Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter. All letters will be judged on the basis of neatness and originality." Manhattan Psychiatrist Edward Hornick's electronic surrogate greets the caller with "Shrink, Inc." Some of the more innovative answering-machine users are massage parlors and "rap" studios. In its recorded message the Blue Orchid Studio of Kansas City, Mo., gets right to the point. "Hi," says a seductive, girlish voice. "Would you be interested in my warm, nude body?" One New York City resident, worried by a rash of break-ins in his neighborhood, finally added the following warning to his automatic phone greeting...
What made the victory all the sweeter for Holt was that his family, adorned in orchid leis from his native Hawaii, viewed the entire proceedings. His brothers and sisters put the leis around the necks of the other Harvard players after victory was assured...
...inequity of the cosmos. He seems to see the love of men and women as a metaphysical surrogate for the absence of God and God's love. It is clearly an incommensurable task. But who could better symbolize the desperate gallantry of the venture than Liv Ullmann, the orchid of the snows? >T.E. Kalem
...Thursday, 10-11 p.m. E.D.T.). Filmed entirely on location in and around Nashville, Tenn., last week's première hour in this seven-part series promised an amiable music-cum-open-air aimlessness-Mel Tillis grinning through Neon Rose at the bar of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, 91-year-old Uncle Pete Pillington picking his banjo on his front porch, the Statler Brothers singing dauntlessly in the driving Tennessee rain. Country music fans will probably find the pop-crossover material impure, but if the appealing mood-and the lineup of top name performers-is sustained, this show...
...millionaire. His poolside telephone has four lines for calls to New York and Vancouver. Though many Palm Beach notables deal daily in stock portfolios that could make a conglomerate feel like a shoeshine parlor, it is considered proper to chat not about mergers but perhaps the difficulties of orchid raising...