Word: lushest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...induce Bergerac to switch companies, Revson offered him one of the lushest deals hi corporate history: a $1.5 million bonus just to sign, plus $325,000 a year guaranteed, plus some incentive payments geared to the growth of sales and profits. Last year Bergerac collected $794,000. The deal for a while caused the financial press to call Bergerac by the spectacularly inappropriate nickname of "Catfish," after Catfish Hunter, the pitcher whom the Yankees signed to another seven-figure contract at about the same time. Oddly, in Brussels, Bergerac presented himself as an American executive called Mike; back...
...across the Styx which we call be many names--Hudson, East, Cuyahoga, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Bay; ferrying souls from West Point or the East side or poshest Cleveland or plushest Bloomfield Hills, or from the splendors of Westwood or Nob Bill, ferried in radial punctureproof silence to those lushest immortal gardens of bones which match each heavenly city of America. Whatever the name they are all Forests of Yawns, Kingdoms of Yawns, the end of Dawns. Terminals...