The Nation, March 1st, 1999
Las Vegas, Nevada is populated by numerous hotels and casinos, as well an a new influx of museums. The art museums of Las Vegas have become big tourist attractions in a city riddles with bright lights and unartistic values.
From various of the Italianate terraces of the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, looking over an artificial lake, girdled by balustrades no less Italianate and meant to be emblematic of Como, one may see a half-scale simulacrum of the Eiffel Tower rapidly rising across the Strip. The tower is to be one element in a complex of simulative monuments and buildings, to be called "Pa...
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