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...drinking without distraction, the Hong Kong offers an interesting variety of Polynesian drinks and international beers in a second-floor lounge. The house speciality is a salad bowl full of fruit juice, rum, and God knows what else. It comes equipped with long straws and plent of stale popcorn...

Author: By Paul M. Barre, | Title: Off-Campus Fun | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...More typical is the practice of distributing free drug samples to physicians, which the doctors then sell to patients for a profit. "It's the most effective incentive for overprescribing that I've seen," said Silverman. 'These people hand out toxic drugs as if they were popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Double Standard on Drugs? | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

Wednesday night I pulled up my chair in the Union with my bag of popcorn in hand and prepared to watch the Celtics take a 2-0 lead in their series with the 76ers I was the picture of confidence, the idea of a Celtics' loss never crossed my mind...

Author: By Becky Hariman, | Title: Celtics-Sixers; Here We Go Again | 5/14/1982 | See Source »

...relationships are painful, messy and usually disastrous, only to be pursued because "we need the eggs," everyone in the theater looks at his neighbor. Those in the company of a romantic interest ruefully admit how likely things are to end badly, those who don't have to share their popcorn wistfully wish they could...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Allen's Power Failure | 4/27/1982 | See Source »

...rejects toxins and triangles, and even people who jog, and meditates stubbornly on chocolate nut crunch, red meat and salted popcorn. She is intensely aware that it is impossible to smoke while the hands are bound across the chest by hot herb-soaked sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tucson: Balancing the Triangle of Life | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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