Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BERRYMAN's MOST recent book does not possess the unity necessary for comparision with a work of the magnitude of Dream Songs. At least one of the poems included in Delusions, Etc., "Scholars at the Orchid Pavilon," was begun over 20 years ago. Only its first section, the "Opus Dei," composed of the poems following the offices of the day, has the sustained internal coherence necessary to approach the consistent outlook of Dream Songs, and those eight poems are on a much more modest scale. In this final book, Berryman has created no character of the engaging importance of Henry...
...impeccable dresser, he almost always wore a fresh orchid in his lapel; when visiting desert countries, he had the flowers shipped in daily. For a London party, he flew in a troupe of belly dancers from Turkey. Married three times and twice divorced, he remained childless. He had a superior attitude about good food and wine. The perfect number for dinner, he said, was two-himself and a headwaiter. In all he did, Gulbenkian remained a flamboyant refutation of the notion that the burden of having money dims the joy of living...
Business is good, admits Owner Don Morgan, 26, himself a graduate of Wayne State -good enough to keep the Blue Orchid open 18 hours a day, seven days a week. "We draw a higher class of voyeur than the X-rated movie house," he says proudly, pointing out that his clientele includes five multimillionaires, one steel-company president, one automobile-company vice president, one prominent policeman and several professors. His female staff is equal in quality, he feels: one is a law student, one a medical student, one the daughter of a faculty member, and among the nonstudents he employs...
...general the girls work the Blue Orchid simply because it means easy money. They get to keep one-third of the fee (and tips); an attractive girl can earn as much as $100 a day, and $30 is average. Also, the job is as impersonal as nudity can be. The models do not use their names; they merely have numbers that clients can request. Business is strictly legitimate-hands off, no dates. Former prostitutes are allowed to work at the Orchid, but if they are caught soliciting they are asked to leave. A few girls think the whole idea...
Maybe I'm oldfashioned, but I'm not going to let my office become a clearinghouse for that kind of job." The models hardly need Harbison's assistance. "I saw the ad in the campus paper," says one. "When I found out that the Orchid paid four times as much as the school art department, I decided to work here. My husband came with me the first day, just to make sure everything was on the level." Adds No. 35: "I was bored with what I was doing, so I came here out of curiosity. I didn...