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There is a recurring image in popular culture--perhaps from cartoons, or maybe sitcoms--of a mother dragging her son to an opera to introduce him to "culture." Invariably, the small boy (or sometimes brutish Neanderthal husband) fidgets in an oversized seat of plush velvet as metal-horned, breast-plated Wagnerian heroines screech unbearably in German. For the boy, the opera is long, boring and utterly meaningless...
...hands of federal caretakers -- hundreds of office buildings and luxurious high-rises built by starry-eyed developers whose failures wiped out their S&L lenders. Just when the feds don't need it, a new small-is-good trend may make unloading those glass- sheathed monsters even harder. "Plush offices are out," insists Dallas broker Wayne Swearingen. "It's not in vogue to show how rich you are." Or were...
...example, I would completely renovate Memorial Hall. On the exterior, I envision neon signs everywhere. Nothing jazzes up a place like neon. On the interior, I see plush red carpeting, subdued overhead lighting, and lots and lots of mirrors. None of that cheap velour stuff like you might see elsewhere...
...hard enough to make a successful career in one field these days, but Scott Turow seems to have defied the odds. When not in his plush office in a major Chicago law firm, he works at home on his MacIntosh computer, writing bestselling books. His first novel, Presumed Innocent, was so popular on paper that its story was transferred to celluloid, and became one of this month's top grossing feature films...
...very end of the book is a profound disappointment; Turow creates a most unlikely event that provides the most optimistic future outcome for all parties. The abrupt, trite ending seems to suggest that Turow got tired of writing and yearned for the comfort of his plush law office, and simply wanted to tack on a quick ending...