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...group in Washington, doling out large campaign contributions and wining and dining lawmakers. Like many other special interests, they are equal-opportunity givers, as attested to by a sampling of contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission. In 1996, Sheldon Adelson, whose Las Vegas Sands Inc. owns the new Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, contributed $100,000 to the Republican National State Election Committee and $105,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Steve Wynn's Mirage Resorts donated $226,500 to the Republican National Committee that same year. Wynn, who came late to bipartisan giving, would...
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...boasts the world's biggest Coke bottle, toy store and edifice complex. Now Las Vegas, having grown up so fast, wants to outgrow its tacky past. The new Venetian, Bellagio, Paris and Mandalay Bay hotels conjure fantasy excursions to faraway places--a gondola ride through an indoor canal ($12), say, or a trip to the top of the Eiffel Tower ($8). The frantic theming and ubiquitous Wolfgang Puck eateries--which make Vegas one of the best restaurant cities in the U.S.--are artful distractions from all that money visitors lose...
...decisively. This is what Picasso did for America and Europe in the 20th century. Perhaps less obviously, Velazquez did the same for Spain in the 17th century. He showed that the nation's painting need not be provincial, that it could be open to Europe and, especially, to such Venetian masters as Titian. Titian had made masterpieces for Philip II of Spain; now Velazquez would work on the same scale for Philip IV, grandson of Titian's patron. With Velazquez at the court, Spain no longer needed to import its talent from abroad...
...Because Vegas is attracting so many vacationers, it can afford to be more exclusive. Every new hotel is making a point to sell only to the "sophisticated" crowd--at the recently built Monte Carlo, Bellagio, Venetian and Paris hotels, there are no "showgirl" theatrics, the restaurants all demand at least $35 per person, Gucci and Versace dominate the in-hotel shopping malls and the miminum blackjack bet is $10. The cheesy glitz and glamour of the '80s Vegas has dissolved into a decadent celebration of pretentiousness in the '90s Vegas...