Word: plusher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Abrams and Reeves succeed in making their show lightly cinematic, creating a plusher experience for the viewer than is usual on TV. What really makes Felicity enjoyable, though, is that despite its requisite melodrama, it is emotionally plausible and endearing. In this it is very different from its demographic stablemates Dawson's Creek and Fox's Ally McBeal, which are dishonest to their core and as a result impossibly irritating to watch. Felicity, instead, manages to be pretty good, gooey, yearning, adolescent fun. Not bad for a first...
...this aerie in the Peruvian Andes. Cuzco is worth a few nights' stay. A good choice there is the Hotel Monasterio, a newly converted Franciscan monastery. Chants echo through the interior courtyards at breakfast, and guests can stroll through the archways and choose between a monkish cell or plusher accommodations...
...stray from its dogma. It's impossible to determine how much power the orthodox rationalists have over tenure decisions. But Peterson's tenure bid, it is safe to say, was not helped by his view of politics--a view that happens to be heretical in some of Littauer's plusher offices...