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Article: HOLIDAY GAMBLES CELEBRATING CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION.(Travel)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 21, 1992
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Byline: Millie Ball New Orleans Times-Picayune
Whoever proclaimed conspicuous consumption dead in the 1990s forgot to tell the 22 million or so tourists who flocked to Las Vegas last year and the throngs who keep coming to plunk quarters into slots with dreams of hearing a crash of clunking coins, the hordes who shout numbers with each toss of the dice.
They forgot to tell superstar illusionists Siegfried and Roy, whose sellout spectacle of a show includes a disappearing elephant and 10 white tigers, all at the Mirage Hotel, where a "volcano" out front "erupts" every 15 minutes.
They forgot to tell the developers of The Forum, a new shopping ...