Word: popcorneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerned that none of us ever drink of the demon rum, but he conveniently never mentioned anything else. I remember one particular night, as I lay in bed listening to my brothers talk to my mother on the telephone. They were telling her about how big barrelfuls of popcorn kept coming and that they were having a wonderful time. I slept through that evening's activities, but my father had a very long night washing out bedsheets and the like. My mother was a smart woman...
...townspeople gather to drive off greedy Dr. Terminus and to sing a big production number to let Elliott know they think he's an O.K. dragon. Like most of the other big song-and-dance routines, this one offers a good opportunity to line up for more popcorn. Otherwise, Pete's Dragon is likable fantasy. There will be adult viewers who would like to borrow Elliott for a while in order to scare a little appreciation and respect from an uncaring world. John Skow
...Puck do everything but scratch his stomach and laugh like Santa Claus. "He doesn't have a wide range of expressions," says Rambaldi, "because probably very great advances in civilization would gradually bring people to lose much of their emotional nature." Just one question: Will they still eat popcorn...
...film's doctor-patient scenes with flashbacks that detail Alan's past. Despite a nude appearance by Jenny Agutter and cameo performances by such fine actors as Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews and Eileen Atkins, Equus' digressions are little more than excuses to fetch popcorn...
...majestic city had many teams, and many great players. There was Sir Joe of Broadway, the first of York's swinging athletes, who possessed a wealth of talent on the football field. At times, though, it seemed that Joe liked popcorn and aftershave better than football; but the scribes still praised him, for he was a winner, (And besides, all of York's fair maidens loved...