Article: BEDEVILED IN LA VEGA

He might well be a character from your own worst nightmare, and he's standing only a few feet away: a hulking extraterrestrial apparition in voluminous red satin robes and a matching plumed headdress with two menacing horns. His yellow triangular face scarcely contains a pair of swooping brows set above bulging bloodshot eyes, a grotesque simian nose, and fang-filled mouth permanently frozen in a wicked snarl. In one gloved hand he grasps a plastic bottle of designer water and an inflated cow bladder, or vejiga, and in the crux of his other arm he cradles a slumbering infant whose young parents are busy recording this surrealistic portrait on diminutive camera phones. Then the baby, now ...

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