Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most black-thumbed city slicker could hardly fail to grow a bumper harvest of marijuana. The hal lucinogenic weed - which grows wild throughout America in every kind of soil - requires no plowing, fertilizing, harrowing, mulching, weeding, spraying or watering. To raise a crop of dreams, all the would-be "grass" farmer need do is scatter seed some time in the spring, then go off to a love-in for 60 to 80 days. When the female Cannabis sativa bears its resinous flowers, the farmer simply plucks the plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven...
...John H. ("Ian") Fralich, 18, a cape-draped hippie guru in Washington, B.C., leased a wooded, 35-acre farm in Virginia's rolling hunt country and seeded one acre in marijuana-enough plants to produce a $100,000 harvest at current market prices. He hoped to turn his grass farm into a psychedelic community along the lines of Timothy Leary's dream-dome in Millbrook, N.Y. But the plan went to pot last month when the "narcs" (federal narcotics agents) raided the farm and mowed the grass. "Like wow!" protested one resident hippie...
...case, the narcs disclosed, Fralich's crop would never have made it to market. He had planted his grass too late in the season: the first frosts would have killed it before it could have been harvested...
Meanwhile, Elia Kazan remembered her "originality" and cast her as Natalie Wood's nasty girl friend in her first film, Splendor in the Grass. Then came "my most favorite play, my favorite experience," A Thousand Clowns. "Before that, I was always in a position to be fired. After every rehearsal, I knew they were discussing whether to let me go." Besides, the Clowns company (including Gene Saks, William Daniels, Jason Robards) meshed like the Budapest String Quartet. Robards was "wild, fantastic, my most favorite actor that I ever worked with." Among other things, "he taught me what it means...
...change. Mother of God, there is a set change. Director Babe cast his show expertly and then he cose a designer. As some kind of answer to Chicago's Picasso, quondam director Timothy Mayer has burst upon the world of set design with his impression of a giant grass-hopper with muscular dystrophy. It is supposed to be a cage of pipe that with the help of movable clothes racks and imaginative props can smoothly transform itself into the show's nine sets. The rearrangement of schematic sets by openly visible stagehands is a standard cliche of modern direction, especially...