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...downtown Nashville, the thermometer climbs toward 100 degrees as the swooning crowd swells to more than 40,000, all straining to catch a glimpse--maybe a word, even an autograph!--of one of the celebrities scheduled to appear. A country-music concert at the fabled Ryman Auditorium? Hardly. They are far too cool in Nashville to get excited about mere music legends. No, this is the opening of a restaurant...
...dingbat with the price tag dangling off her hat, but if there's one thing EMMYLOU HARRIS excels at, it's surprise. And, at the same time, consistency. And a restlessness under the conventional constraints of country music. On Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers at the Ryman (Reprise), her considerable gifts are in full flourish. She can sing a Bill Monroe classic with reverence and put over Steve Earle's nail-spitting Guitar Town with untroubled conviction. She is astute and audacious enough to follow up Stephen Foster's Hard Times with Bruce Springsteen's spooky and mournful Mansion...
...that their prices will falter -- though that happened to Italy's Sandro Chia when Saatchi dumped him -- as that new traders can move in and, by buying blocks from Saatchi, bypass the artists' dealers and force prices up out of all proportion to those of their new work. Robert Ryman, one of whose chaste minimalist paintings made $1.8 million at auction recently (gallery prices: from $50,000 to $300,000), now thinks it "unfortunate" that he ever let Saatchi have twelve of his prime works...
...stop it being a neat little place to live and die in though." If you ask for a Teflon cake pan at East West Hardware, you are still told that is the sort of thing you are more likely to find in Baxter, 30 miles away, according to Marilyn Ryman, now living in Los Angeles. Her description of her homecomings: "Like seeing an old movie you've seen ten times already...
...John Ryman, British Labor M.P., explaining his plans to pass up a debate in the Parliament and watch a football game: "Football is more important than politics, and footballers are more amusing than politicians...