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Sundays. Much of the city looks like a parking lot – areas of concrete which mock the
meaning of its Spanish name: The Meadows.
Part 2
Mike Davies continues
Caesars Palace, the most famous theme-park, describes itself as an opulent
Greco-Roman fantasy land and the 85 acre complex is, in appearance, a cross
between a re-creation of the Roman forum, with Greek additions, and a multi-storey
car park. It’s approached by moving walkways of white marble, overlooking
fountains and palm trees. Throughout, there are enormous reproductions of classical
statues – especially of Julius Caesar.
The actual gambling goes on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Roulette, baccarat,
craps, pontoon and poker are all played for stakes that can sometimes exceed
$ 100,000, under the practiced gaze of dealers, bankers and security men. There are
also a variety of different machines. ‘We pick our machines each morning and we
stay on ‘em,’ one retired Alabaman told me. ‘I figure, by the end of the day, it owes
me.’ His wife is doing better than him. She feeds in handfuls of dollar tokens and
with surprising regularity the machine is sick over her, spewing out as much as $20 a
time. A small tub is already three-quarters full of her winnings.
‘I just love Caesars,’ she confesses, needlessly. ‘We come here three or four times a
year.’ It turns out that they once won $600 but their goal remains the Big One.
Two years previously a housewife from Detroit won spectacularly. There had
been no big winners for some time and the jackpot stood at $2 million when she
pulled the lever. The money literally engulfed her, but she didn’t go crazy. She
bought a mink coat, had champagne for breakfast and had her hair done at the casino
salon. Then she went home to Michigan.
These days there’s even a zone for the elderly, on the banks of the Colorado
River. Here, senior citizens, with their wealth of savings and a reckless urge to ‘do it
just one more time’ park their caravans and move inside to ‘work machines’. So far
there’s no children’s version planned – but it does ever happen it’ll be in Vegas and
nowhere else. You can bet your bottom dollar.
PART 3. BRINGING UP CHILDREN
1. Write down five characteristics of ideal parents. Think about factors such as age,
personality and behaviour. Use the Present Simple and words like never and always.
Example: They never lose their temper.
In groups, discuss what you wrote and agree on five characteristics.
2. Read and discuss.
Does Nanny know best?
It is very difficult for a working couple to spend as much time as they should

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