A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Report From Las Vegas

Report From Las Vegas

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John Mendelssohn
Jun 15, 2015
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Report From Las Vegas
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Most agree that there’s nowhere else on earth like Las Vegas (by which I mean The Strip, and not those glitzless parts of town in which ordinary people live), and thank God for that. There’s more vulgarity per square foot there than anywhere else in the solar system, and small armies of the ghastliest possible Americans, Americans who haven’t glimpsed t…

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