Word: venetian
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...Kanye, who’s explored self-doubt since “The College Dropout.” But he’s still emotionally opaque—animatronic, even—and it’s worth remembering that while he could see out of the famous venetian-blind sunglasses, we couldn’t see in. The award-show tantrums, the paparazzi skirmishes: they suggested a Kanye incapable of mature self-expression, an impression “808s” confirms. Sure, he’s hurt, but the album’s few flashes of actual honesty...
...latest It bag to get a handle on the market is the revamped Roberta Di Camerino Bign bag (right), part of the Venetian fashion empire started in the '40s by Giuliana Coen and favored by the likes of Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Elsa Maxwell...
...Controlled by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands is yet another high-flying company that has been caught out by the global credit crunch and crashing economy. Adelson, who is credited with helping to revitalize Las Vegas with his lavish Venetian and Palazzo resorts, has become a well known figure in Asia, where in recent years he has spent billions building new casinos and hotels in the Chinese enclave of Macau. When Singapore decided several years ago to boost its economy by becoming a tourist destination, the government of the conservative little city-state took the controversial step of legalizing...
...first, Ho looked unlikely to contribute much to the family empire. The venture's first major investment, the $524 million, 216-room Crown Macau, appeared a feeble alternative to the ornate 600-room Wynn Macau, which opened in 2006, and Adelson's gargantuan 3,000-room Venetian, a re-creation of his famed Vegas resort that opened three months after the Crown Macau. Located on one of the enclave's outer islands, the Crown was too far from the city's other casinos to attract walk-in gamblers. In the month of its opening, the Crown claimed an embarrassing...
...Located on Macau's Cotai Strip, the resort presents a whole new challenge for Ho. He'll have to compete head to head for mass-market gamblers with Adelson's Venetian, situated right across the street. Adelson, too, is bringing even more options to Cotai, including a Four Seasons hotel, which opened in late August. "In the beginning, [City of Dreams] may have a tough time," says Gabriel Chan, a gaming analyst at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong. Ho, though, says he isn't worried. "Unlike some of our competitors who have cookie-cutter projects from the U.S., my vision...