Word: trees
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When photographers are allowed to snap Jimmy Carter jogging, John Anderson swimming and Ronald Reagan riding horseback or climbing a tree barechested, the object is not simply to provide some lively pictures to spice up a dull campaign. The presidential contenders are not-so-subtly showing the electorate that they are hale and hearty, up to the physical rigors of the country's highest office...
...said Doc. 'Any day now the change will come. It's going to turn from hot to cold, and we can kill the hog that's ripe and have fresh meat to eat. Come one of these nights and we can wander down here and tree a nice possum. Old Jack Frost will be pinching things up. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. Hickory tree there will be yellow. Sweetgum red, hickory yellow ...' He went along rapping the tree trunks with his knuckle. 'Magnolia and liveoak never die. Remember that...
...potgrowers are fighting back. Some try to hide their sinsemilla stalks among tall sunflowers. One imaginative cultivator hung red Christmas-tree balls on his pot plants, trying to make them look like tomato plants from the air. The ruse did not work, because any cultivated ground in the middle of a forest attracts the suspicions of drug-enforcement officials. A few growers have even taken shots at the agents' low-flying planes, causing one casualty: a sheriff was wounded in the back while circling a marijuana patch in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles...
...stirring drumroll rises on the soundtrack, Judy Benjamin heads down a long tree-lined road, alone. She seems to have made a definite decision, but what is it? Where will she go? Back to the Army? For all her superficial self-confidence, she's the same directionless ninny she was at the beginning of the movie...
...care and tells Arthur, "You won't be bothered for speeding here." But Arthur lets the speedometer rest at 35. He's seen radar guns out in Arlington at 3 a.m., he tells the man in back. "Radar's a joke," the man replies, "You can catch a tree doing 40." Or a cab at 60. Arthur's had so many speeding tickets that he can't afford to insure his own car in Massachusetts. "They want $1100 on top of a $600 premium," he says. Another reason why Arthur doesn...