Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eight years after the heart-bypass operation that saved his life, Floyd Stokes was in deep trouble again. His angina had returned with a vengeance. He was gulping nitroglycerine tablets and was virtually incapacitated, unable to do simple chores on his Seminole, Texas, ranch. Too far gone for another bypass, he had a choice, as he puts it, of "just waiting for death or trying to do something about...
...about Air Force One and the fleet of helicopters that served him. He had telephones installed all through the White House: on table legs, behind drapes, in secret desk drawers. He had a phone put on a l00-yd. cord so he could take calls while walking on his ranch. There were three buttons on the table near where he sat The labels read, FRESCA, ROOT BEER and COFFEE. They were linked to the White House mess for instant response...
...maybe a class-based aesthetic revulsion against hunting preceded Vietnam. Just after the election in 1960, Lyndon Johnson brought John Kennedy down to the L.B.J. ranch in Texas and, much to Kennedy's distaste, forced him to go out shooting deer. Urbanity recoiled at bloody, redneck crudeness. That's how the moment was interpreted at the time. Hunters belonged to the oaf class, Elmer Fudds who were dumb enough to be flimflammed by Bugs and Daffy: "Duck season! Wabbit season...
...what compromises he'll need to make to be an effective leader." Stodghill, who came to TIME last year from Business Week and has written cover stories on the Promise Keepers and sex education, reports that Ventura is nonplussed about his first major transition, moving from his suburban Minneapolis ranch to the confines of the Governor's mansion. "He says he's looking forward to all the free food...
...some ghostly creep with a blue face and wild white hair has come between a clan v.p. and a cute blond. The PuNK pOsSe group is hanging out on South Park Avenue; the No Limit guys are at Cartman's House. A naked Def Squad girl cruises Avatar Ranch. An anonymous admirer makes flowers bloom at the feet of Pink Glove in Wendy's Backyard. Oh, and the Mona Lisa head in the blinking, multicolored Apple baseball cap who's floating from room to room taking this all in? That would...