American Experience: Las Vegas - An Unconventional History (1 of 75)
MAN: Las Vegas is the place where the steam gets let off.
It 's like a vacation.
People can come here and feel they're living a naughtier life.
Cocktails?
MAN: Las Vegas is clockless, and in that sense, it does throw your whole rhythm off.
I think that that induces a kind of spacelessness and weightlessness and a placelessness so that Las Vegas becomes a world into itself.
Yahoo!
MAN: I mean, this is after all a city in the desert, so Las Vegas suggests, of course, that the whole rest of the world is the desert and it is the oasis.
WOMAN: We don't want anything in Las Vegas that upsets the tourists and if it's a touch of reality that is not pretty, then we want to get rid of it.
You don't want to come in contact with reality when you're here for fantasy.
MAN: It's not a deeply introspective culture.
It 's not about the interior life.
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MAN ( continues ): There is no gap between the thought and the act.
It isn't like you say, "Oh, should I do this, should I do this?"
It 's like...
( imitates lightning strike ) Am I going to walk you down the aisle and give you away?
MAN ( continues ): So that kind of hesitation and contemplation is not really a part of this culture. |
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