Then night fell, and the music grew bigger, cleaner, and more wised-up.
It's a lot more expensive than Hubert's was -- $25 a head -- but also a lot bigger, cleaner and more professional.
Customers prefer Guatemalan vegetables because "they are bigger, cleaner and last longer" than local produce, says market seller Pedro Antonio Morales as he sprinkles the broccoli, cabbage, cucumber and tomatoes with water to combat the afternoon heat.
With new halls that are bigger, cleaner, more luxurious and friendlier than ever, the pachinko industry is trying to reinvent itself by appealing to new customers, mainly younger Japanese who grew up playing video and computer games, and by cleaning up its image, much as casino operators made Las Vegas more family friendly by driving out the mob.
Fonts are a big focus of the Web2.0 era they are now bigger, cleaner and smoother, especially when it comes to logos.
It looked like Philip Stark's hotel in Hong Kong, except the suites there are bigger, cleaner, and more stylish, with individual touches, like a beaded rocking chair from Africa, and the Stark boutique hotel has free breakfast, free snacks downstairs all day, and cocktails and cake in the afternoon.
A nephew who came to visit from Abu Dhabi offered to help open a bigger, cleaner place.
"Universities and colleges have been the big vacuum cleaner of people's money," says Peter Karoff, president of the Philanthropic Initiative, a Boston consulting firm.
"Think of yourself as a big vacuum cleaner.
"I was about to go get a bucket and mop or a big vacuum cleaner and do it myself".
