Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of hours their favorite kept up when he was governor of California. The Republican's campaign headquarters are spacious, and, for the most part, empty. No more envelopes left to stuff, no more door-to-door canvassing and lit dropping--and so the volunteers stay home. One pot of coffee adequately hypes those who appear each morning and leave in time for dinner. It is the campaign as business: not the corporation's most lucrative or difficult deal, but every deal counts. Now going through the motions, Reagan's New Hampshire effort has slipped into the politics of everydayness...
...collection of articles and cartoons reveals the author as social commentator and trend observer, ogling the pathetic goons and trendies who inhabit America. The centerpiece of the collection is an article that appeared in Esquire last year called "Entr'actes and Canapes," a series of short takes and pot shots about or at assorted trends, events and people of the seventies. Wolfe snipes at everything and everyone: the digital calculator, designer jeans, Roots, Jonestown, Woody Allen and the fall of South Vietnam...
...ancient cook lived with the fraternity. But as one middle-aged alumnus mournfully reports, "We came back one day to say 'hello' to Chef, to give him a hug as we always did because we loved him so much, and discovered that he had died." Aside from his pot roast, the old man was always a favorite because "there was inevitably some form of socializing going on in the cook's quarters when he went out Saturday nights...
...potgrowers are fighting back. Some try to hide their sinsemilla stalks among tall sunflowers. One imaginative cultivator hung red Christmas-tree balls on his pot plants, trying to make them look like tomato plants from the air. The ruse did not work, because any cultivated ground in the middle of a forest attracts the suspicions of drug-enforcement officials. A few growers have even taken shots at the agents' low-flying planes, causing one casualty: a sheriff was wounded in the back while circling a marijuana patch in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles...
Some growers are booby-trapping their patches, and not just to keep out the police. The pot farmers must also fight off poachers, many of them local teenagers. Fields have been found equipped with electrical alarm systems, guard dogs, shotgun traps and even punji sticks, the sharpened stakes used by the Viet Cong to pierce the feet of patrolling American and South Vietnamese soldiers. Mendocino County, located north of San Francisco, has had several assaults, shootings and even one killing related to pot thefts. Warns Sonoma County District Attorney Gene Tunney, son of the late heavyweight boxing champion...