Word: orchid
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...pink nude silhouette pulsates through the translucent blue picture window, beckoning the camera voyeur into the Blue Orchid photographic studio. Like dozens of others that have burgeoned in cities across the land, it panders to the new permissiveness. Rent a model-in-the-raw, only $15 for 30 minutes of poses of your choice, camera provided, film and processing slightly extra. But the Blue Orchid is a little different. In the orange-carpeted room where models await customers, the bookcase is filled with such unlikely tomes as Integrated Principles of Zoology and Quantitative Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Reason: of the roster...
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...
...they helped to found more than a century ago in the dense Colombian lowlands. Pioneer settlers from a foothills town, José Arcadio Buendia and Úrsula, his wife-cousin, start with nothing but the vehemence of their blood. They soon make Macondo into a strange oasis in the orchid-filled jungle, a primitive, otherworldly place resonant with songbirds, where there is no death, no crime, no law, no judges. The only outside visitors are gypsies, who astound the residents with magnets, false teeth, telescopes, ice and a flying carpet...
...active astronauts. Said one guest, as Astronaut Rusty Schweickart walked by: "I don't know who he is, but he's one of them." Jan Armstrong, Pat Collins and Joan Aldrin formed a shortlived receiving line, Mrs. Armstrong taking the honors in a white lace dress and orchid corsage...