Word: popcorns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debut of Henry Aaron, and the stellar pitching of EJ Tiante, your boasts would have to be of a modified variety, as in "I saw the backsides of the row of people in front of me who gave Tony C. a standing ovation. Three had checkered underwear, one spilled popcorn on me when she went to clap and forgot that her left hand was occupied, and one had his back pocket picked by an usher...
...other day that is so dirty I have to close my eyes when I sing it." Moreover, she wholeheartedly endorses The Pill. Married at 13, she says, "I had four kids before I was 18. If I had had the Pill, I would've been popping it like popcorn...
...everything but sell popcorn last Friday night. Its fourth annual Midnight Concert, a late-night supper of light, easily-digestible music, strove too hard for broad mass appeal. The program--the most commercial work of Benjamin Britten, the showiest piece of Debussy, and one of the plainest concertii of Mozart--was all butter and no salt...
...there has been a crash. Huge volumes of black, grimy smoke pouring towards us have caused the drivers to slow up on the track. The source, however, is the bog. Stranded in the middle of the mob is the charred hulk of a 40-seat Greyhound bus, bursting like popcorn as the children stone it. The burning continues through the Oldtimers' Race, a special side event this afternoon. Spinning clods of mud in the waning light, the motorcycles continue their catatonic sorties through the now near-solid crowd...
WHILE I WAS growing up, I thought that films were just for fun. Going to the movies on Saturday afternoons was a big treat. Some fantasy, a little greasy popcorn, and a couple of hours of dark anonymity, all at pre-inflation prices. Once in a while, I'd learn something interesting from an animal movie, but I didn't go to the theater to learn--learning was strictly a five-day-a-week job. Most Americans do go to the movies just to have fun, to escape from sordid reality, to see their fantasies played out in Technicolor...