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...high-fuel foods. Despite the common belief that foods containing grease, caffeine and sugar provide a lift, the price of "cranking up" the body in the short term is the risk of having the body "crash" an hour later. As a snacking alternative, eat fruit, bagels, crackers and popcorn, which give the body a more consistent injection of energy...
...parents came to visit last month, bearing gifts of food. Three suitcases full of food, in fact, holding a 60-count box of instant fat-free hot chocolate packets, a box of 20 microwave popcorn packets, an oversized two-bag Cheerios box, a container of chocolate chip and Macadamia nut cookies, and a whole box of assorted dried soups. Not to mention the 1000 plastic plates...
...largest amount of food I ever saw Brad eat in one sitting was at a night game at Fenway Park, where he ordered a hot dog, popcorn, cracker jacks, pretzels and cotton candy. He ate them all. At the time I viewed the indulgence as 12-year-old consumer culture run amok; today, I wonder if the binge might not also have been triggered by the fact that for once that summer, Brad had access to large quantities of food at 9 p.m., after the effects of the Ritalin were beginning to wear off, but before he had received...
...learn to waltz, to swing. To cook my own meals. I always dreamed of driving across America, maybe seeing a baseball game at all 28 parks. Or just chilling for a month at my family's cabin in Michigan, walking into town at night for ice cream or popcorn. I kept putting it off because of internships and all. Now I realize I'll never have time--ever...
...thing that does get Lucas riled is criticism that dismisses Star Wars and some of his other films as mere popcorn or adrenaline movies, thrilling and technically adept but soulless. This line of thinking also lays blame at Lucas' door for the even more soulless likes of The Rock, along with responsibility for the so-called blockbuster mentality that currently plagues Hollywood. By way of a response, his publicists have even compiled statistics showing that Hollywood's ratio of "art films" to "blockbuster-type" movies has actually increased since...