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...harvest in value. In Oklahoma, the $350 million harvest ranked just behind wheat. In Kentucky and Tennessee, each with a $200 million yield, dope growing has replaced moonshine as the favorite illicit enterprise. Harvesting of this year's crop begins in August and September, and experts predict a bumper yield. Says Bill Keester of the Oklahoma state police: "We've had a lot of rain, and we're blessed with good crops of everything. Unfortunately that means a lot of marijuana as well as wheat...
With the profusion of "I Believe in Garp" bumper stickers and sweat bands by 1980, many who had raved about America's "last Puritan" novelist were cowering amid Garpmania. The hitch was that the glowing reviews for the book had already been written Criticism of Irving's literary world--now often described as unreal and unnecessarily violent--had to wait until the publication last summer of Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire, which was panned despite hardcover sales far more brisk than its predecessor...
...Show Us Your Tits"--it is the rallying cry of the masses. The libido of the great unwashed bursting forth in all its drunken glory. It is the them of the infield. Mass-produced buttons, bumper stickers and shirts proclaim the four magic words, and hundreds carry homemade signs and drive had-painted vans which reiterate the them. From atop the vans and portable scaffolding, flushed faces call out hoarsely to all who pass below. "Show us your tits!" Most ignore the demands, but every so often a woman will clamber up onto a van and perform an awkward striptease...
...piece of tape on the latch of a door in the Watergate complex in Washington. He called the police, and thereby began the destruction of Richard Nixon's presidency. The survivors of Watergate will not be holding reunions. No one died at Watergate, of course, as the bumper stickers say-meaning, rather heavily, that Chappaquiddick was worse. But 25 people went to jail, and Nixon became the first President in Amen can history to leave the White House one step ahead of impeachment...
...extravagant punnery. From the Hog Wild! store in Boston's Faneuil Hall Market Place to three Hogography gift shops in Arkansas to the Hogs & Kisses emporium in San Francisco, retailers' shelves are packed with greeting cards, books, posters, clothes, games, stuffed toys, jewelry, office accessories (oink-wells), bumper stickers (HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR PIG TODAY?) and sundry objets d'art celebrating hogritude. Says Charlotte Iwata at Homeworks in Santa Monica, Calif.: "Cats were in for a long time. Then there was a rush for penguins and polar bears. Alligators came and went, thank God. Unicorns still have...