Word: popcorn
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More buttered popcorn was sold at retail last month than in any,other month in world history, and most of it disappeared from circulation in the darkened caves of U.S. movie theaters. Surveying the technological development that set the corn rolling, the Russians formally announced that they had invented the thing first. A Chicago beanery produced the 3-D Special, and a Midwestern minister gave a sermon on "Prayer-the Third Dimension." Exuberant Cinemogul George Skouras kissed Pageanteer Mike Todd in public. Somebody else brought out a Polaroid lorgnette. "Whaddya mean, vulgar?" cried one movieman. "Isn't the public...
...Westcott charged that the cause of chlorophyll has been harmed by over-zealous manufacturers peddling chlorophyll popcorn and chlorophyll-impregnated baby pants. But he stuck to his guns: "We are only on the threshold of a full understanding of chlorophyll and of the values it may hold when it is properly applied...
...fine show, and Disney's techniques seem particularly suited to Barrie's nimble story. So those who have sampled the stage production will do well to savor the new product. Those who have never applauded for Tinkerbelle's life should brave the throng of popcorn munching gamins and see it before they grow up and it's too late...
...that he would in the role to a T. Yet most of his friends know him as "Uncle Tom." Perhaps it's because he likes to run sessions like a high level cocktail party-often in a student's room-with the waft of sherry in the air and popcorn crackling over a file. Or it may be his willingness to talk about his four children with just as much interest as on Latin American diplomacy. At any rate, McGann always enjoys chatting with students, although he is in the most feverish period of his academic career...
Pachinko-byo is an ailment new to the annals of medicine and peculiar to Japan. Its symptoms: blistered fingers, a sprained thumb and eyeballs that jiggle in their sockets like popcorn kernels tossed on to a hot griddle...