Word: popcorned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food is standard ballpark fare: hotdogs, popcorn, Coca-Cola and, especially, beer. The beer in Sarasota may be no better than beer anywhere else, but it is served in a unique fashion--by an operatic vendor. "Be the first to quench your thirst!" sings the salesman. "C'mon, you can strike out," he serenades the Red Sox. No one can recall the last singing vendor at Fenway...
...York has Greenwich Village for weird, farout movies and revivals, Cambridge has the Orson Welles, and Harvard has, well, its house film societies. From Mather House to North House, the popcorn flows and the movie shows almost every weekend night...
...NEVER POSSIBLE to acknowledge every one of the year's memorable performances, but this year's list of Academy Award nominations, released last week by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences makes one wonder if the members of the Academy have been falling asleep over their popcorn boxes for the last 12 months. The list of nominees in the four major acting categories (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress) as well as the Best Director category is distinguished by the absence of several rather prominent names...
...military service during the war. This Rambo coalition, known as the "war wimps," have become the dominant voice of American foreign policy in the 1980s. Having lost the war in Vietnam, they are now winning it on the movie screens, much to the bemusement of the popcorn chewing hoi polloi. Jack Newfield, who originally exposed Stallone and the Reaganistas as "war wimps" in The Village Voice, pondered, "Why [aren't] these bullies by proxy at least inhibited by a guilty conscience?" Certainly when one is wined and dined, lavished with praise by the nation's most prestigious academic institution...
Blair, apparently not rattled by the plastic Pepsi bottles--each containing a handful of popcorn kernels--that the 5000 fans shook throughout the game, recorded 27 saves while surrendering only a pair of second period goals to lead the Crimson...