Word: popcorned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...INVITATION was for a tree-trimming party. With Christmas fast approaching, it conjured up images of spruce and holly, punch and sugar cookies, and strings of popcorn and berries. All of these were, in fact, present when I arrived at Radcliffe President Matina Horner's house, but without their usual emotional accompaniment--the exuberance and communality that tends to infuse holiday gatherings. And as I left the party, lacking my accustomed share of "Christmas spirit." I began to wonder what had created such a feeling of hesitancy on an occasion which differed from countless others I had attended in only...
With mid new flavors available, U.S. popcorn sales explode
...used to be an oleaginous mulch that clogged the incisors at movie theaters. Today, like pasta, pizza and the humble potato, popcorn has gone gourmet. Or, at least, wild. Now, with a few of the dozens of new flavors available, it is possible to have an entire dinner composed of popcorn. After the cocktail hour (piña colada flavor with sour-cream-and-onion popcorn for hors d'oeuvres), the finger-fed meal features New England-clam-chowder popcorn, barbecue popcorn for entrees, fruit salad composed of strawberry, grape and cantaloupe popcorn and, for dessert, chocolate-fudge popcorn...
Contributor John Skow, who wrote this week's cover story, regards popcorn and Paul Newman as inseparable, twin treasures of the moviehouse. Skow was nonetheless surprised to find himself sitting in an office of Newman's Salad King Inc. as the actor blithely demonstrated his definitive technique for buttering popcorn. Recalls Skow: "He wielded his knife at a precisely calculated angle, wriggled it meticulously while splashing droplets of butter on everything in sight, and then invited me to try it." Sampling two brands of popcorn that Newman hoped to market, Skow and his host rejected both. "One option...
...Correspondent Denise Worrell. During the week that she spent with Newman, Worrell also watched him spellbind waiters at a San Francisco restaurant as he concocted his own salad dressing, rescue a stricken bee that had fallen on a patio table and, inevitably, jump up to prepare a bowl of popcorn. Says Worrell: "He is hyper and whimsical. But he wears his humor like armor; underneath, he is serious about his activism and his acting...