Came the night "my" episode was airing, from the hillsides of San Francisco and Silver Lake to my cousin's house in Martinsburg, W Va, whole families were poised by the tube "There she is" one friend yelled, and there I went. With exhibitions of this quality, Grossmont College is regaining its importance as a visual arts venue after a period of regrettable inactivity. "Americans now are only interested in the spectacular names-the Bolshoi, (Sviatoslav) Richter, (Lazar) Berman. An exhibition of seven artists who occasionally work with glass includes a hypnotic sculpture by Michael Hayden that appears to breath. These stand out against and complement Don Llewellyn's graceful and deliberately stark, U-shaped stage (an uncommon design, at once functional and aesthetically seductive, that enhances whatever is on it.

Then you'd notice-although we were never really aware of this process-that suddenly there would be no more stack of scripts coming in. Advance word on "Foley Square" a lawyer comedy produced in-house at CBS and set to follow "Mary" Wednesday nights, is grim. He found work quickly (including two weeks of a vaudeville tour with Texas Guinan. Without it, you won't absorb the cross-hatched intensity of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's moody "Portrait of Jan Burden" the sculptural structure of Antoine Watteau's "Church, Fortress and Rustic Buildings in a Landscape" the bloody horror of Jacob van der Ulft's depictions of Irish religious persecutions or the ghoulish wit of Adriaen van Ostade's "Leg Operation" performed by a barber on a hapless peasant. "An ax murderer or a lumberjack, something with an ax" Wainwright said during a recent phone interview from his New York City apartment, laughing off Gerdes' comment.

What used to be called "folk" has a new name"acoustic music" Typified by artists on the Windham Hill record label, it's purely instrumental, rich in texture, complex in design, difficult in execution. Vollmer himself plays soprano sax; there are eight members, of whom the most distinguished are trombonist Eddie Durham and vocalist Laurel Watson, whose talent deserves broader recognition. There he is later, speaking fluent English, and still later, visiting New York three months after taking power and astounding Westerners by not asking for U. S aid. He often picks color combinations that are selling like waffles in Melrose boutiques Flesh pink and black are especially hot. In working with them I found that I was a good collaborator"This involvement led to a job as a story editor at Motown, where she eventually became director of creative affairs. For information and a program schedule, call the Museum of Cultural History at (213) 825-4361.

The orchestration of these allegorical pictures is invariably impressive, the colors evermore gently harmonized and the details filled with wonderful patches like the reclining girl in "Juno Asking Aeolus to Release the Winds"They never quite come off because Boucher was as temperamentally ill-equipped to do them as he was technically gifted. Pasadena's Parkway Grill has also become known for unusual American desserts like the delectable S'mores: French chocolate sandwiched between homemade marshmallows and graham crackers, briefly scorched in the open pizza oven and served with a strawberry sauce. On that basis, the best album competition was the most respectable in years. Through interviews with many men and women, now middle-aged and older, and vintage clips and stills, the film relates the gay experience-from the '20s onward-to that of the larger American experience. 22 at the Anticlub in Los Angeles) Koenig and Kline describe themselves as Christians, and although religion is a central element in both their lives and music, their faith, like groups such as U2, is expressed subtly. Patrick Campbell, will be rehearsed and performed for those signing up for the nautical adventure.

It's happened before and it'll happen again, but it was a blow to Segal. More than 500 workers performed tasks both humble and herculean. Also on the agenda: "Sphaera" for piano and computer-generated tape, by William Albright and "Waltzes" for an unusual string quartet of violin, viola, cello and bass, by Fred Lerdahl. The loudest and most consistent critic of the parents center is Zappa, who has said the campaign "was generated by a group of bored Washington housewives" Zappa will be accompanied in Washington by daughter Moon, 17, and son Dweezil, 16, who plan to speak out as concerned teen-agers. Guido, ostensibly a man of action, does nothing when a trio of drunken soldiers burst in and rough Silia up. "Cheers" "The Cosby Show" and "Family Ties" garnered the most bids for favorite television comedy program, while "Back to the Future" and two Sylvester Stallone movies, "Rambo First Blood Part II" and "Rocky IV" captured nominations for favorite motion picture. That can drive you mad" So, mostly (except for a recent collaboration on a children's show, "Toby Tyler" opening in Seattle next month, Solly works by himself.

Throughout a program shrewdly chosen to show off her vocal strengths as well as to balance introspection and playfulness, Te Kanawa sang magnificently. Hitchcock and his wife, Alma, had one daughter, now Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell, who has three daughters and four granddaughters (a sequence of interest to geneticists and odds-makers. In addition to some electronic inequities, the distractions on this occasion included aeronautical invasions, fire and/or police siren obbligatos and-need it be mentioned-sweltering heat. Miller conjured up a series of characters from his private-eye sketch with lightning-quick changes of facial expression and body stance and an assortment of dialects before settling down again. This is the first time I dance a full-length ballet in two years I need the opportunity It is kind of strange "The management said next year I don't need next year. "I'm not trying to act like a jet-setter or show how you can spend a $1,000 a day in some city" she said. As is well known, he is already involved with Music Center Opera, as a member of our board.

"My dad never pushed me to get involved in baseball as a career" the younger Campanella explains. That's a lot harder to believe about someone in the environment-conscious Pacific Northwest. "As you walk about" he urged, Wednesday in his conference room next to the Assembly chambers, "you should try and extract from legislators a commitment to vote for the funding, whatever number of times it is required to do so, whether it be on (a veto) override or just a straight vote" Asserting that "the (Democratic) Legislature has never lacked for measures designed to enhance assistance to the arts" but that "in appropriations for the arts, right now the (Republican) governor is the ultimate decider" Brown noted that with such commitments for votes over the long legislative haul, the confederation can really participate in the process and "have your voices heard" With that power behind them, Brown added, the confederation wouldn't have to be calling the governor, the governor would be phoning the committed legislators "to see if he could stop them-with the same kind of effort Ronald Reagan made on behalf of the MX missile" Governors may not have the votes to block veto overrides, he noted with a smile, so the confederation could be in a position to threaten"1986 is a reelection year, so you can make the threat and not have to make good on it until '86" Several hours later, it was anything but an atmosphere of threat in which the confederation met with the governor. Aside from a few stadium dates that are being negotiated for the summer, they won't tour this year. DEADLINE A&M: Dale Pollock, a former Times film reporter, is leaving his post as a production executive at the Geffen Co. According to Roger Suva, managing editor of Electrum magazine and coordinator of the poetry series, the events at Bowers will encompass music and visual art as well as poetry.

What we have instead are many of architecture's current personalities and arbitrators. But Connie lives by the gospel of Hattie McDaniel: "I'd rather play a maid than be one" The Villas don't have a maid, but they could have had one. His musical interest was revived by the arrival of David Bowie, the New York Dolls and the glitter movement. If Aswad's reputation as a superb live band hasn't been exaggerated over the years, its local debut could result in the most potent reggae performance since the Wailers' "Legend" tour hit town last November Shows: The Palace, Wednesday. . We could hardly think of ourselves as aware or imaginative people without considering MTV" Clearly, Momix has not an elitist or academic bone in its composite body. "Equity didn't tell me I was doing anything wrong" Grossman said "I registered the play with them June 19.