Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Were it not for the embarrassing trendiness of conflating the academic with the plebeian, I would call Suffolk Downs postmodern, since everything there is virtual. Massachusetts thoroughbreds run live races four days a week, but nobody watches them. Instead, since the majority of on-track wagering is done on races beamed in by satellite from the major tracks in New York, Florida, Louisiana and California, the regulars watch all of the races--including the ones happening 50 feet away--on television. The tracks have names which are alternately pastoral and geriatric: the Fair Grounds, Bay Meadows, Oaklawn Park, Turf Paradise...
...hoped that the casino might be starting to clear out. This would mean blackjack with a low minimum bet. But instead there's a packed house. The lowest minimum is $25 (too rich for FM's blood), and would-be players are crowding the tables, jonesing for a chance to get in the game. For the moment, I'll have to be content to watch and wait...
...some assistance. He leads me to a house phone. I speak with an operator and discover that I have not been paged. The blue-coated man asks me how things went on the phone, and I must report to him that I was not in fact paged, but instead that I possess a remarkable sense of self-importance. He looks at me dimly, and says, "Stay off the sauce, buddy. I know the drinks are free, but you'll play better...
...gradually they recreated the tribe. Three hundred and fifty years later, revenge is sweet: Foxwoods pulls rank on upstart Mohegan Sun. Entering a new era in the tribe's saga, the descendants of the last of the Pequots have resurrected the tribe once more. But Trump's question remains: instead of the continuation of a tradition, is the tribe's latest, capitalist recreation just an embarrassing parody--even an exploitation--of its own past...
...Make a really stupid comment. "Well, maybe you should use Porn-Quest instead of Pro-Quest!" Feel really stupid...