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These programs being typical of "adult" programming, what is one to do? After all, even the intellectually inclined feel occasional craving for mental popcorn in the privacy of the living room. For those who find themselves in this situation, there is a fallback position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: The New Season, Part II | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

Broadway Joe does use the Hamilton-Beach popcorn popper, the La-Z-Boy reclining chair, the Arrow shirts and other items that he conspicuously consumes on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: More Truth in Advertising | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...debut of Henry Aaron, and the stellar pitching of EJ Tiante, your boasts would have to be of a modified variety, as in "I saw the backsides of the row of people in front of me who gave Tony C. a standing ovation. Three had checkered underwear, one spilled popcorn on me when she went to clap and forgot that her left hand was occupied, and one had his back pocket picked by an usher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Savoir-Faire | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...other day that is so dirty I have to close my eyes when I sing it." Moreover, she wholeheartedly endorses The Pill. Married at 13, she says, "I had four kids before I was 18. If I had had the Pill, I would've been popping it like popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 3, 1975 | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...everything but sell popcorn last Friday night. Its fourth annual Midnight Concert, a late-night supper of light, easily-digestible music, strove too hard for broad mass appeal. The program--the most commercial work of Benjamin Britten, the showiest piece of Debussy, and one of the plainest concertii of Mozart--was all butter and no salt...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Murky Midnights | 12/18/1974 | See Source »

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