Word: plush
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Given the somewhat inexplicable popularity of Lamont’s concentration-killing reading rooms among undergraduates, I fear that the College is going to call in the same crew to cover Hilles with bicolored wood-paneling, floor lamps, and giant, plush chairs, clear out all the books and create a new “reading” room in the Quad Library. Not only would this be inefficient in terms of space (where the library is eliminating essentially all of its holdings and consolidating to a single floor) but would be practically sacrilege to Hilles’ amazing architectural pedigree...
...heart-stopping $625 a night. They do, however, come with high-faluting technology (including touch-pad controls and 50-in. plasma screens) and a butler service. Dining facilities comprise 14 restaurants - four are open now, with 10 others due to open in the coming year - and a number of plush bars and lounges. A spa and fitness center will also open by the end of 2005. One question remains: Should you arrive by yacht, helicopter or in one of the hotel's fleet of Rolls-Royce Phantoms? tel: (971) 2 690 9000; www.emiratespalace.com
...heart-stopping $625 a night. They do, however, come with high-faluting technology (including touch-pad controls and 50-in. plasma screens) and a butler service. Dining facilities comprise 14 restaurants?four are open now, with 10 others due to open in the coming year?and a number of plush bars and lounges. A spa and fitness center will also open by the end of 2005. One question remains: Should you arrive by yacht, helicopter or in one of the hotel's fleet of Rolls-Royce Phantoms...
...vast sea of flannel poured into the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The woodsman’s beards and thick-rimmed glasses afloat in the swirling maelstrom of intentional hipness bobbed up and down in eager anticipation for the night’s event, torn jeans resting in the plush cushions of the museum’s auditorium. It was a strange atmosphere, as if this back-country-via-Inman-Square audience had been lured in and trapped in the MFA’s relatively sterile all-purpose theatre, and only when the night’s attraction emerged...
...established by Statesman-Orator Daniel Webster to disseminate culture to outlying states and distract them from rebellion, was off and droning. Last week nearly 800 speakers, would-be speakers, booking agents, college program directors and even a few plain old listeners assembled for the I.P.A. gathering at Washington's plush Mayflower Hotel. The 40 or so established rhetoricians spoke mainly for the fun of it, and perhaps to pick up an extra engagement or two. But the stakes were higher for the competing amateurs, who were hoping to break into the $2 billion-a-year lecture circuit. "This...