Word: plushness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there any immaculate sorority houses with teddy bear wallpaper and plush pink carpets. And there are very few generic college dorms, with long communal hallway, box-like cinderblock bedrooms and bathrooms shared by the entire floor...
When I entered the Brookline office of psychotherapist Shirley R. Aleo, I found not eerie skulls or flapping bats but instead plush creme carpeting, framed paintings of pottery and flowers, and cushy couches that seemed to jump from the pages of Better Homes and Gardens. There were decorative shells on the oak coffee table, and Aleo herself wore a light pink skirt suit and heels. Not exactly the setting of "Scooby...
This conspiracy is so far-reaching that even the ballplayers are targets. They have warm-up rooms, video rooms, press rooms, locker rooms, training rooms, bed rooms. The clubhouses and training rooms are huge and plush, and the bullpens are wired for cable TV. All this extravagance can only hurt the quality of the game. What ballplayer will want to leave the warm waters of the clubhouse jacuzzi for the burning August...
...other five sitting in postures of frozen relaxation on the big plum-colored sofas. Madame presides in her lilac dress, like a weary priestess at a rite. The self-conscious geometry of the poses, dominated by the black angular legs of the girl in the foreground, reinforces the plush silence...
AMERICAN AIRLINES is proudly touting its plush new coast-to-coast business- class service -- complete with extra-wide seats, free movies, restaurant- quality food and drinks on the house. But watch out when you get there. The supercarrier has been getting hammered in the busy California corridor by scrappy (and consistently profitable) Southwest Airlines. Now American is mulling plans to mimic some of Southwest's cattle-car tactics in order to match its low fares: open seating, no meals, no baggage transfers. Says an American executive: "Value isn't quality; it's getting what...