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...hard to believe this is happening: the game, the Americans cheering for the Romanians, the peanut vendors, the officials almost killed by a flying puck, the people from Rochester, the buck popcorn, the announcement of the U.S. -Norway score, the ice, the lights, the political implications, the meaning, the flash bulbs. How much did your ticket cost...
...screen fills with hundreds of colored shapes spinning like a crayola volcano dancing the twist. The Electric Horseman, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, is not scheduled to start for ten minutes yet the balding accountant three seats down already has his right hand in bucket of popcorn; his other inching up his wife's sweater, his eyes aimed at the screen. The color pattern repeats itself on the black screen, revolving twice with a one and a half twist like a lasarium with hiccups. Everyone in the theater, not just the accountant, watches the screen as if something were...
...movies. Leading the pack is a six-hour miniseries, The French Atlantic Affair, which will have to face such competition as A Bridge Too Far (NBC) and Silver Streak (CBS). ABC just may win. Its mini-series aims so low that it does not even qualify as popcorn entertainment; the show is best watched while chewing sugarless...
Innovation means more than just new air-blown popcorn poppers or home computer games for a society already overrun with gadgets. America's dismal economic record over the past decade largely reflects the decline of research and new product development. Growth in productivity, which measures a worker's output per hour, depends upon new machines and industrial processes that help the worker produce more. While U.S. productivity increased at a rate of 3.1% annually from 1955 to 1965, it increased at only 2.3% from 1965 to 1973. So far this year, productivity has been declining at an annual...
Even with Soles, though, the first half of the movie is tiresome. As a new principal, with two obnoxiously unfunny hall monitors in tow, takes over Vince Lombardi and tries to restore order, you might consider buying popcorn or ducking into the theater next door to watch well-scrubbed adolescent girls in Peppermint Soda. Just make sure you're back in your seat by the time Joey Ramone snaps, "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" and launches into "Blitzkrieg Bop," because the ten-minute Ramones set is the movie's best part...