It’s less obvious what will happen to the Secret Garden or its inhabitants, which include a few dolphins as well as the cats. The Mirage-the hotel that changed Las Vegas-will vanish from the Strip around the time it turns 35 years old. But Las Vegas is the least sentimental city on Earth, and Hard Rock has already announced plans to reimagine the property, including by building a guitar-shaped hotel like the one it opened in Hollywood, Florida, in 2019. For a little while longer, the hotel will continue to be marketed as a desert oasis, and its iconic volcano will still erupt.
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In December 2021, Hard Rock International agreed to pay MGM a little over $1 billion for the right to operate the Mirage, including a three-year license to the name.
Now it’s about to reach its sad, instructive conclusion, the way so many modern fables end: with a corporate takeover. It can serve as a testament to the power of lies, including the ones we tell ourselves, or a cautionary tale about fiction’s limits, especially when fact takes the form of a fed-up tiger. Depending on when you enter and exit their story, it’s either triumphant or tragic, surprising or inevitable. They were without question the most famous German magicians performing with a large collection of apex predators. Had his invasion of Kuwait been without reprisals, he would have continued to take the Eastern part of Saudi Arabia.Siegfried & Roy photographed at their residence in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1991 (Mark Seliger / AUGUST)Īt the peak of their particular and possibly extinct brand of celebrity, Siegfried & Roy were arguably the most famous magicians since Houdini. Our response to the incidents off Planet Pluto is that we reject reprisal merely for vengeance, or for imposing ourselves on the Plutonian people.Įnglish ports soon began to be filled with them, in consequence of the general orders for making reprisals. September 11, fearing reprisals against Saudi nationals, Rihab Massoud, the deputy chief of mission at the Saudi embassy in Washington, D. The Chaka were fean, tough fighters, despite the times their hopeful depredations had resulted in measured reprisals from the more powerful leagues. We decided that we would have to impress on them the danger to them personally if word of the location of the Aucas got around and if, as a result, there were attacks on the Aucas by the Quichuas or others followed by Auca reprisal raids. The Angevin, who above all things liked to count and consolidate his gains in conflict, foresaw a long train of inconclusive aggressions and reprisals between church and state in which his arm, however powerful, could not effectively come at the ghostly armor of his antagonist.Ĭertainly from that time on, hatred spread throughout the Auca country, and a legacy of reprisal has been passed on from father to son. Thus, unchronicled amid the battles and the sieges, there broke out another war, a war of individuals, with foul murder upon the one side and brutal reprisal on the other.Ī sort of chronic warfare of aggression and reprisal, closely akin to piracy, was carried on at intervals in Acadian waters by French private armed vessels on one hand, and New England private armed vessels on the other. More than one underground subculture had discovered it was perfect for distributing information with little chance of reprisal: anarchists, kiddie-porn rings, music and video pirates. Thereafter matters degenerated into random and sporadic acts of violence followed by increasingly cruel reprisals which spread beyond Potcher to involve the eastern counties of Barfezi. Once I opened my eyes to see a great raw dick dangling two inches from my nose, like a pornographic reprisal. Guillaume, worn down by the inconveniences of excommunication, determined, since he was afraid of no one, to himself accost the man of God boldly with threats of reprisal.
The order has therefore been given to amputate without hesitation, as reprisals, every damaged limb. The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary Reprisals in the laws of war are extremely limited, as they commonly breached the rights of non-combatants, an action. Ī reprisal is a limited and deliberate violation of international law to punish another sovereign state that has already broken them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Demonstrators surged through the capital city yesterday, ignoring threats. Noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB fear ▪ Business as usual was good for many others feared reprisals from white bosses if they got too political. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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