Word: plush
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...beginning, Lacey says he got maybe one new member per month. Now he claims six a day from around the U.K. The fights have grown from occasional to nearly every month, and are held at two kinds of venues: places like York Hall, which attract serious fight fans, and plush London hotels, which attract the dinner-jacket crowd and give a portion of the proceeds to charity. To join, men - there are still only a handful of women - undergo a physical ("like something out of the army," says Wade) and pay €140, which doesn't include...
...sleazy, vulgar and like nothing I'd ever seen before," says Orzolek, 24. Onstage she flashes her underwear, twirls around like a demented cheerleader and eviscerates plush toys. Since that first frock, there has been a series of arty, zany creations, including the "shrimp dress," a gaudy taffeta and tulle ball gown that Karen O turned into shrimp salad on stage in London this year. "That's the best thing that can happen," says Joy. "It's beyond fashion...
...commanders on scene are the only ones qualified to determine if their forces are stretched too thin. The media and politicians sitting in their plush surroundings have done nothing but report the negative aspects of the situation in order to influence the general public. Wes Rowley Bonita Springs...
...like Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder, who are bending America's native hip-hop with new sounds. And so Perry - at 67 still the inspired lunatic-producer of reggae - finds himself in possession of his first Grammy (for last year's album Jamaican E.T.), and encamped at London's plush Royal Festival Hall, where his three-week stint as curator of the 11-year-old Meltdown festival kicked off on Sunday. Each year, Meltdown invites a musical luminary - Laurie Anderson, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, David Bowie - to devise a series of challenging concerts and musical collaborations. Now that...
That self is an absolute perfectionist. "Not just in golf but in everything I do," says Sorenstam, sitting in the plush lounge of her home course in Orlando, Fla. Friends and coaches talk of how when Annika was a teen, other girls would practice one hour after a round and she would put in three; or the time Annika had the flu, threw up on the course and still won. Sorenstam's strength is "her intrinsic motivation," says coach and mentor Pia Nilsson. "Her ability to look honestly at what she can improve is absolutely the best." The evidence...