Word: plushly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crop of helpers are only now, early in the afternoon, discovering that major decisions are being made over telephones on the plush 11th floor of the building. There, the six co-chairmen, old peace movement leaders like Stewart Mechem of the American Friends Service Committee, and their aides, have offices...
...million, the building encompasses 8,000,000 cubic feet spread over nine floors. It houses 15 gigantic rehearsal rooms, three organ studios, 84 practice rooms, 30 private studios, two recital halls (including Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center's acoustically superb home for chamber music) and limitless vistas of plush, carpeted corridors and lobbies. There is also the thousand-seat Juilliard Theater. Its pop-up ceiling can be raised or lowered (up for big orchestras, down for small ensembles). Its pit stage is bigger than the New York State Theater's across the street...
From Astor the demonstrators turned east on Lake Shore Drive, still breaking windows in the plush apartment buildings, small shops, and high-rise commercial buildings. Police emerged from an alley and fired several rounds of birdshot. One girl was shot in the leg by a pistol...
...Astronaut James McDivitt, it all started with a big night at Paris' plush Lido, where he got the VIP treatment from the club's showgirls. The next morning McDivitt hustled out to the Air Show, where he and fellow Apollo 9 Crewmen David Scott and Russell Schweiclcart showed Cosmonauts Vladimir Shakalov and Alexei Yeliseyev around the American exhibit. The proceedings started somewhat stiffly; then a bottle of bonded bourbon was broken out and things began to loosen up. By the time the revelers reached the Russian exhibit with its plentiful stock of vodka, they were saluting everything from...
...film's melancholy message. Thirty-six hours later, Luis and Junior are brought ashore, sunstruck and dehydrated. On their hospital cots, the "orphans" are indeed hailed as heroes and plied with gifts. The trouble is, they would trade all the bikes and toys, all the chances for plush adoption, for life with Popi. As officials tumble to the truth and scandal hovers overhead, a HEW functionary asks, "How can we deprive the world of a happy ending to this fairy tale?" To the film's credit, it chooses deprivation...