Blowsy squash blossoms are crammed into empanadas, cushiony and satisfying.
It's a dog of considerable proportions with a bratwurst centre and cushiony white brioche bun, on top of which, in gluttonous quantities, has been added caramelised onion chutney, ketchup mustard and cheese.
Its series of long, narrow rooms — cushiony, mirrored bar; airy, red-and-black main dining room; claustrophobic, low-ceilinged back room for less-fortunate diners — are filled with men with slicked back hair and strong cologne, and women with four-inch heels and twelve-inch extensions.
Despite this, a young child would be amused by FeltTales Dinosaur Days, a cushiony tabula rasa on which cutouts of felt dinosaurs and dinosaur scenery can be positioned and repositioned as the mood suits (American Museum of Natural History; $19.99).
The unusual material — ETFE, or ethylene tetra fluoro ethylene — gives the stadium a cushiony texture, as if it were an oversized, permanently moored blimp; you want to climb up and touch it.
By 1970, when she's become a "pink cushiony cloud," the Q.M. can tire Beaton with her "overworked" facial expressions and performance.
Later, Carmen Ruby Floyd, whose cushiony lips were painted dark red, and whose powerful figure was armored in a beaded bodice and sheer, wing-like sleeves, sang "Creole Love Call": whoops and trills and sighs, no words.
She was the opposite of Fiona — short, cushiony, dark-eyed, effusive.
Who better to walk this perilous tightrope than you, especially if we set up cushiony nets beneath you (unlike Burt Lancaster in "Trapeze")?
The exhibition has lots more devotional hardware, from a cushiony soft-sculpture shrine that looks to be made of gold lamé to a roomful of temple gift-shop souvenirs.
The music, by Matthew Otto, was little more than cushiony synthesizer chords with an occasional beat for emphasis — effectively a blank canvas for Mr. Welsh to scrawl onto.
