Word: plushly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...iniquity, it looked any other normal room at the Holiday Inn. A nice room, even: plush carpet, sofa, chandelier. But this was no average hotel room, I reminded myself; this was where three-dimensional women with intellects and personalities are instantly transformed into two-dimensional sexual objects in a flash of David Chan's camera...
...cruise past a clubhouse. Called the Sun Classic, this "golf car," as Yamaha refers to it, sells for $4,230 and comes with tinted windshield, headlights with high beams, self-canceling turn signals, brake and tail lights, adjustable seats and chrome wheels with < whitewall tires. Such options as plush carpeting and AM-FM radio can add $280 more to the sticker price...
...27th Soviet Communist Party Congress, Mikhail Gorbachev, standing behind a polished wood lectern emblazoned with a hammer and sickle, had hectored and preached with passion and zeal. Caught by a momentary fit of coughing, he inhaled deeply and scanned the thousands of faces that filled the plush red seats before him. Offhandedly, Gorbachev remarked, "I am coming to the end." Hesitantly at first, then in mounting waves, appreciative laughter swept through the cavernous Kremlin Palace of Congresses...
...Wait a minute: "In the thirties, it was in the basement of the old Vanderbob Towers Hotel. In the forties, it moved into the first floor of the Youbob Building on Fifty-second Street. In the late fifties, it settled in what was to become its final home, the plush revolving lounge on the top of the BobCo Building." What kind of place was Bob's Bob House? The narrator recalls the hospitality of his host: "My God, I drank the place dry that night, and then I had a good solid piece of American grain-fed beef...
...Maybe. But people of every age go to the movies to get out of themselves, to share the intense, expansive communal experience of being in the dark, with the huge screen the only light. That experience was easier to achieve when movie theaters were huge, gaudy palaces with plush appointments and ushers dressed like Ruritanian footmen. Alas, those theaters have been razed or, worse, sliced into half-a-dozen small auditoriums that are about as attractive as the men's rooms in Chinatown restaurants. Why should anyone over 18, or not on a date, go to a noisy, rowdy theater...