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Much of the party simply cannot take Carter at face value. Show-biz analogies are reached for to define him. His frequent references to love remind derisive critics of that 1930s musical Of Thee I Sing, in which Presidential Candidate Wintergreen croons that "love is sweeping the country." To others, Carter summons the image of the plastic politician in the film Nashville who broadcasts but never appears onscreen. Yet to many others, he is a believable leader with eclectic policies. Carter welcomes the ordeal of the primaries because he knows he must prove himself. "I want to be tested...
...University draw capacity enrollment. Risk trippers are allowed to take only a blanket, sleeping gear, two candy and two meat bars. One survivor recalls that last year an eleven-member expedition to Garden Island for two weeks subsisted on 36 fish, 29 rabbits and three ducks, plus wild herbs, wintergreen and Euell Gibbons staples...
Heading the list of Blue's unacknowledged credits is Easy Rider, with all its patchwork imitations. The script concerns a sawed-off Arizona motorcycle cop named John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) who yearns to achieve style and respect by becoming a detective like Marve Poole (Mitchell Ryan). His goonish partner Zipper (Billy Green Bush) laughs at his aspirations, but their discovery of the body of a desert old-timer who may have been associated with some drug traffic gives Winter-green the chance to prove his stuff...
...surprise but his own, Wintergreen discovers that advancement means compromise and corruption, and that the world is mean, arbitrary and crazy. At the end, trying to off the seat of his motorcycle and dies, dazed and upright, sitting in the middle of a wilderness highway like a discarded puppet...
...these residents accurate judges? The commissioners tested themselves, sniffing wintergreen and amyl acetate (which smells like bananas) to see if they could tell the difference. They could. So they decided to give similar tests and to create a cadre of "trained noses." When a citizen complains about an odor, a jury of tested state employees will rush out to sniff and then decide if the law has been violated...