Word: plushness
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...commanders on scene are the only ones qualified to determine if their forces are stretched too thin. The media and politicians sitting in their plush surroundings have done nothing but report the negative aspects of the situation in order to influence the general public. Wes Rowley Bonita Springs...
...like Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder, who are bending America's native hip-hop with new sounds. And so Perry - at 67 still the inspired lunatic-producer of reggae - finds himself in possession of his first Grammy (for last year's album Jamaican E.T.), and encamped at London's plush Royal Festival Hall, where his three-week stint as curator of the 11-year-old Meltdown festival kicked off on Sunday. Each year, Meltdown invites a musical luminary - Laurie Anderson, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, David Bowie - to devise a series of challenging concerts and musical collaborations. Now that...
That self is an absolute perfectionist. "Not just in golf but in everything I do," says Sorenstam, sitting in the plush lounge of her home course in Orlando, Fla. Friends and coaches talk of how when Annika was a teen, other girls would practice one hour after a round and she would put in three; or the time Annika had the flu, threw up on the course and still won. Sorenstam's strength is "her intrinsic motivation," says coach and mentor Pia Nilsson. "Her ability to look honestly at what she can improve is absolutely the best." The evidence...
...truth universally acknowledged—indeed, almost a platitude—that rape and the conditions for its persistence are found within final clubs. Amidst the wood paneling, overstuffed armchairs and dead animals, under the framed letters from presidents and buried in the plush of Persian carpets, it multiplies and thrives. Everybody knows it, and some of those who choose to enter instinctively hold their breath to avoid breathing it in. But pity the fools who expose themselves every day, thinking they are immune...
...even a million dollars will get you a room at Riyadh's brassy Conference Palace Hotel. Its atrium lobby has one of the world's largest crystal chandeliers, and its plush suites are reserved exclusively for guests of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...