Word: mulch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to be an oleaginous mulch that clogged the incisors at movie theaters. Today, like pasta, pizza and the humble potato, popcorn has gone gourmet. Or, at least, wild. Now, with a few of the dozens of new flavors available, it is possible to have an entire dinner composed of popcorn. After the cocktail hour (piña colada flavor with sour-cream-and-onion popcorn for hors d'oeuvres), the finger-fed meal features New England-clam-chowder popcorn, barbecue popcorn for entrees, fruit salad composed of strawberry, grape and cantaloupe popcorn and, for dessert, chocolate-fudge popcorn...
...Poltergeist, who never turn off their television set, he means it. He has no quarrel with subdivisions, polyester, freeways, patio living, junk food for belly or mind, or people who sometimes seem to be cassette-recorded copies of each other. His lively mind grew out of such a mulch...
...RESIDENTS of the decaying Hotel Baltimore sit in the lobby all day long, waiting for the end. While the wrecking ball has yet to demolish the once-grand lodging house, the hotel's human mulch pile has already begun rotting amid the vinyl sofas and plastic chairs...
This is my first time here at the end of the Riverside line, and it does not take long to realize that the name "garden" is hopelessly inappropriate. Unless it refers to a terrarium somebody forgot about for three years so that everything inside it has rotted, providing mulch for all the worst fungus and scumcrawlers in God's imagination. Everything is painted in aggressive tempera paints, greens and reds as flat as a Boston accent, and a horrible school-bus-yellow. I don't have to tell you what school-bus-yellow means in this town. I am beginning...