Word: popcorneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tall and usually managed to grab one of the coveted popcorn positions. My friend and I would take our first tray, stroll over to section one, eat popcorn, read the Black Panther--Stop the War Machine--Dump Johnson literature we had picked up earlier in the morning, and wait for the fans to arrive...
...there would be about 40 kids gathered around waiting for the guy to come out and dole out the concession jobs. (It was a lot like the dockside scene from On the Waterfront.) There was a real hierarchy, in the concession business, with the game programs the executive jobs, popcorn your basic white collar affair, and pennants serving as the low man on the totem pole...
...Gerald Ford and a lot of other people loved, the much-advertised and obvious product of the recent Time Magazine-reported craze about the straight-talking, poker-playing, president. It started at the Circle Theatre in Cleveland Circle, Brookline--one of the most art-gallery in the-lobby-ish, popcorn-at-a-dollar-a-kernel, fancy-carpeted moviehouses in town--yesterday...
These programs being typical of "adult" programming, what is one to do? After all, even the intellectually inclined feel occasional craving for mental popcorn in the privacy of the living room. For those who find themselves in this situation, there is a fallback position...
Broadway Joe does use the Hamilton-Beach popcorn popper, the La-Z-Boy reclining chair, the Arrow shirts and other items that he conspicuously consumes on television...