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...show set last year. It chronicled "the longest day" in the life of counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer (Sutherland)--24 hours in which he had to foil the assassination of a presidential candidate while also trying to save his own wife and daughter from kidnappers. The show combined popcorn-movie thrills with a complicated and innovative narrative (each episode was one hour in real time). And it confounded expectations right up to the end, when Bauer, after saving his daughter and the candidate, found his pregnant wife shot to death by a treacherous colleague...
...fried dough and popcorn lined the Charles River for this weekend’s Head of the Charles Regatta, many members of the Radcliffe crew team were sporting shirts to protest a new Ivy League rule mandating seven weeks of “dead time” for each sport during the academic year. The new policy, created last summer by the Ivy League presidents, requires that each sport set aside seven weeks when group practices, practice with coaches and supervised athletic conditioning are all prohibited. The policy intends to reduce the intensity of varsity sports and provide athletes with...
...undecided Greek letters will be the symbols of these new social domains, and their images will soon be scrawled on invitations slipped under doors across campus. One “society” promises to usher recruits into posh V.I.P. rooms; another looks to cultivate a homey atmosphere with popcorn and old movies. In a year when male final clubs have tempered their festive image, the number of female social clubs will soon equal the number of male final clubs. It’s a new social equation...
...group,” Carruthers says. “The three founders don’t know a majority of the girls.” But gradually the group is beginning to coalesce. In March, the members had brunch in the dining hall. One night they ate popcorn and watched Robin Hood: Men in Tights in the Claverly common room. A night of s’mores and hot chocolate rounded out their spring schedule...
Last Sunday, amid the ancient trees and proud Halls of Harvard Yard, carnival popcorn machines spewed the overwhelming smell of cooking canola oil and rows of port-a-potties stood ready to receive hundreds of impatient movie-goers. It was University President Lawrence H. Summers’ latest wholesome activity for the Harvard community: Movie Time. Even intermittent rain could not deter the fanatics, who regard watching Ferris Bueller to be a religious experience (especially when Matthew Broderick showers), the bored, who opted not to do their tutorial reading and, of course, the inevitable free-loader types who came...