A DESERT TRIBUTE.(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 23-SEP-02

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When the New York-New York Hotel and Casino opened in Las Vegas, five years ago, the absence of the World Trade Center towers from the resort's ersatz skyline seemed like a reasonable omission, the kind of messing around with reality that is to be expected from a city where a volcano spews lava on schedule every evening, and where a Venetian canal, complete with singing gondoliers, can be found one flight up from a rattling casino floor. New York-New York does include a squat forty-seven-story replica of the Empire State Building; a scaled-down Chrysler Building that is significantly less shiny than the real thing, on account of its being topped with fibreglass rather than...

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