Movie snack

Usage examples of popcorn.

Meg said, dumping a box of microwave popcorn and a plastic bag of birdseed into the bottom of the grocery cart.

But it was hard not to feel, as Michael left the bedroom and returned with a box of microwavable popcorn upon which Paul Newman grinned iconographically, then spooned up against me while I decided whether or not popcorn was, indeed, what I wanted, that in certain critical matters, my body still worked.

Chief of Surgery Burgess, dying a slow, half-century death in this city where reading span is sorely stretched by the instructions on microwave popcorn, instantly imagines that in Kraft he has found a kindred literate spirit, a simile son.

Flossie and Lapp bounced around in back like a couple of starstruck adolescents, munching on popcorn and loudly sipping on a bottle of Southern Comfort as they giggled nonstop over private -- usually risque -- jokes.

Moscovitz came home and started yelling at us for letting Pavlov in their room and eating popcorn in their bed.

Dondi Snayheever could still get plenty of free popcorn at the Slots of Fun on the Strip.

As the hunter and struthio circled, a third clown rolled a popcorn cart into the ring.

The hunter stopped, bought a bag of popcorn, and began to eat as the struthio caught up.

We went to the movie this afternoon, and I had a jumbo box of popcorn and a supersized soda.

The noble fir on its stand in the corner had been strung with lights and popcorn, but it was still only partly decorated, and the box of ornaments that Bader had bought was on the floor nearby, opened and overturned, its contents --glass balls and brass snowflakes, wooden figures, china candy canes, silver icicles and paper stars--all spilled out in a jumble on the braided rug.

The schoolchildren came to Lake in the Clouds by special invitation on the night before the recital to practice their singing, and to make popcorn balls, sampling extensively as they went.

I duck from beneath the spastic neon of a porno parlour, spotlit and anonymous, and there she is, eating popcorn or chestnuts from a paper cone.

Gerhardt Schtitt and deLínt and their depressed prorectors had had to sit eating butterless popcorn through only one cartridge of one B.

Later, after he had gone to sleep, Mary Catherine curled up on the living room sofa with a bag of microwave popcorn, rewound "Election One," and watched it.

I've wondered from time to time if Tony and Ned's father ever really needed to talk about it - I mean on some late weekday evening when things at the barracks were at their slowest, guys cooping upstairs, other guys watching a movie on the VCR and eating microwave popcorn, just the two of them downstairs from all that, in Tony's office with the door shut.