Word: popcorn
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...tall and usually managed to grab one of the coveted popcorn positions. My friend and I would take our first tray, stroll over to section one, eat popcorn, read the Black Panther--Stop the War Machine--Dump Johnson literature we had picked up earlier in the morning, and wait for the fans to arrive...
...there would be about 40 kids gathered around waiting for the guy to come out and dole out the concession jobs. (It was a lot like the dockside scene from On the Waterfront.) There was a real hierarchy, in the concession business, with the game programs the executive jobs, popcorn your basic white collar affair, and pennants serving as the low man on the totem pole...
...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...
...Gerald Ford and a lot of other people loved, the much-advertised and obvious product of the recent Time Magazine-reported craze about the straight-talking, poker-playing, president. It started at the Circle Theatre in Cleveland Circle, Brookline--one of the most art-gallery in the-lobby-ish, popcorn-at-a-dollar-a-kernel, fancy-carpeted moviehouses in town--yesterday...