Popcorn Kernel, popcorn movie, a kernel of truth

The latest episode of Fact Checker, from The Washington Post takes on the tall tale of President Trump’s Cincinnati "success."

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What's the story with Donald Trump and Cincinnati?

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Fact Checker, from The Washington Post 的最新一集出爐了。

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The president has a habit of telling tales based on a kernel of truth. His history with Cincinnati is no different.

Predicting that within five years the world’s filmmakers and distributors will all be “leaning forward to the Chinese market,” Mr. Zhang cautioned that the Chinese industry needed to place less emphasis on profits and “popcorn movies” and noted a lack of current Chinese films that were “full of imagination,” as well as good novels and stories to use as sources.

"Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them." — Orville Redenbacher with another use for tape

popcorn movie (plural popcorn movies)

1. (film, idiomatic) A motion picture without serious dramatic content, a weighty message, or intellectual depth, which serves simply as enjoyable entertainment.  [quotations ▼]

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kernel ˈkəːn(ə)l/ noun 1. a softer, usually edible part of a nut, seed, or fruit stone contained within its shell. "the kernel of a walnut" synonyms: seed, grain, heart, core, stone; More 2. the central or most important part of something. "this is the kernel of the argument"