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...council rented machines to make shaved ice, popcorn and cotton candy--though Kleyman said the $1,000 needed to rent equipment to make last year's popular fried dough wasn't worth...
...room was forced to say farewell to late night cups of cocoa, toasted bagels and microwave popcorn. Apparently the administration believes college students at one of the most prestigious institutions of learning in the country cannot be trusted to safely operate kitchen appliances. More than the loss of our warm snacks, I was disappointed by the University's lack of faith in their students' level of basic common sense...
...March 1998, Bill Clinton was enjoying a scheduled lunch with Nelson Mandela when an unscheduled visitor was suddenly invited in. It was none other than Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia's maverick ambassador to Washington. The prince gets around--Clinton had asked him over for a movie and popcorn at the White House--but here he seemed far afield. Yet as a bemused U.S. President sat and listened, Bandar suddenly began to press him on an unwelcome and delicate topic: Libya. Then Mandela joined...
...stumbled upon one of those frequent-flyer promotions in which airlines team with credit-card companies and other partners. The deal, since withdrawn, was this: buy 10 Healthy Choice products and get 500 miles--or 1,000 miles for purchases made before June 1999. Phillips tossed soup and popcorn into his basket like an end-of-the-world fanatic, but went apoplectic when he saw chocolate-fudge pudding cups at 25[cents] a pop. A mere $62.50 worth, he quickly calculated, would buy 25,000 miles...
...works as a private but also a social event. Movies on the VCR don't keep people from going to the multiplex, just as boxing on pay-per-view doesn't stop fans from craving ringside seats. The senses are a huge part of the experience. The smell of popcorn, the crush of bodies, the communal sense of anticipation and the space itself all add to the story of the entertainment. Spaces, architectural enclosures, shape our relation to an event. You can pray at home. But a church, mosque or synagogue gives prayer scale, grace and a heightened sense...