Word: complexity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...three years that I've been in the Callbacks, the group has changed dramatically," he said. "This year has been an amazing time of growth. Musically, our arrangements have become much more complex and our sound is the tightest it's ever been...
Profits, gambling experts say, would be at least $1 million a day. Connecticut's two existing Indian casinos have already proved the potential. The Foxwoods casino, hard by the Rhode Island border and run by the Mashantucket Pequot tribe, is the largest-grossing gambling complex in the world. The Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, run by the Mohegan tribe, announced plans earlier this month for an $800 million expansion, including a 40-story hotel...
...early morning hours was at least partly justified. The curves in the road are extremely sharp, and even in daylight, the way between the two casinos is poorly marked and often confusing. Back on Mohegan Sun Boulevard, I take my first real look at the complex's exterior. The place is a monstrosity. The efforts taken in appointing the interior have clearly been spared on the casino's outside. Again I find myself at the end of the Sun's strip. I turn into the Winter Parking Lot and walk back to the casino. I expect a nearly empty house...
...race book and bingo rooms of the complex, empty last night, are beginning to fill up. Two hours before the big noon game, the bingo hall is easily half full, and a mob of senior citizens is lining up to buy their way in. Bingo is what started it all, but it all started down the road in Ledyard. I get back in the car and make my way back to Foxwoods for the last time...
...museum, though, I begin to question myself and the Mashantucket Pequots. The museum seems to make even less sense in the context of its surroundings than the nearby casino and hotel complex. Designed by New York's Paul Jacob Parkers, who reveals himself here to be the poor man's Frank Gehry, the building makes little attempt externally to interact with its environment, strange given the emphasis one would expect to be placed on such a dialogue here on the rez. Things get both better and worse on the museum's inside. A spiral ramp draws the visitor artfully from...