The word "casino" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a public building, typically a large one, in which people play gambling games such as roulette, blackjack, and slot machines. For example, "The Bellagio is one of Las Vegas's most famous casinos."
Levin seems to be saying that this means there's a conflict of interest between the casino and the bettor, and that it's illegitimate for the casino to take the bet.
Regardless, though, any individual bettor knows that if he wins, the casino loses, and vice versa.
That is, he knows the casino is on the other side of the trade.
The way he deals with the inevitable rumours about his sexuality ("Who does it hurt if someone thinks I'm gay"?) is wonderfully beguiling, and that's before we've even started on his humanitarian work in Darfur and Haiti, not to mention his friendship with President Obama, recently in the news following Clooney's bust-up with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn.
Brook Leisure, the national casino chain which is also based in Barnsley, said that its record should reassure anyone with worries.
This "casino" defied any evocation of poker machines, blackjack or roulette.
In 1912 when Walter Griffin and his wife, Marion Mahony Griffin, won the international competition to design the capital of newly federated Australia, their plan included a casino where the monument to this country's 102,000 war dead now stands instead.
Instead, set at the foot of Mount Ainslie (an elevation named after fake Scottish war hero, James Ainslie, that anchors the northern end of the land axis on the Griffins' plan of beautiful geometry and orbit) the casino was to feature a leisure park, al fresco cafes, a theatre and beer gardens.
Sheldon Adelson, the multibillionaire casino magnate and key Republican party donor, spent four combative days in a Las Vegas court this week defending his gambling empire from accusations of bribery and ties to organised crime.
The judge said it had been her habit to sign cheques to the casino for such sums, but the cheques signed that evening were dishonoured.
The cost of the piece and of value of the residency are not being discussed, but there is evidence of more than a passing commitment to art in the approach of the Thomases to the casino, which they opened 18 months ago in the heart of the West End.
