Word: walden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every political superstar from Henry Kissinger to Jerry Brown to Elizabeth Taylor regularly and acutely enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, as well as a sizable cult following. A year ago, Trudeau gave his strip a sabbatical and set to work bringing the gang from Walden Commune to Broadway. It turns out to have been a big mistake...
...when the strip had hit its stride, it had pretty much vacated Walden for more pertinent venues: Cambodia, California, Washington. The show, however, mostly stays home to tackle other earth-moving topics. Will Mike Doonesbury (Ralph Bruneau), who is presented onstage as a whiny, pigeon-toed virgin reminiscent of Walter Denton on the old Our Miss Brooks TV series, throw away his prepared speech and just propose to the earnest JJ. (Kate Burton)? Will B.D. (Keith Szarabajka), the beyond-macho quarterback, survive being traded from the Dallas Cowboys to Seattle? Will California Hippie Zonker Harris (Albert Macklin) keep his crazed...
...heard of the Vidalia sweet onion, one will. In the past few years, knowledge of its succulence has table-hopped through gourmet circles all over the land. The Vidalia (pronounced Vy-dale-yuh) is status, and with its fame has come its nemesis: imitators. "The imitators are unscrupulous," says Walden. "I fully expect to hear somebody's packaging cabbages out there and calling them Vidalia onions...
...area whose inhabitants speak lyrically. Dick Walden, for example, momentarily dropping the subject of onions, will allow he is fond of fishing "those flatwoods rivers with the tea-colored water-not the big, muddy, silted ones coming down from the high country, taking a little more of Georgia to the sea every...
...Georgia general assembly apparently disagrees. When the growers got a bill introduced earlier this year defining the growing area of the Vidalia, "We got a fast lesson in practical politics," says the Chamber's Walden. "What happened is, growers in other parts of the state got to smelling that onion, and it got to smelling like money. By the time the legislature got through with it, the growing area included half the state." The legislation died...