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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Felicity: Great Expectations | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Slow Climb | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: Harvard Loses Another Star | 2/28/1992 | See Source »

...will see more movies in plusher theaters and pay more for them -- all because of a 39- year- old Canadian, Garth Drabinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page January 25, 1988 | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

When business executives check into hotels these days, they quickly notice that the red carpet being rolled out is longer and plusher than ever before. Never has competition in the lodging industry been more fierce. As construction of new hotels has outstripped demand for rooms, average occupancy rates have dropped, from 70% in 1981 to a basement-level 65% last year. In | that tough climate, innkeepers are going all out to woo the customers who account for more than 70% of all hotel stays: business travelers. Many of the major hotel chains are giving corporate clients an office away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Executive Suite Goes | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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