Word: pothead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles Times yanked a 1972 Trudeau strip about a diplomatic visit by Nixon and Kissinger to a distant and alien land: Watts. A number of papers dropped a recent strip in which Trudeau called President Ford's son Jack a "pothead." Trudeau's most inspired excess was the Nixon-era strip in which Radical Disk Jockey Mark Slackmeyer ends a surprisingly fair "Watergate Profile" of John Mitchell with the remark that "everything known to date could lead one to conclude that he's guilty. That's guilty, guilty, guilty!" Trudeau later explained that he was only...
...body of Radical Children is a series of four archetypes, "exemplary stories, stories about parents and children, which describe the transactions that went on between us." The four sketches are entitled. "The Drop-Out." "The Pothead," "The Sexual Revolutionist," and "The Communard." She refers to her characters as "the young man" or "the girl's father." Each sketch describes the main character's upbringing, his growing disaffection with society, and his parents' bewilderment...
...identify with the characters. The characters in Radical Children never attain the depth necessary for such identification, for the prefatory letter clearly distinguishes between the reader and the read--and anyhow who is willing to identify with a character named "the girl" who has been labelled "The Pothead...
...young" act as they do, she never quite rids herself of the sense that dropping out is somehow reprehensible. She never reconciles herself to the notion that perhaps alternative lifestyles offer something worthwhile. Each of her characters ends in failure--the drop-out goes off to California, the pothead moves to an apartment with only dope as her objective, the sexual revolutionist will never acheive a normal heterosexual relationship, the communard leaves his commune in disgust at the problems he finds within it to apply to law school as a final rejection of interpersonal relationships. Decter seems to give...
...second girl is Bobbi Michele, a paranoid pothead whom Barney picks up while munching peanuts on a bench in Central Park. He lends her the cash to hire an accompanist for an audition on Broadway. When she shows up at Mom's apartment the next day to repay the money, all of Barney's fantasies of extramarital fulfillment vanish in a haze of marijuana smoke...