Word: replica
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...economic experiment worthy of study at Harvard Business School, sex has proved to be far more profitable than wholesome fun. The MGM Grand tore down its amusement park and now houses two nightclubs (a third is opening soon) and a replica of Paris' Crazy Horse, La Femme, in which the dancers' costumes consist of a stringless G-string, one of many great new technologies to come from Las Vegas. At the Mandalay Bay, the House of Blues' new lounge has a Friday party for swingers. The hotel has a pool called the Moorea Beach Club where European-style bathing...
...Strip's only 18-hole golf course. In an experiment worthy of a Harvard Business School case study, sex has proved to be far more profitable than wholesome fun. The MGM Grand tore down its amusement park and now has two nightclubs (a third is opening soon) and a replica of Paris' Crazy Horse, La Femme, in which the dancers' costumes consist of a stringless G-string, one of many great new technologies to come from Las Vegas. Zumanity, the newest Cirque du Soleil show at New York-New York Hotel & Casino, is a near-naked gymnastics event in which...
...Sands, averages more than 30,000 visitors a day at the $240 million Sands Macao, which uses the Portuguese spelling. But the Sands, with its golden façade and shimmering neon-purple fountain, will have some sibling rivalry in 2006 when its parent company finishes an $800 million replica of the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, complete with imitation canals and singing gondoliers. Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson is so gung ho about Macau that he is enlisting partners in a $10 billion project to duplicate the Vegas Strip on a sliver of reclaimed land between two of the territory...
...Start on the third floor of the National Gallery of Victoria's Ian Potter Centre, where 46 artists can be witnessed in relatively traditional white-walled spaces (though this being Federation Square, there are no right angles). Here Adelaide sculptor Andrew Best's huge-scale replica of the '80s video game Donkey Kong serves as a useful guide. As with that game, your eye will be pulled along vertiginous corridors until a visual "hook" pulls you into the next space. Then descend into the dark depths of acmi, where the other artists dwell. Here Marcus Lyall's video Slow Service...
...Though it was bitterly cold, with crusts of snow packed into the stone, she wore threadbare sneakers from which her little toes stuck out, and she was smoking….I pursued her through the museum. It was, as museums go, rather intimate, built around a skylight-roofed replica of a sixteenth-century Italian courtyard...