Vegas for a weekend, I was appalled by the amount of money being blown by casino owners like Steve Wynn who aim to duplicate the world's most famous locales [SHOW BUSINESS, Oct. 26]. I've been going to Vegas for more than...
I doubt this new, arty Vegas will attract the likes of the Astors and Rockefellers, and Joe Blow from Omaha may be a little intimidated. Steve Wynn and the other corporate boys are going to need some of the luck that everybody wishes for when they go to Las Vegas...
Las Vegas now seems like a giant strip mall of world travel: let's see it faster; let's have it newer; let's not have to go far from home to visit it. Here's a suggestion to my fellow Americans: Go take a stroll along the shores of...
By chance, I was an overnight guest at the Bellagio the week Steve Wynn's $1.6 billion Las Vegas hotel with the $300 million art collection opened, and I have one question that was left unanswered even by the extensive coverage in TIME: Why didn't Wynn spend more of...
What brings out what the psychologists call pricing behavior even in my wife is the Las Vegas custom of emphasizing how much any new hotel costs--a custom I think of as conspicuous capitalization. If a hotel boasts about costing $1.6 billion, it's no wonder that my wife--who...