Bugsy Siegel's Fabulous Dream

February, 1992

Bugsy Siegel's Fabulous DreamListen: A cold wind is blowing through the desert night. It is blowing from the western mountains beyond Las Vegas, blowing across the icy waters behind Hoover Dam, blowing down blind canyons, combing trees and chaparral. In this wind there is nothing of the warm, damp Pacific slopes, no verdant green, no salt off the vast sea. This wind is dry and lean and hard. It does not celebrate the human. But if you stand back from the neon and the traffic, if you find some ba...