Word: toot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...etching of the Circus Maximus in Rome, but the multicolored Styrofoam and Fiberglas-mesh structure looks more as if it had been dreamed up in a Bourbon Street bar by the design team of Dali and Disney. Grecian urns and Roman busts sit among the rooftops; gilded cherubs toot their horns; alligators double as seats; a peacock spreads a vibrant tail. The wall's up and down hurly-burly has performing areas, water sculptures, flowers and 41 fountains...
Other concerns center on the drivers' unwillingness to wait when passengers are not easily seen from the street. "I've been left twice," said Current resident Wayne A. Seaton '86. "They drove right by, gave a toot, and didn't even slop down...
...TIME by the polling firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, found that 11% of U.S. adults admit having sampled cocaine, and one in four says that "someone close to me has tried it." Cocaine in the early 1980s has become a democratic craze instead of a high-society toot. Indeed, it is like the once exclusive vacation resort that the masses discover after its founding trendies have moved on: today, just as a lot of cosmopolites on both coasts are souring on cocaine, the drug is pushing its roots wider and deeper into America's social strata. Peter Bensinger, director...
Specialized treatment regimens are proliferating. Dr. Richard Miller has run 50 people through his "cokenders" spa (one week, $900) in the countryside north of San Francisco. During the week of therapy he offers the recovering overusers a toot of cocaine to test their resolve. In Los Angeles, new Cocaine Anonymous groups draw 700 people to weekly meetings. At South Miami Hospital, a coke-treatment program (four weeks, $6,300) has been discharging more than 300 patients a year...
...glamorous headquarters. Tourists flocked to the old Colorado silver-mining town turned winter resort, lured by the 11,300-ft. Aspen Mountain, the classy lodges and chic crowds. Its glittery, fast-lane image later included pricy real estate and such open cocaine use that it acquired the nickname "Toot City." Artists, ski bums and a coterie of rich and famous, including Actor Jack Nicholson and Troubadour John Denver, settled in what Denver dubbed "the sweet Rocky Mountain paradise." Now, as the ski craze cools and recession-fueled competition among Western resorts increases, hard times have intruded on paradise...