Word: winterize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...with the advent of winter, Weinstein intensifies his skating practices. By the beginning of the season, he's at top speed...
...future holds enormous promise for Weinstein. Although the World Championships are his priority now, the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah already looms in the distance...
...turn off of I-95, onto Route 2A, southeastern Connecticut's very own boulevard of broken dreams, and then onto Mohegan Sun Boulevard, pipeline to the gaming phenomenon known as Mohegan Sun. After three tries driving up and down the strip, I finally find where I should be, the Winter Parking Lot. I leave the lot, step off the sidewalk and out onto the pavement, well in front of a white stretch limo. The driver stops beside me and shouts from his window, "Was that a smart fucking idea?" At first I can't decide whether his question is rhetorical...
...casino's Winter Entrance, adjacent, strangely, to the Winter Parking Lot, is by far the grandest of the casino's four inputs (one for each of the seasons). Escalators and mammoth staircases sweep players down onto the casino's floor. The casino, cut into a hill on the rez, the familiar name for the reservation, which, ironically, I am now technically on, aims to recreate within what has been paved over without. A canopy of faux-foliage presides over the action on the casino floor. Animatronic gray wolves greet visitors to the Wolf Den, a small performing arts venue...
...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 and low betting minimums, just what I had hoped for last night. But I find neither. The place is packed again. Betting minimums are still at $25. I feel almost glad in a way, though...