Word: popcorneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some places, the film has become almost a loss leader just to get the customer to the popcorn stand. Martin Newman, executive vice president of New York's Century Theaters, figures that "concessions can mean the difference between life and death." At last week's NATO conclave, where the Hollywood moviemakers were practically invisible, there was a whole midway of barking concessionaires trying to sell the exhibitors the latest House o' Weenies rotisseries, Pronto-Burger rigs and even microwave ovens for veal Parmesan. After all, the average drive-in patron, according to one study, pops...
...Frozen Popcorn. By concentrating on the big, highly visible wage and price decisions, the board might get by with only a relatively small staff of lawyers, investigators and economists; some estimates go as low as 500 employees. Since it would not be applying rigid controls on all wages and prices, the board could escape some of the niggling questions on which policers of the freeze have been forced to rule. One such ruling classified unpopped popcorn as an agricultural product exempt from the freeze-but held popped corn to be a processed food, and thus frozen...
...Angeles doctor takes old X-ray pictures, adds a little yarn edging and creates startling place mats. In Research Engineer Peter Gottlieb's West Los Angeles home, one child sleeps happily beneath a headboard made of bright cartons of Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a beloved popcorn product. Or consider Dr. Richard Gieser's sparkling decor in Wheaton, Ill.: his sofa is an old bathtub on legs, with one side cut away, lined with pillows. His favorite chair is another tub, upended. It has, Mrs. Gieser says, "a nestlike quality...
Harvard wing Dan DeMichele didn't seem too worried, though, as he munched his popcorn in section 2 last night. "We're going to fill the net." he predicted. "We haven't done that for quite a while. Maybe eight or nine...
Kris Johnson, 23, an electronics technician in Redmond, Wash., is working only four days a week now, and his income has dropped 15%. He and his wife have given up moviegoing in favor of getting together with friends for beer and popcorn, and the Johnsons are growing a vegetable garden to cut food bills. Johnson gave his wife a choice of giving up either bowling or driving to reduce expenses; she chose to continue bowling, so last week he sold the family's 1966 Galaxie, keeping a 1962 Buick. "I think this is the time to liquidate whatever...