Directions: Fill in the blanks in the first six paragraphs of the museum review "Where Las Vegas Stardust Rests in Peace" by Edward Rothstein. Use your own words and phrases, or scroll to the end of the post to choose from a scrambled list of the words or phrases that were removed. Another option? Read, or listen to someone read, the original article first, then fill in the blanks from memory. LAS VEGAS - We may be made of star stuff, as the astronomer Carl Sagan once said, but our imaginations contain a strong dose of "Stardust" - at least as the word appears here. The capital S, its 17-foot-tall body peppered with bulbs, is ______ like a coy lightning bolt. Its jagged strokes change thickness and meet at ______ angles, like the stylized clothes of "The Jetsons." The T's are like toon sketches of rays shooting ______ stars. And the whole word here - though not lighted up with pulsing energy as it ______ was - seems to conjure fantasy. It doesn't ______ advertise the name of a Las Vegas casino, now defunct. Its associated whiffs of sci-fi adventure and high-tech possibility - of stardust and neon - are ______ on the imaginations of several generations. The letters appear here in the outdoor "boneyard" of the Neon Museum, just past a time-rubbed Aladdin's lamp and a ______ signature of tubed glass that once heralded the Liberace Museum. A boneyard is an outdoor graveyard for discarded hardware and ______ parts; in this case it contains the ______ of an age of neon in a town that transmuted inert gases into things nearly alive. The museum began in 1996 as a modest ______ to rescue remnants of that era, later leasing city land for its own boneyard of salvaged signs. The Young Electric Sign Company, once Las Vegas's most innovative sign manufacturer, also ______ its jangle of corpses. The collection grew. Over the years the boneyard began to live up to ______ name with peeling paint, empty sockets and rusted metal, and the museum began to live up to its name with tours on request through its one and a half acres _______ about 450 elements from often kitschy signs. Public and private money was raised for what became a $4 million project (including a small park across the street). By raising another $2.5 million, the museum was _______ to restore 15 major signs to their full glory. They were mounted downtown and on Las Vegas Boulevard (including the light-spangled Silver Slipper _______ the museum). Finally, the lobby building of the 1961 La Concha Motel, which the museum helped ______ from the ax, was moved here. Its poured concrete clamshell design, revealing glass walls beneath its whorls, was restored to the ______ of its creator, Paul Revere Williams. It opened last fall as a kind of museum lobby, providing a small store, display screens surveying Las Vegas history, and a place where _____ could meet guides for a 45-minute tour, which is still the only way the artifacts can be viewed. With set hours, a visitor center and a staff, the boneyard is being resurrected in museum form. Annual ______ is expected to double from the roughly 20,000 of the past. attempt shattered outside shaped attendance donated vision spare from relics once containing just its unexpected visitors save able imprinted For answers, go to the original article. Find more Times fill-ins by visiting our Fill-In category page.