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From: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: Shows/concerts in Vegas week of Fall DECUS
Message-ID: <417@sickkids.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 90 09:53:21 GMT
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In article <1990Oct6.211855.1444@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
mccurdy@ucselx.sdsu.edu (mccurdy m) writes:

> I really wanted to see Wayne Newton - though, no offense, as a joke - but it
> looks like he won't be performing the week that we're there. In fact, that
> whole week looks very sparse as far as "big names" goes. Anyone else ...?

Anyone looking for a moderately bizarre way to spend a bit of free time (and
I suspect that anyone who wants to see Wayne Newton, yet realizes that the only
way to take him seriously is as a joke, is likely to be warped in the correct
direction) would be well advised to check out the Liberace Museum.

Imagine an almost incomprehensible concentration of high kitsch and bad taste,
elevated to an art form.  Well worth a visit.  The only positive thing about
Las Vegas, in fact.  Why *does* DECUS end up in major loser cities so damned
often?  (The preceding rhetorical question is for whining purposes only; I'm
well aware of the reasons, which have been discussed ad nauseam on a number of
previous occasions.)