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...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...
...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...
...identical copy, an exact replica." GIORGIO ARMANI, Italian designer, describing a fake Armani watch he was offered in Shanghai two weeks...
...Germanic Museum could have been designed solely for the production of this play. With its full size replica of the entrance to the Freiburg Cathedral, the inner chapel, the baroque organ, as well as the advantages of an enclosed auditorium to give power and resonance to the spoken parts, the Museum is actually a better setting for the play than the traditional outdoor stage at Salzburg. Since the play, the setting, the costumes, and the organ are baroque, it is only natural that the acting should also be somewhat in the heroic vein. Any attempt at a careful realism would...