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Looking for a travel bargain this summer? Like the heat? Follow the trail of the Rat Pack to Palm Springs, Calif. Its posh spas, golf courses, restaurants and casinos are much roomier in the off-season. And starting in June, rates at resorts like the plush Miramonte fall from as much as $350 a night in peak season to just $89 a night. There is a catch: average temperatures hover at 105[degrees] and can go as high as 122[degrees] midday. But locals swear the golf courses are still playable in the morning. Families can spend the heat...
...show today; still the general public seems to think that comics are only for semiliterate geeks or deviants--kids who haven't grown up yet. But comics fans pray the success of Spider-Man will not be a fad and people will become more interested in buying comics than plush toys and video games. Comics educate as they entertain. JOHN HEFNER Cabin John...
Pellegrino's daughter Marianna provided a tour of the resort's amenities, at once comfortably modern and appropriate to the surroundings. Intimate indoor and scenic outdoor dining areas and a plush lounge with a fireplace were carved from what used to be the village horse stalls. Nearby, a large swimming pool overlooks a pasture dotted with sheep. The guest apartments, converted from peasant barracks, feature exposed bricks and crossbeams, private terraces, antique brass beds and modern kitchens. Individual rooms range from $59 to $86 a night, while a six-person apartment costs $1,076 to $1,921 a week, depending...
...give it two very different executions. On Greg a floppy-eared puppet lands on a kids' show whose furry cast members throw hissy fits and pop Percocets off-camera just like flesh-and-blood divas. Eugene Levy and Seth Green make fine foils, but it's their plush pals who will have you in, er, stitches. The show defies good taste and gets away with it, as when Greg falls under the sway of an Al Sharpton-like puppet-rights agitator. ("This is going to end with puppets rioting in the streets," Levy frets. "This is the Fozzie Bear verdict...
...amateur Big Brothers, surreptitiously videotaping employees, friends and total strangers without regard for privacy or propriety. Shopowners retailing tiny spy cameras (which cost between $30 and $400) say sales jumped tenfold after the Chu Mei-feng scandal. One of the hottest toys last Christmas was a Winnie the Pooh plush doll with cameras in its eye sockets...