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...YEARS AGO, eating popcorn at the opera would have been considered the ultimate in gauche. The sound of crunching kernels would have elicited a chorus of sneers from the rows of tiaras and tuxedos. Sourpussed dowagers, lowering their opera glasses, would stare icily at the boor who slipped by the ushers...
Behind the fun and froth was a hard sell. IBM unveiled a highspeed, high-power desktop model long referred to in the industry as "Popcorn." Officially named the PC AT (for advanced technology), the computer has at least twice the information-storage capacity of any other personal computer on the market. The firm also announced its first PC network, a system that will allow dozens of office workers to hook their computers together so they can use the same business data. In addition, IBM displayed a new program called Topview that lets a user split a computer screen into several...
...were just nice and convenient. Example: medicine cabinets that light up when touched. Still another: a hot-air popper for gourmet popcorn. Earlier models did not work with such popcorn because of extra moisture in the corn...
...camp, high-kitsch style create a spectular vehicle for Prince. The trappings and antics make for an entertaining change from smoother, more packaged summer fare. What one thinks of Prince, of course, is a debatable question of taste. The teenyboppers on my left, breathing heavily one minute, running for popcorn the next, "really, really loved him." The friend on my right looked pensive. "You know," he mused, "if Oscar Wilde were alive today, I think he'd be Prince...
Well, here I am at Camp Cinemuck. It's everything you promised me, and worse. I guess you figured that a place that calls itself "the summer home away from home for movie-mad children" would be perfect for a precocious kid who was never far from the popcorn stand or the VCR or the Late Show. So did I. But I was wrong. This place is like school, only with trees. The first thing, I come in and they hand me a bunch of old books about dead movie stars. "You got to brush up on your nostalgia...