Brands Quote by Hal Rothman

“Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.”

Hal Rothman

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Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the…

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Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires… If you have a…

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The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times…

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The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers…

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Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

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In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now…

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In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the…

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No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

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From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and…

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