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...Zonker "flaky"? Only "a spaghetti-haired specimen of the drug culture"? Zonker Harris is the most appealing character of Doonesbury's world, the most fully developed character, and (one suspects) in personality the alter...
...scene of rampant drugs and sex. The results of all the tomfoolery at Walden Puddle soon appeared as a TIME cover story on campus life called "The New Hedonism" (see cut). Officials at the local college were promptly besieged by complaints from alumni, and a dean called Zonker Harris to explain. Zonker blamed the exaggerated story on TIME's reporter and editors: "They're just jealous, sir-they missed out on communal living...
...Zonker Harris, a spaghetti-haired specimen of the drug culture who carries on Socratic dialogues with his philodendron, gets busted for possession, discovers that the prosecutor has bugged his room, and tells the hidden microphone: "I hate grass. I just get high on life! And America...
...life figures. On occasion Doonesbury has gone anachronistic: in a Bicentennial flashback, Paul Revere's feminist apprentice yearns to be a "Minuteperson." In addition, the strip frequently becomes an illuminated roman à clef sprinkled with such celebrities as Journalist Hunter S. Thompson Jr., who is thinly disguised as Zonker Harris' dope-eating Uncle Duke. Duke last month was named U.S. envoy to China after a Senate confirmation hearing overlooking massive corporate payoffs to him. Thompson denies that he is insulted by this unflattering characterization, but recently told a friend, "If I ever catch that little bastard...
...assault by mistakenly calling one of his black assailants a honky. ("I got mixed up. I'm new at this," he explained.) Champions of drug-law reform might be cheered that Trudeau mentions hallucinogens casually and frequently in the strip. But hard-liners can recall a sermonette by Zonker Harris after he was busted for possession: "It may or may not be wrong, but it sure is against...