Word: vegasized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adelson made a fortune in the trade-show business, and he financed some of the Venetian's construction by selling Comdex, the world's biggest trade show, for $900 million. Although Las Vegas does plenty of convention business, Adelson wants to compete for the monster shows that now go to...
The Venetian is a study in duplication. Everything from the Doges Palace to the Campanile was built virtually to scale of the original. Craftsmen labored at a workshop in suburban Las Vegas, turning out hand-chiseled columns and marble floors to the exact specifications of an architectural historian imported from...
Adelson is trying to bring a new ingredient to the basic Las Vegas hotel rooms: comfort. The bathrooms in the all-suite Venetian are the size of standard hotel rooms. He spent $9 million just to create step-down living rooms in each suite, to impart the feeling of luxury...
SENTENCED. JEREMY STROHMEYER, 20, convicted molester and murderer of seven-year-old Sherrice Iverson; to life in prison without parole; in Las Vegas. Strohmeyer asked for forgiveness but blasted his former friend David Cash for watching the brutal crime without intervening, saying of Cash, "He makes me sick."
The title of her story collection is borrowed from a late novel by Mary McCarthy, who lifted the name from Audubon's celebrated book of avian engravings. But Moore might as well have used Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Freud's classic essay on humor. The bemused and...