Word: plushly
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Baltimore and Boston have the same number of people in their metropolitan areas, but the Red Sox are the only baseball team in New England and draw fans from a five-state area. Crabtown has Philadelphia and plush new Veterans' Stadium to the north, and Washington, D. C. to the south. The Senators may have moved to Texas, but their ex-fans have been too busy burning Bob Short in effigy and waiting for Congress to do something to cast their toward the Chesapeake...
Frank Zappa sits in plush-carpeted room 508 of the Lenox Hotel, facing the wall, chatting on the telephone. He is surrounded by packed suitcases, cassette tapes, several half-finished packages of imported candy, and an espresso machine...
...peninsula on a plateau bounded by Ankara, the Turkish capital, Kayseri, the one-time capital of Cappadocia, and Konya, home of the thirteenth century mystic Mevlani and his whirling dervishes. I came to Cappadocia by bus. The Turks probably have the best buses in the world--cheap, abundant, luxurious (plush seats, stewards, T.V., etc.). And fast, Perhaps too fast--Turkey has the highest per-vehicle accident rate in the world...
...Japan conjures up visions of superfast trains and a superefficient railroad system. To a degree, the image is justified. The futuristic Shinkansen, or "bullet" trains, whisk passengers as far as 735 miles from Tokyo to Fukuoka City in the southernmost main island of Kyushu in six hours flat amid plush comfort. That trip costs only $31.15 for a one-way economy-class ticket with a $20.70 surcharge for first-class...
Today, Texas Monthly has a staff of 50, plush offices on the 16th floor of an Austin bank building, and a $700,000 editorial budget-17.5% of the magazine's total expected revenues, v. an average of less than 11% at leading U.S. monthlies. Though staff members struck last summer after a Levy memo urged caution in writing about advertisers, the Texas kids are generally happy to be there. Says Senior Editor Richard West: "What could be better than writing about the land where you grew...