Word: philodendron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From the same family as philodendron and dieffenbachia (dumb cane), which are also poisonous...
...Zonker Harris, a spaghetti-haired specimen of the drug culture who carries on Socratic dialogues with his philodendron, gets busted for possession, discovers that the prosecutor has bugged his room, and tells the hidden microphone: "I hate grass. I just get high on life! And America...
Thus last week a pampered philodendron was placed on the road to recovery from root disease. The indoor plant, belonging to a childless couple, had been wilting, yellowing and defoliating. Worse, when its owners-they prefer the term parents-talked to it, the philodendron would not listen. They gave it fertilizer treats, bathed it with the sun lamp and, fearing insect infestation, sponged its leaves with Baby-Wipes dipped in Scotch. Finally, in despair, the philodendrophiles called Karl Robinson's Mother Nature Hospital. At last report, the plant was out of intensive care and listening again...
Striving to increase profit, supermarket managers are also stocking a growing grab bag of nongrocery items from banjos to philodendron plants, and making room in their stores for wine shops, sports-clothes boutiques and even pharmacies. But some food-chain managers fear that if the fierce price-cutting clash continues much longer, the entire industry is headed for a bumpy shake-out period of failures and mergers. Others take a less apocalyptic view, believing that the discount craze will run its course and the old merchandising cycle will start all over. Says Eugene Walsh, president of Ralphs Grocery chain...
...modern art. Not since Ingres's Bain Turc had sexual feeling been made so concrete in painting. The slow, swelling, profoundly organic rhythms of Nude on a Black Couch, 1932 (41) are a visual equivalent to Blake's praise of "the lineaments of satisfied desire"; even the philodendron, which rises behind Marie-Thérèse's sleeping body, seems to have just had an orgasm...