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It’s a guarantee that forms the very cornerstone of Las Vegas, an empire of gilded beauty. It’s a promise that has woven dramatic fantasies out of twinges of desire, and mind-numbing addictions out of vague curiosity. Do not doubt the mythological power of the instant win. The mere concept has been enough to provoke amateur card players into dreaming of the potentials and the possibilities, the becomings and the will-bes. No thinking, all intuition. No work, all play. This is the beauty of luck...
...play with nonlinear narratives, story lines that jump around in time. It's a light show, but it expects its viewers to pay much closer attention than did the sitcoms of a generation ago (as does Emmy-winning 30 Rock, which is shot through with inside jokes and tightly woven callbacks to past episodes...
...person who did not leave Chelsea alone was her father. In acclaimed historian Taylor Branch's new book The Clinton Tapes - woven from Branch's recorded conversations with the President from 1993 to 2001 - the portrait of the relationship between Bill Clinton, a man who never knew his own father, and his daughter reveals a side we rarely saw on the public stage. Bill Clinton, it turns out, raised a daughter and ran the free world, sometimes in that order...
...trounced Carter in New York. Expecting Kennedy to be defeated, I had originally drafted a statement for him to deliver on the night of that primary that was not just a concession but also a withdrawal from the race. Though the speech wasn't given, its language would be woven into the convention speech two months later. (See a pictorial tribute to Ted Kennedy...
...Hewn from a mixture of volcanic stone, wood and palm, the property is as much a showcase for indigenous crafts as it is a sanctuary for conscientious globe-trotters. Local adobe art adorns the walls of its seven suites (priced from $225 a night), bed runners are woven by the women of a nearby village, and furnishings are antique and hand-carved. (See Time.com/Travel for city guides, stories and advice...