Word: swamis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tinker has thought a lot about programming," notes Paul Klein, the curmudgeonly sage who was an NBC vice president before joining the Playboy Cable Network. "He's very good at that. He should be doing it at NBC. Instead he delegates it to a swami like Brandon Tartikoff [president of NBC Entertainment]." So why was Tinker hired? Says Klein: "His boss at RCA, Thornton Bradshaw, said Tinker has 'bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there...
...Oliver Hardy-that burn, that long look into the lens." Surely Jonathan Winters was the inspiration for such Carson characters as the garrulous Aunt Blabby, the right-wing dimwit Floyd R. Turbo, even the huckstering greaseball Art Fern. Carnac the Magnificent is Steve Allen's Answer Man in swami's drag, and the Mighty Carson Art Players are Fred Allen's Mighty Allen Art Players with unreliable props. Carson's borrowings are leavened with respect and an originality that will run a thematic risk-"take left turns," as McCormick says-without becoming reckless...
Ashram members have said that local membership in their group has tripled in the past six months since their spiritual leader Swami Chetanananda moved here from Indiana. A small group of sect members has lived in Cambridge for eight years in a building at 11 Linnaean St. which the Ashram still owns along with the 6 Linnaean St. structure and another building on Wendall St. in Cambridge...
...palace is set on a 2,000-acre spread that includes a working farm and is called New Vrindaban, after the town in India where the incarnate Krishna lived five millenniums ago. Life among the grazing cows has not always been peaceful. After a shooting incident in 1973, the swami's flock collected dozens of firearms for self-defense, a practice that spread to West Coast Krishna communities. When a visitor died of hepatitis in 1976, West Virginia authorities quarantined the place, citing poor sanitation...
...help draw friendly visitors, the leader of New Vrindaban, Swami Bhaktipada, plans to add a vegetarian restaurant and museum next year, and a ten-acre formal garden in 1982. Eventually, there are supposed to be seven temples. But Sergeant Thomas Westfall of the county sheriffs department doubts it will ever be, so to speak, a tourists' mecca. "There's just no way that tour groups are going to include that place out there. The roads are terrible...