Word: plushly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PACK of hostile, young Negroes "square off" against members of a belligerent white street gang in a plush conference room in William James Hall. And the weapons used in the encounter aren't broken bottles and brass knuckles but racial prejudices and fears...
This is Joyce at his worst, in his plush, provincial "poetic" vein, which even the captain of the Joyce industry, Dr. Ellmann himself, delicately refers to as a "rather anemic style." And Giacomo gets no better...
...bible, Weese used a book printed in 1899 that told the whole history of the building, right down to the names of the plumbers. He was able to reproduce exactly the original straight-backed chairs with their wrought-iron sides and champagne-colored plush, found one of the two manufacturers in the world who still make the old carbon-filament bulbs that gave the theater its soft, golden glow. He came across a piece of the original carpet, had it copied to the last detail. Rummaging through the basement, he found crates containing six stained-glass windows thought to have...
...committee then sent police to arrest Smith at the plush downtown Hilton Inn where he was addressing Louisiana's first integrated Bar Association meeting. He was marched out of the hall before the eyes of the country's most eminent civil rights lawyers, and sent to jail, charged with violating the state's Communist Control...
...plush conference room at the International Motel at J.F.K. Airport last March, and again in a second floor White House meeting room in late June, high ranking members of the Johnson Administration debated some of their "moderate" student critics...