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...comparisons will not stick here, because Solaris is an unsettling, spooky and unfamiliar world. Or put it this way: You know how it feels to come out of a movie that creates a compelling, comfortable reality and to return into the yapping, yawning crowd, step in the stale popcorn and walk into the unalluring street, still as noisy and hot as before? Solaris produces just the opposite effect. You'll be glad when the lights go back...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Star Trek, Russian Style | 8/17/1976 | See Source »

...destiny gives us the wonderful choice between Jimmy Carter and Ronnie Reagan, history may well mark this election as peanuts v. popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jun. 7, 1976 | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...afternoon Vargas shouted "cherry pie" in Burbank, the customers arrived to find a calliope thumping out Thunder and Blazes, a searchlight probing the sky. and an atmosphere redolent of popcorn, frankfurters and musky jungle game. The caged tigers roared, the chimps snarled and the wild, 700-lb. Syrian bears snuffled and muttered about the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: The Circus: Escaping into the Past | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

Nearly 250 Med area workers took time off from their lunch breaks yesterday afternoon to drink lemonade, munch popcorn, listen to live entertainment and to otherwise celebrate this week's NLRB ruling, which granted a new lease on life to a Medical Area union...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: District 65: Gets A New Lease on Life | 5/14/1976 | See Source »

...greenroom, partially because of his lanky height, partially because of the flock of people who rush to shake his hand. But each actor is surrounded by his own crowd; they smile in a daze, drained and wet. Some of them are on the verge of tears, others just eat popcorn, saying the "empty feeling" won't hit them until the sober Sunday morning after...

Author: By Mercedes A. Laing, | Title: BEHIND THE GREENROOM DOOR | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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