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...entirely clear how this ritual got started, but I remember that it definately began in the Union. maybe not specifically when Matt was hawking peanuts and popcorn during "Opening Day" day, but I remember that incident quite well. I ate in the now-defunct smoking room all year, and on "Opening Day" day, Matt was dressed in a red and blue striped uniform that said Harvard Dining Services or something on it with a big sack full of peanuts and popcorn. He stood in the front of the smoking room, screaming at full volume, "Peanuts! Popcorn! Get yer peanuts...
...close ties to Clinton have paid off handsomely. Veteran Washington lobbyist Anne Wexler hired Wright to represent such clients as ARCO and the American Forest and Paper Association. In one case, Wright reportedly lobbied Clinton on behalf of the paper group while sharing popcorn and watching a basketball game with him in the White House...
...course, little is completely new in this marketing strategy. Getting messages across to audiences that don't fully realize they are receiving them is as old as the subliminal spots for popcorn and soda that advertisers flashed on movie screens in the 1950s. More recently, for instance, mtv blended commercials for a Pizza Hut delivery service with its regular programming by showing pizzas arriving by horseback or out of the ocean for its video jockeys...
...From the researchers who brought you bad news about take-out Chinese food: the average "large" bag of movie-theater popcorn, made with supersaturated coconut oil, has as much fat as six Big Macs...
...passenger, Rondee Albert, made a pointof telling her son Benjamin "to be careful withhis popcorn" because the new train is "like amuseum...