Word: popcorns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restrict it in military bases and federal buildings. As the Spokane Chronicle's John J. Lemon said of a similar ordi nance that had been proposed in Washington State, "The next victims of such rule making may be whistlers, gum chewers, bone crackers, dandruff scratchers, lint pickers and popcorn eat ers." Not to mention tooth pickers, gar lic eaters, liquor imbibers, belchers, non-bathers and puffers of pot at rock concerts...
British and Indian waiters glided around the room serving iced American cocktails. Bowls of popcorn, peanuts and potato chips decorated tables. A U.S. history class from the American School in London filed past. Uninitiated visitors to London wondered where to find bonfires--it was Guy Fawkes Day. Long-separated Harvard graduates found each other. The entire American economic history faculty of the prestigious London School of Economics was seen in one place at one time. The Embassy's pay telephone box was found to be out of order. An Arab with a heavy accent wondered aloud whether Bailyn's accent...
Randy Howze, who plays Old Woman Pus--the prostitute or floorwasher--handles her smutty dialogue as easily as the fat cop spews his. She suspends a brazen account of her husband's set-to with constipation by rummaging bemusedly through the garbage or tranquilly scattering popcorn at the birds and Old Man Boyle. She coordinates her fickle behavior with the theme of insanity. Howze uses her spindly body delicately. She shapes her mouth into a crooked leer. And Old Woman Pus's complaint that her head is full of cobwebs emphasizes her resemblance to a spider with its graceful agility...
...fourth quarter I would sit down with my empty rack and watch the game begin. That was the best thing about Ivy football--nothing of consequence ever seems to happen before the fourth quarter. So while everyone in the stadium had spent three quarters sitting around eating popcorn I had earned the tidy sum of $8 and hadn't missed a thing. Very enterprising...
...finally hung up my popcorn rack and starched jacket in the tenth grade but at opening game freshman year I remember identifying more closely with my white coated cohorts than the tweed and topsider crowd which had plagued my wonder years...