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...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...
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...
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...